Passport control at EU airports

Brian Marwood

Brian Marwood

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When flying into EU airports, do you now join the non-EU passport control queues which are generally massive or can you still go through the automated gates for chipped passports?

Is it the same for Eurostar too?
 
When we went to Greece we went through non-EU control. Note: you can also buy fags for non-eu countries making them much cheaper although limited in number
 
NYboro said:
Pretty obvious, I would have thought - the UK is not part of the EU.
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It is but I thought I read a few months ago that some airports/countries were considering changing things for UK travellers. Either opening a different lane or allowing them through the automated gates.
 
The Q is generally affected most by the amount of staff or machines on at the airport,as well as the time that you fly, which country you go to etc, whether there are machines on at all.

I have had experiences where the non-EU Q was shorter than the EU queue. And in non-EU countries it is just a case of availability.
 
I think the 'logic' goes that it is the EU punishing us for leaving, which shows we were right to leave, but there are still no consequences of leaving, like what we said.
 
JFK introduced those machines a few years ago. The first time I came back I thought it was great to be straight through. What I didn't realise was that they had just added an extra layer - we still had to queue up to show the documents to immigration, now with a nice piece of paper to show it had all been scanned.
 
Lefty said:
I think the 'logic' goes that it is the EU punishing us for leaving, which shows we were right to leave, but there are still no consequences of leaving, like what we said.
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Yes, that naughty EU, applying it's rules, the rules we were part of setting up
 
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