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Fr J Hackett
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Ah well even if I could persuade my wife that's another country off the list.
Irish Rover
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Fr J Hackett
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Wife = Politics Me I don't queue for 4 hours.
Irish Rover
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You need to click the link. Delays are in backward places like la France not here in Türkiye where we have a very efficient passport control system.
Fr J Hackett
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Ah realised you are talking about European airports, apologies. However still applies to Türkiye my wife won't go.
Irish Rover
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All the more reason for you to come
Fr J Hackett
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I enjoyed my holidays in Kas and the locals similarly the 3 days I spent in Istanbul.
lustyd
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I'm baffled at why there isn't an option to go to a ferry port or airport in Britain and do the various bits while it's quiet. We applied for and got French visas in December and had out biometrics taken. I asked if that fulfilled the EES requirement and got a solid NON in reply despite being the exact same checks with the same hardware and fully linked to our passports.
I don't agree with the biometrics and electronic border nonsense but since it's a done deal we may as well make it as painless as possible. That said, I suspect the people who pushed for it want borders as painful as possible so I guess they're winning.
I don't agree with the biometrics and electronic border nonsense but since it's a done deal we may as well make it as painless as possible. That said, I suspect the people who pushed for it want borders as painful as possible so I guess they're winning.
DJE
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In Norway at Christmas they were taking face scans and fingerprints as well as stamping passports. About 90 minute queue getting in at Oslo where it is normally 10 or 15 minutes. I had been hopeful that we would be able to use e-gates once we had been scanned into the system but there was no sign of a separate queue for those who have previously been scanned so I don't see it getting any better for a long time yet.
Our son entered Schengen at Schipol on the same day and wasn't scanned.
lustyd
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That's frustrating. I'm hoping that when we enter at Dieppe (fingers crossed) we can choose a time when the queue is smaller as we won't be on the ferry
Fr J Hackett
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I just hope that there is a separate small queue for EU nationals.
Davy_S
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We have gone straight through at Tenerife airport, simply because they dont use the new system when it gets very busy, at times tourists have had a 2 hour queue using the new scan and fingerprint system, so they switch them off if a few flights arrive at once.
henhan
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Appears that it only applies to non-Schengen nationals
Ian.S
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They don’t do that in Lanzarote, which has resulted in 2 hour queues for some people and unfortunately a British man died of a heart attack whilst queuing just yesterday.
wallacebob
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My trip thro’ Alicante was very straightforward after Christmas. The only people having issues didn’t look at terminal, instead chatting to their family. How can you get a face scan if you’re not looking? Similarly, finger print scan needs you to hold your 4 fingers over a screen, not fidget like a loon. I’ll be interested if I need to still get passport stamp next month.
Exiting Spain was slower; again, due to operator error rather than system.
Exiting Spain was slower; again, due to operator error rather than system.
