grumpygit
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Brexit LIVE: Spain Italy France and Greece may copy Portugal to axe 'third nation' status
Linky pls.....
It's also beginning to look at though EU member states always were free to control their own borders when it comes to third countries. I hope this doesn't cause much mental anguish amongst readers of the Daily Excrete.
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The word "gullible" springs to mind.Are you saying people were lied to?
But if they were, why did they believe the lies?
Let me hasten to give your excellent post an approving thumbs-up before the thread gets locked! ?Any reduction of friction in travel is good (for all legal travellers and the receiving/host country). As pointed out by some, however, the nub of the issue totally remains, which is the rediculous 90 days in 180. Of course, it is totally within the scope of the UK government to show effort and make headway on this matter so citizens of the UK have at least equality of opportunity and access with European citizens visiting the UK. Alas, they've done bugger all for its citizens, as per usual. The well-being of our existence both in the UK and Europe remains less than it was (indeed in practically every sphere of activity I can list)...So many lives unnecessarily ruined and way too many ill- informed, blinkered, passive citizens who are accepting of all the crap of which we are on the wrong end.
Don't think there is a database at the moment though promised for later this year?Just quicker through passport control at airports. Although passport not stamped using e gates, the clock's still ticking in the database.
Don't think there is a database at the moment though promised for later this year?
Have used my Portuguese temp. residency to avoid stamping in EU countries for transit purposes, albeit not using e-gates, on a couple of ocassions and none have scanned my passport on entry.
However our passports are scanned so they know when we arrived but not sure there is an EU wide system that links arrival and departures in different EU countries.
It's also beginning to look at though EU member states always were free to control their own borders when it comes to third countries. I hope this doesn't cause much mental anguish amongst readers of the Daily Excrete.
Of course for those of us arriving on a boat this makes zero difference to anything, and UK nationals are still limited to 90/180.
EU Border Control seems a bit shambolic. When we drove out from England in November, we held out our new Greek residency permits at the French control point in Dover. Not interested! They stamped our passports anyway. Returning from Greece four months later, we feared French border control in Calais would tell us we had been in EU too long, and dream up some extortionate penalty we'd have to fight. But they didn't even open our passports, just waved us through.