EES border checks

Question. How do illegal immigrants cross these borders? Are they not affected?

my cousin's sister in law travelled from Jersey to Birmingham this week. Problems with entering. All pages of the passport had to be copied and talks about requiring a VISA were mentioned! . in the end the matter was resolved but it was not a quick resolution .

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Ashcombe

We came through Ouisreham (Caen) on Monday, 12th October, following a ferry crosing and there are no procedures being implemented ther yet although I was concerned that we could be delayed on arrival if that had been the case.

Were you in a car?
The checks at Caen are on footies.

Yes, we were travelling by car and cleared the port within minutes of docking.

Does it make the whole ID debate moot?
If border authorities have iris scan and fingerprints?
It does seem to back-up the theory that the anti-ID card people are saying. No eID, no travel?

Landed in Catania Sicily and no problems but new machinery not installed yet !

Arrived in Malta on Wednesday evening.
Passports checked and fingerprints taken. No hassle.

My D comes back from Paris on €* every Thursday afternoon// evening to see clients and goes back on Friday evening.
She has had no trouble and hopefully as the malarkey (or at least the second two questions) has been paused, she hopes to be fine until they move back to London in 2026.

We’ve just been both ways through Le Shuttle (Folkestone/Calais) and there was just the usual perusal of passports, nowt else.

Recently experienced these checks arriving at Palma. Very easy and quite rapid. The instructions are clear and there are people to hand to help should there be a problem.

It's proving too much trouble.
Just now .....
French authorities are pausing the EES questions for travellers in UK.
Questions, especially at kiosks, were feared to cause confusion; change affects ferries, Eurostar and Eurotunnel.

We're flying to Málaga in November.
We've been told it may take a bit longer at border control there as we will have our biometric data, ie a photograph of our face, and four fingerprints, collected.
This only happens once and children under 12 don't need to give fingerprints.

I'm assuming it will be the same as going into the USA. It's not a big issue if you have got the correct paperwork.

Ashcombe

We came through Ouisreham (Caen) on Monday, 12th October, following a ferry crosing and there are no procedures being implemented ther yet although I was concerned that we could be delayed on arrival if that had been the case.

Were you in a car?
The checks at Caen are on footies.

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We came through Ouisreham (Caen) on Monday, 12th October, following a ferry crosing and there are no procedures being implemented ther yet although I was concerned that we could be delayed on arrival if that had been the case.

There are one or two YouTube videos where people have tried this out. Very few airports (no idea how many sea ports) have the equipment for the automated system yet, and those who do are still not all up and running flawlessly. a
Apparently it is very quick.

As far as I know, this doesn't affect me as I now have an EU passport as well as my British one. I just have to remember which passport to present at which border.I

I have been through the procedure in the States though, and it was fairly painless.