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[LockieP]

We went through Alicante in January & after 3 attempts of logging my fingerprints at first registration the machine spat me out & I had to go through manual stamping.
Alicante last week I was asked if I’d registered & as I hadn’t I went to the registration machines. On putting in my passport the machine said to go to an e-gate (no fingerprints taken). At the e-gate it was the usual procedure & I was in. So it seems that my fingerprints must have been taken back in January.
Leaving on Saturday was painless.

On a side note I’ve read today that the UK are introducing facial recognition for entry. Trialling it at E Mids & a few others then to Gatwick & some of the other bigger/busier airports.

 

[Kritou]

Why do uk border force care how long your friend has been abroad?
Meanwhile
Inbound menorca ees operates after a fashion
I registered but not asked for fingerprints
Wife was and after 5 mins trying to get machine to register hers the helpful attendant just waved her on to next check with me
Outbound quick trip thru for photo no prints or dates stamped

I have no idea why BorderForce would be interested - can only think it is local thing as he departed from LPL as well, maybe also “of interest” with the amount of travelling he does?… Certainly nothing was said when departing Malaga. Interestingly his wife who was with him and had a few more available EU days was waved through

 

[jonnie comet]

Ibiza* two weeks ago.

Wife and I stood at adjacent EES machines. On reading my passport I was told to go straight to the Egates - no registering required. My wife on the other hand had to go through the whole registering process/fingerprints etc, then told to go to the Egates.

Now then, this is the fourth airport that my wife and I have travelled through (always together) since the EES was introduced - Faro, Palma, Malaga and Ibiza. Due to machines not being in use or simply being waved through, Ibiza was the first time that we have actually been required to register.....or NOT in my case. I've had my photograph taken at Egates, but I have yet to be fingerprinted at any airport. We both used the Egates when leaving Ibiza, no problems.

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* - Ibiza airport. The calmest, most hassle free airport, that we have used in years.

 

[Wapping]

40 minute queue at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport for non-EU citizens to be processed and allowed entry. We were lucky that we were on the only aeroplane arriving at that time at that terminal or it would doubtless have been longer.