New EU passport & biometric entry requirements

[Niigata Jack]

Well, I hope you get in & out ok but you will almost certainly have to have your prints & facial scan done and the size of any queues will depend on how many others will also need to have their biometrics done while those that have already done so will probably wizz through the egates. If you were struggling to remember your destination airport though, I won't ask where you're staying

I just booked mun, wasn't concerned on we we'd fly to, I knew it wouldn't be Palma

Staying in Praia Da Rocha area.

 

[Cooperman]

I will be back in Bologna on 19th April so let’s see how hooked up it is then. If it doesn’t work at airport perimeter then we can forget a wider joined up solution.

Back through Bologna this evening. Only one route to follow, so up the stairs to the room where the new machines are located, passport scanned + photo and fingerprints. I asked if this was necessary on basis of me only being here a week or so ago, and was met with the answer of "every time". The passport machine screen said that I needed to proceed to a manual booth (as it did last time), so back down the stairs, into a queue for a gate agent where once again a second photo and set of fingerprints were taken. And finally, a stamp in the passport. It was laid out a little better this time and from what I could see, and if my initial passport scan had not driven me to a manual booth, I would have been filtered into a queue for the automatic scan. Either way, the EES part and country immigration are two different things, your route through immigration (person in a booth or an automatic scan) is dependent on what happens when you attempt the EES part. Good luck to those travelling over the summer with young families.

 

[Darran]

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