Apr 8, 2015, 2:28 am
Last edit by: stut
The UK will reintroduce immigration exit controls on 8th Apr 2015. These were previously abolished in 1998, and rely on carriers checking travel documents (passports or ID cards) of departing travellers. This is already in place for air travel and is today being introduced for ports and Eurotunnel.
The official government site is here.
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The official government site is here.
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Consolidated UK immigration exit checks thread (starts 8th Apr 2015)
Apr 15, 2015, 12:14 am
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It seems like the UK has been doing this for air passengers leaving the country for a while. So they must have been dealing with the question of someone arriving on one passport and departing on another in some way - possibly by ignoring it.
If we assume that everyone is checked on the way in across all border crossings (titter ye not!) then foreigners leaving who did not arrive, are all going to be people leaving on the foreign passport after arriving on the UK passport. The government need only concern itself with foreigners who arrive and then leave after they should. Simples!
If we assume that everyone is checked on the way in across all border crossings (titter ye not!) then foreigners leaving who did not arrive, are all going to be people leaving on the foreign passport after arriving on the UK passport. The government need only concern itself with foreigners who arrive and then leave after they should. Simples!
When I flew from Boston to London and back last year I gave VS only my US passport info, but when I arrived at LHR I left that passport in my pocket and entered through the e-passport lanes with my IE passport. API would match up my arrival and departure flights, though if they didn't correlate my actual entry with the API (which could be done fairly easily using my name and birthdate, which are the same on both passports) then Border Force might assume I spent two weeks sitting in the transit lounge at LHR T3.
Apr 15, 2015, 4:40 am
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U.S. airlines check foreign passports for international trips, but the airlines generally do not check these for purposes of the airline determining what is an overstaying or not.
The US -- like the UK -- still manages to have mis-matched (or not matched) arrival info with departure info for some of its citizens and/or other legal residents and/or visitors. This would be less likely to occur if the government didn't rely upon airline collection and filings and instead used its own direct checks.
Last edited by GUWonder; Apr 15, 2015 at 4:46 am