Originally Posted by B747-437B

Non-EU national airline crew who fly into the UK are ordinarily permitted to remain 7 days without inspection under a "Section 8 exemption". Our airline has 14 crewmembers currently in the UK and are working closely with UKBA as the first 7 crewmembers will exceed their limits on Tuesday. Due to the UK elections, none of the UKBA people are particularly keen to relax the regulations until they absolutely have to, but its not like they can really deport them either. We shall see on Tuesday I guess.