<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Globaliser:
Off the top of my head, I think the Swiss have been able to do this for many years now.
The French can sometimes be very haphazard about document checks. I think that's one reason why the UK is so firmly set against joining Schengen. A large proportion of the UK's illegal immigrants come through France but have no interest in staying there. You can see why the UK doesn't want effectively to hand over border policing to France.</font>
If this also means anything, I met a guy who had a canadian passport, and he was traveling around europe, and he was flying from Greence to London, and when he was going through exit immigration in Athens, turns out that the French authorities didn't stamp his passport! Now, a canadian passport is about as good as gold, but they wanted to detain him for illegal entry, and then he showed his Eurorail passes and the reciepts for that and that he'd been traveling around, and his first ticket stub from CDG.