Originally Posted by LancashireFlyer

When I was pulled to one side, I was asked what time I passed through passport control. I couldn't remember the time, but gave them the inbound flight number. Presumably they worked out the time the plane arrived on stand and worked from there. I remember using the self-scan passport machines.

So when a (Heathrow?) member of staff arrived to start looking through the photos, out of the hundreds of people passing through passport control at that time, how did he find my photo? By chance, or is there a log of passport scans? It wasn't immediate like he tapped my passport number in and my picture popped up, but several minutes.

The exclamation he made to gate staff "I've got him!" made it sound like even he was surprised he found my photo.