Originally Posted by
steveholt
I don't think not listening to border police, even if their instructions aren't justifiable, would go over well.
I would never walk through the border without authorization, but a previous poster noted that the guards relented after receiving pushback from passengers. They certainly cannot give preferential treatment to Swedes.
EU law is very clear here:
It should be possible to have checks at external borders relaxed in the event of exceptional and unforeseeable circumstances in order to avoid excessive waiting time at border crossing points.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont...X%3A32016R0399
Wanting and getting are two entirely different things. The officers may have wanted people to wait in this situation, but that is not what they are entitled to get.
Maybe I am just too brazen, though. Before I got my EU citizenship, on several occasions border guards asked why my residence permit was in my passport instead of a a card / only had X days left / etc. “This is what I have, it’s valid” always sufficed. Maybe they would have liked to see a longer period of validity or a different format, but they had to take what I gave them.
Valid documents are valid documents.