Originally Posted by
the810
There's still a lot of issues with using EU ID cards in the UK though. I recently witnessed a conflict between a pax who has pre-settled status (thus is eligible for entry into the UK with an ID card) and a BA gate agent at LHR who has decided that ID cards are not accepted to depart from the UK. It's a major PITA. I imagine Irish passport cards holds are in a marginally better position but probably not completely prone to the confusion.
The trouble is that if the ID card isn't linked to show the Settled or Pre Settled Status then it won't show when you scan it. You can link more than one document - different passports/ID Cards for example but not everyone knows that and some people assume that it will be done automatically (it won't). Not saying that's what happened here but it's worth bearing in mind.
Originally Posted by
the810
(Not to diverdge from the topic here, but I still can't wrap my head around why UK doesn't accept EU ID cards unilaterally, like some Balkan countries do - clearly they've been good enough proof of identity for decades, and since they no longer stamp EU passports anyway, I really don't understand why is a passport better than an ID card for the British authorities, especially since EU ID cards are now biometric too.)
Forgery basically. False documentation was very common with EU ID cards. Italy had a paper one until 2018!
Of course it might be different now and they are probably more secure but at the time a passport was considerably more secure. And still is. Personally i don't see what's wrong with a passport. Seems to work everywhere else in the world.