Originally Posted by
Earthman
The practical reason here is to record all entries to Éire,the details of which are shared with the UK BF so everyone who can cross into NI is known,should there be a reason to know this
It’s the most accurate way of recording it when there’s an open land border and unnecessary the other way round as there’s no land border and it’s correctly assumed that if you are heading to GB from say Dublin via air,you’ve either already got to Dublin having entered the CTA in GB or NI via UKBF/egates or are an Irish citizen
that doesn’t make sense since you aren’t recorded if you go via the manned desks when you present a Uk passport. In fact when ba used to use the 300 gates there was no recording of anything as they used to look at your passport and then allow you on without any scanning.
Do you know this for sure or is this supposition?