I think this is the key point and why you are not actually travelling under the RTP program anymore.

Earlier this year EasyPass was updated to handle foreign passports of German permanent residents.

I myself have now used EasyPass for exit and entry over four trips in the last two months despite travelling on Australian passport and having never registered for RTP (I wouldn't even qualify for it).

https://www.easypass.de/EasyPass/EN/...PASS_node.html


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Sigh, was not informed of this…and mine has expired now…great, needed to use it in a few days. I could have renewed it this summer :(

How do you get to the EasyPass Registration Office in MUC? Room 4479 as explained in the EasyPass instructions did not have the registration office.

How do I find the BuPo office in MUC? I figured it's Landside, but not really sure where to go.

It took me 40 minutes to get landside, about 80 minutes getting lost trying to find the BuPo office, and I left myself a 90 minute buffer to re-clear security and passport control to catch my onward flight.

Its in the courtyard in front of the T2, one level above where you come out.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/K3F8iPrbN9gvneYU7

Its above the left 'EDEKA' sign on this picture.


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...33ceed20ba.png

I tried to use the electronic gates upon departing FRA for a non-Schengen a couple weeks before Christmas with a biometric passport and permanent residence permit, and the machine wouldn't accept it.

So I went to the manual queue. The officer said "you know you can use the gates". "I know, and it showed me an X and didn't work, so here I am......" :confused:

Does anybody know if EasyPass eligiblity will be expanded?
The current eligibility is very small with just USA, Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan. I read online Germany does this on a reciprical basis with other countries which allow German passport expedited entry.
However UK, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand are Non-EEA countries which allow German citizens to use fast track E-Gates. Why does Germany not add these nations then to their list?
Unlike the RTP-NL scheme in the Netherlands that just never happened, Germany actually does have a scheme set up so to restrict it to such a handful of nationalities seems unnecessary.
Thoughts?

I signed up last year with a US passport but yet have to manage to get the gates to work. It just won’t clear my passport, so I have to see a gate agent every time.

Have you tried going back to the office where you originally signed up?

My SO is in the same boat. The gates let her *in*, but 9 times out of 10, she's stuck between two doors until an officer sees her and manually opens the door. 2 weeks ago in Frankfurt it miraculously worked, last week in Munich, it didn't. She asked if she needs to do anything else, they told her "no, you're fully in the system", so not sure what's wrong then.

Is it SOP that officers must manually open up the 2nd door for 3rd country nationals with EasyPass?

I haven't used since COVID but unless things have changed, the 2nd gate is NOT suppose to open for non-Schengen passports even if enrolled in RTP. The officer is supposed to trigger the 2nd gate for traveler to proceed to the officer for the entry/exit stamp.

Current instructions state the same - https://www.easypass.de/EasyPass/EN/.../rtp_node.html

Ah, that explains it! I guess some officers are more alert than others then, because sometimes the 2nd gate just opens immediately, and sometimes she has to wave and jump for someone to see her 🤣

When this was initially available for non-Schengen passports (well before COVID), border police officers were all over the place. Some weren't sure why I was waving at them after going thru the 1st gate. One even came out of their booth to see what's wrong so I had to educate them they were suppose to open it remotely and stamp my passport but I suspect he might be new to the force; very young kid. :)

I haven’t been back to that airport and won’t be for a while. I’ll be at a different airport soon and will see if I can stop by their office.