European Travel To Require Fingerprints

[Annie Bynnol]

All UK passport holders will need have their fingerprints taken on arrival in European (except RoI and Cyprus) from next October next year.

This and the £7 per three years ETIAS short stay scheme will be a requirement, This will prevent us overstaying which will require a full visa and full tax deceleration.

[Palomar]

Another Brexit Brucie Bonus.

[KP Nuts 2]

Great news. The more clear blue water we can put between us and that organisation the better. We need more of this sort of stuff.

[Al Bundy]

It's really no big deal is it.

[HeHasRisen]

15 minutes ago, Al Bundy said:

It's really no big deal is it.

Well no, especially as the UK are starting an identical scheme. This is what we (well, not me) voted for. And it doesnt just affect UK arrivals to the EU either.

Edited December 19, 2023 by HeHasRisen

[Annie Bynnol]

33 minutes ago, KP Nuts 2 said:

Great news. The more clear blue water we can put between us and that organisation the better. We need more of this sort of stuff.

    What organization?

[ECCOnoob]

37 minutes ago, Al Bundy said:

It's really no big deal is it.

 

22 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said:

Well no, especially as the UK are starting an identical scheme. This is what we (well, not me) voted for. And it doesnt just affect UK arrivals to the EU either.

Could not agree more. In fact its pretty much the same process I've had when visiting most non-EU countries around the world.

 

Biometric passports have been on the cards for a while.  People seem more than happy to swipe their fingerprint to get easy access to their phone or banking app or entry into some buildings and they are not crying about it.

 

However, I'm sure the usual  suspects will be along shortly with their tin foil conspiracy theories.... banging on about the 'good old days' of proper British paper passports and nothing more than a smile to get through customs, speculating about fingerprints being used for evil under some government secret scheme to sell our data and working in some way to declare woke, transgender, black neoliberalists are ruining the world....

 

Seems to be how most of the threads are descending these days

Edited December 19, 2023 by ECCOnoob

[m williamson]

While we were still EU members our officials took part in the early planning of this requirement. Our politicians were fully aware of this happening,  although I don't remember it being mentioned prior to the referendum. It will apply to all Third Countries which is what we chose to be.

As I hold an Irish passport it won't apply to me but it will to the rest of my Sheffield family.

 

 

[KP Nuts 2]

4 minutes ago, ECCOnoob said:

government secret scheme to sell our data and working in some way to declare woke, transgender, black neoliberalists are ruining the world....

Nailed it there bud. 

[Jack Grey]

I guess this will only be used for people who want to travel legally at airports

 

The illegal migrants will be still be able to travel though the whole of Europe no questions asked