Re:UK votes to leave EU
by CaptainZapp on Friday June 24, 2016 @06:39AM
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no passport required
A biometric passport of those countries gets you through the automated passport control gates, which makes the whole process significantly faster an much less painful.
You realize the new EU ID cards also have biometric features? The German one, for example, is a full eID even.
Re:UK votes to leave EU
by CaptainZapp on Monday June 27, 2016 @06:32AM
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Maybe. But to my recollection a passport is required to use those gates.
If I recall correctly:
Minimum age requirements; kids are not allowed
A biometric passport
A passport from an eligable coutry. Essentially the EU, Island, Norway, Switzerland and potentially a few moreRight, right. I totally forgot because the border controls in the UK didn't look like the ones Turkey has in place.
Bulgaria (which is 40k away from my town) had very lose controls. They had been tightened lately, I'm guessing because of the refugee crisis.
UK border controls, though, probably aren't going to change much. They never had open borders, although they did - and will probably continue to - have mutual agreements on somewhat less strict border formalities with most Schengen countries (eg. a national ID is enough to enter, no passport required, but you still have to go through passport control).