Brexit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s not so bad if they put their hands up and admit they made a mistake,\u201d he wrote in The Times last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if I encounter someone who still thinks it was all a brilliant idea, I get so cross my hair catches fire and my teeth start to itch.\u201d<\/p>\n
Britain voted to leave the EU in a 2016 referendum.<\/p>\n
For most UK travellers, the EES process happens at foreign airports.<\/p>\n
However, it is also carried out at the Port of Dover, as well as Eurotunnel\u2019s Folkestone terminal and London St Pancras railway station.<\/p>\n
After using the EES more than once, the photo of a British traveller’s face and\/or fingerprints will already be recorded in the system.<\/p>\n
Passport control officers will then only verify fingerprints and the photo, which should take less time. Biometric passport holders can also use the self-service system which is often faster.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, Britons and other travellers from third-party countries may also be asked to provide either their fingerprint or photo when leaving the Schengen Area.<\/p>\n
Some fliers have even missed flights back to the UK as a result of EES queues, like more than 100 passengers who missed their easyJet flight from Milan back to Manchester earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EES, which was fully rolled out in April, sees travellers from third-party countries \u2014 such as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1117038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5226],"tags":[4328,802,5322,748,2000,299,149894,5187,1699,4884,439,57944,16,15],"class_list":["post-1117037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brexit","tag-airports","tag-brexit","tag-brexit-news","tag-britain","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-europe-section","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-great-britain","tag-jeremy-clarkson","tag-travel-section","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}