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Not all border control: non-Gibraltar UK citizens will still have to show passports at the Gibraltar-Spanish border.
by Beldin 6y ago
Not all border control: non-Gibraltar UK citizens will still have to show passports at the Gibraltar-Spanish border.
- Someone 6y agoAre you sure? I think they will have to show their passport when entering Gibraltar from outside the Schengen area, not when crossing the Spain-Gibraltar border (the BBC page I linked to says they already have to show it now, so that won’t change) How would that even work, a border where some persons have to identify themselves while others can cross freely? That would catch only the truly stupid criminals. (But what do I know? Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area makes my head go dizzy with all the exceptions. You can sort-of sneak into the Schengen area via Svalbard or the Faroe islands, for example, so some holes needed to be closed there) Such a system only work when everybody already has to show ID, as is the case when traveling by boat or plane to and from the parts of Spain in Africa (that’s a security check, not a border check. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area#Air_travel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area#Air_travel)