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I went from London to Paris last week, only checked the passport once.
by TomWhitwell 3y ago
I went from London to Paris last week, only checked the passport once.
- Scoundreller 3y agoFrom my understanding, UK Border Force doesn’t do exit controls on that route by the Chunnel, but France (or security?) reports exits back to UK. The reverse has juxtaposed controls where you deal with both French exit controls and UK entry controls at the departure railway station. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juxtaposed_controls https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juxtaposed_controls
- laurencerowe 3y agoPretty sure the UK has never done exit controls. I remember being surprised at being asked for my passport at the border post the first time I flew out of Schengen since officials don’t check your passport flying out of the UK.
- NoboruWataya 3y agoI have travelled to the continent several times on the Eurostar and each time I got my passport checked twice in St Pancras Station in London, within a few metres of each other. Once by UK authorities and then by French authorities.
- Symbiote 3y agoAnd I have walked past the unmanned UK booths to the French one several times, but anecdotes are pretty useless in these discussions.
- NoboruWataya 3y agoWe're not debating statistical trends here, so blanket dismissals of "anecdotes" are themselves pretty useless. I was sharing my experience. Maybe you happened to be passing by while they were on their tea break, I don't know. I'm going again in a few weeks so will be interested to see if both booths are still functioning.
- Symbiote 3y agoThe UK introduced exit checks in 8 April 2015. My anecdote is from travel before then, yours after. Discussion-by-anecdote is pointless without dates etc, and a waste of time when it's easy enough to find the policy: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/exit-checks-on-passengers-leaving-the-uk/exit-checks-fact-sheet https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/exit-checks-on-pa...