Flew to Cologne a few days ago, first flight post Covid and of course Brexit. I knew I couldn’t go through the EU passport section so queued in the non EU Lane. A women with a German passport with her young son who only had a British one realised she was in the wrong queue, she asked if she could get under the tape and go in front of me. No problem of course. Then a group of six Brits on way to a Rhine cruise , suddenly twigged they were in the wrong queue and just assumed they could push in front of us all. That irritated me a little.
I was ‘stamped in after they asked me why I was visiting Germany and how long would I stay.
Anyway, coming back to Stansted, I assumed there would be a British passport only section and other nationalities would have an EU section or non UK. None of it, we all queued together for the electronic section.
Do I assume that while we get stamped (and questioned) and can only total 90 days in 180, there is no such reciprocal procedure? |
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"Flew to Cologne a few days ago, first flight post Covid and of course Brexit. I knew I couldn’t go through the EU passport section so queued in the non EU Lane. A women with a German passport with her young son who only had a British one realised she was in the wrong queue, she asked if she could get under the tape and go in front of me. No problem of course. Then a group of six Brits on way to a Rhine cruise , suddenly twigged they were in the wrong queue and just assumed they could push in front of us all. That irritated me a little.
I was ‘stamped in after they asked me why I was visiting Germany and how long would I stay.
Anyway, coming back to Stansted, I assumed there would be a British passport only section and other nationalities would have an EU section or non UK. None of it, we all queued together for the electronic section.
Do I assume that while we get stamped (and questioned) and can only total 90 days in 180, there is no such reciprocal procedure?"
looks like you can be here for six months. |
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"brexit allowing us to control our borders is proven to be just one a huge pile of lies that the foolish and xenophobic lapped up .... why didn't anyone point this out before? .... oh hang on  "
Why ‘xenophobic’? |
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By *oo hotCouple
over a year ago
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"Flew to Cologne a few days ago, first flight post Covid and of course Brexit. I knew I couldn’t go through the EU passport section so queued in the non EU Lane. A women with a German passport with her young son who only had a British one realised she was in the wrong queue, she asked if she could get under the tape and go in front of me. No problem of course. Then a group of six Brits on way to a Rhine cruise , suddenly twigged they were in the wrong queue and just assumed they could push in front of us all. That irritated me a little.
I was ‘stamped in after they asked me why I was visiting Germany and how long would I stay.
Anyway, coming back to Stansted, I assumed there would be a British passport only section and other nationalities would have an EU section or non UK. None of it, we all queued together for the electronic section.
Do I assume that while we get stamped (and questioned) and can only total 90 days in 180, there is no such reciprocal procedure?"
No, there is no equally reciprocal arrangement. Border Force occasionally pick on people to make a headline, but the policy is not joined up and is not fully implemented just like the Brexit import checks are not yet fully implemented. In both cases, to implement the rules fully would only the words of Jacob Rees Mogg be BBC an act of self harm.
Ergo… we accept the EU placing restrictions on us and our trade into the EU because that is what Brexit was all about. And we just shrug glumly when it comes to implementing reciprocal arrangements because we know that it will cause us more harm to do so.
Still. Brexit win eh? Somehow.., |
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No, there is no equally reciprocal arrangement. Border Force occasionally pick on people to make a headline, but the policy is not joined up and is not fully implemented just like the Brexit import checks are not yet fully implemented. In both cases, to implement the rules fully would only the words of Jacob Rees Mogg be BBC an act of self harm.
Ergo… we accept the EU placing restrictions on us and our trade into the EU because that is what Brexit was all about. And we just shrug glumly when it comes to implementing reciprocal arrangements because we know that it will cause us more harm to do so.
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aka getting brexit dung  |
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"brexit allowing us to control our borders is proven to be just one a huge pile of lies that the foolish and xenophobic lapped up .... why didn't anyone point this out before? .... oh hang on "
It wasn't painted on the side of a big red bus, thats why it got sidelined. |
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By *coptoCouple
over a year ago
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"Do I assume that while we get stamped (and questioned) and can only total 90 days in 180, there is no such reciprocal procedure?"
No "reciprocal" procedure as such, but scanning of the EU national's passport will show whether the holder has pre- or settled status or whatever, otherwise they'll be quizzed as to their purpose of visit. My daughter flew back this afternoon with her (British) boyfriend from a holiday in Menorca, his passport was stamped in and out and the time there recorded on the 90-day clock.
She avoids similar bullshit by flying into Europe with her German passport and on her return showing UK border control her British one.
I myself have a Carte de Séjour with unlimited right to live, work etc. in France, but even I'm fucked if I want to spend any length of time in, say, Germany: I'm subject to the 90-day rule throughout the rest of Europe.
Still, it's what we voted for... |
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