Two passports and API
Discussion
I have a UK and EU passport.
When I leave the UK there are no border checks, then when I arrive in the EU I show my EU passport.
On the way out of the EU I use my EU passport, then when I land in the UK I enter with my UK passport.
My question is, which passport details do I enter for advanced passenger information, or does it not matter?
I want to avoid getting quizzed at immigration as to why the details don’t match, or is this information strictly for airlines and of no other relevance?
When I leave the UK there are no border checks, then when I arrive in the EU I show my EU passport.
On the way out of the EU I use my EU passport, then when I land in the UK I enter with my UK passport.
My question is, which passport details do I enter for advanced passenger information, or does it not matter?
I want to avoid getting quizzed at immigration as to why the details don’t match, or is this information strictly for airlines and of no other relevance?
SkinnyPete said:
On the way out of the EU I use my EU passport, then when I land in the UK I enter with my UK passport.
Why bother with that, just use your EU passport everywhere. No matter what people claim there is no requirement to use a UK passport to enter the UK in preference to another passport - heck, you don't even need to have a UK passport if you have another.
I have a UK and a German passport. Living in Germany and I normally enter the German passport information into the respective airline information. I then normally leave Germany showing the German passport and show the UK passport entering the UK, and then vice versa for the return. Probably all unnecessary but avoids questions over right to remain. I don't actually think that the airline information and border control's information is linked.
PF62 said:
Not quite sure as I don't have to look at it for too long, unlike all those people stood for ages in the lengthy 'you Britisher's over there' queue clutching their 'Brexit blue' passports.
I entered France on a UK passport, off a car ferry, and I'm pretty sure everyone was in the same queue at the immigration gates regardless of nationality.Rumdoodle said:
PF62 said:
Not quite sure as I don't have to look at it for too long, unlike all those people stood for ages in the lengthy 'you Britisher's over there' queue clutching their 'Brexit blue' passports.
I entered France on a UK passport, off a car ferry, and I'm pretty sure everyone was in the same queue at the immigration gates regardless of nationality."In order to reduce the waiting times of persons enjoying the Union right of free movement, separate lanes, indicated by uniform signs in all Member States, should, where circumstances allow, be provided at border crossing points"
PF62 said:
Then that French port isn't implementing EU regulation 2016/399 correctly - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTM...
"In order to reduce the waiting times of persons enjoying the Union right of free movement, separate lanes, indicated by uniform signs in all Member States, should, where circumstances allow, be provided at border crossing points"
I wasn't really paying much attention, but how do they segregate EU and non-EU passport holders who are in cars? I drove off the boat and all cars were directed into the same few lanes. I handed my passport over through the car window, someone checked it and then I drove off. Do they send EU registered cars into different lanes where the passports aren't checked? How do they know if there is a non-EU passport holder in a French registered car?"In order to reduce the waiting times of persons enjoying the Union right of free movement, separate lanes, indicated by uniform signs in all Member States, should, where circumstances allow, be provided at border crossing points"
Rumdoodle said:
I wasn't really paying much attention, but how do they segregate EU and non-EU passport holders who are in cars?
The same way as they do it at airports - signs and staff. Signs saying "EU citizens this way, the rest of you over there", backed up with staff to direct the significant number of British dimwits who can't understand that simple instruction.
PF62 said:
Rumdoodle said:
I wasn't really paying much attention, but how do they segregate EU and non-EU passport holders who are in cars?
The same way as they do it at airports - signs and staff. Signs saying "EU citizens this way, the rest of you over there", backed up with staff to direct the significant number of British dimwits who can't understand that simple instruction.
PF62 said:
Rumdoodle said:
PF62 said:
Not quite sure as I don't have to look at it for too long, unlike all those people stood for ages in the lengthy 'you Britisher's over there' queue clutching their 'Brexit blue' passports.
I entered France on a UK passport, off a car ferry, and I'm pretty sure everyone was in the same queue at the immigration gates regardless of nationality."In order to reduce the waiting times of persons enjoying the Union right of free movement, separate lanes, indicated by uniform signs in all Member States, should, where circumstances allow, be provided at border crossing points"
Rumdoodle said:
But that would require people to get out of their cars, if there is an EU passport holder and a non-EU passport holder in the same car, which they weren't doing.
Not really. Non-EU family members of an EU citizen can use the EU lanes when with the EU citizen, and on a ferry a car with an EU citizen with non-EU citizens who were not family members would be unusual.
But if it was a ferry from the UK to France then I can see why they didn't bother, as the number of EU citizens wanting to come to the UK is damn all, and it will just be British citizens in their cars on the ferry.
Edited by PF62 on Wednesday 20th March 10:19
PF62 said:
Not really.
Non-EU family members of an EU citizen can use the EU lanes when with the EU citizen, and on a ferry a car with an EU citizen with non-EU citizens who were not family members would be unusual.
But if it was a ferry from the UK to France then I can see why they didn't bother, as the number of EU citizens wanting to come to the UK is damn all, and it will just be British citizens in their cars on the ferry.
I think that's it, then. For whatever reason, they weren't distinguishing. Makes sense.Non-EU family members of an EU citizen can use the EU lanes when with the EU citizen, and on a ferry a car with an EU citizen with non-EU citizens who were not family members would be unusual.
But if it was a ferry from the UK to France then I can see why they didn't bother, as the number of EU citizens wanting to come to the UK is damn all, and it will just be British citizens in their cars on the ferry.
Edited by PF62 on Wednesday 20th March 10:19
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