Do they make you queue up in a Bézier curve? Asking for a friend.
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Yes the queue goes around a parabolic curve.
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Yes, but always more than one.
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Predictable craziness and a suspension of the system at Dover today:
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Glad not to be travelling today.
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Strange but both Thursday and Friday flights from here to Stansted were hours late taking off as they turn north end of my street from the airport here at low altitude. I wonder if this was because Std was brimming over with people coming and going, they were delaying inbounds so they could make room
4.5 hours delay in Dover, people misding their alloted sailings, they have given up and gone manual. Its not a digital life
Colour me surprised!
We’ve had no problems at all travelling to/from Nimes to Stanstead. Also, on the way back home, we entered the french queue because of our carte de sejour and probably saved about an hour as the non-EU queue were being fingerprinted and photo’d.
Also, at Stanstead, there was no requirement to take stuff out of our bags.
Same for us at Béziers. There was a douane telling people which queue to use and he directed me to the EU queue.
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Which has then caused my wife problems in St Malo this morning as it looks like we were electronically recorded as entering Schengen that trip but not leaving a week later.
Presumably I’ll face the same problem on the way in when we travel as a family at the beginning of July - and by the time we leave it will look like I spent 70 days in the zone. Not a problem for the next trip in terms of the Schengen limit but I might have to start taking it into account for future trips.
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You know what you have to do Billy. Come here and get yourself a residence card.
You can start off as a frontalier if you want to spend a bit more time working in the UK.
Possibility of slip-ups/misunderstanding re travel/entry/exit.. has been mentioned before
Can’t recall where I read it, but someone suggested keeping the tickets/proof of travel in and out of whichever country.
anything which can prove when one was in whichever country as a “just in case” until pp are stamped correctly or electronic magic works its wonders 
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Almost certainly not feasible I’m afraid.
Yes - I suggested to my wife that we print out the Eurostar tickets from the Berlin trip. Doesn’t really prove we left but might help. If I need to prove that I was in the UK I could probably do something with credit card receipts showing purchases in local shops..
I imagine there will be a lot of people in a similar position as the system irons out the glitches.
Hopefully I won’t get any issues entering France beyone a raised eyebrow (which is all that happened this morning).
For the next trip we return from France on Jul 12th - that means I need to count stays back to 12th Jan. If “the system” thinks I entered Schengen on May 4 and didn’t leave until Jul 12 that means I will have appeared to have stayed 82 days up to Jul 12.
Which doesn’t leave me a lot of wriggle room.
We are just back from a visit to Germany via Basel in Switzerland. Ryanair got us from Stansted to Basel in 90 minutes. It then took us a queue of 100 minutes to get through passport control. Any UK passport holder (without leave to stay in a European country) will have to be finger printed and photographed on every visit. The queue time will vary according to the number of machines, officers and the number of planes arriving at the same time. Eurostar has priced themselves out of the market so flying to small airports seems to be the only way to beat the queue.
That was the airport exit to Germany I assume.
Did you see what was happening to people with residence cards?
Everything I’ve read suggests those with residency cards are exempt from EES.
There are two choices of exit at Basel. Either France or Switzerland. The airport staff were continually calling out for European passports to reduce the queue though I’m not sure about the residential cards.
