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Flight records are not used for immigration control, nor does the Home Office have regular access to them, at least not publicly. Furthermore, when getting on a plane in the UK, your passport is not even required to get through to airside. They will always ask to see your boarding card though as you go through security. The only time your passport is normally looked at is when you are checking in, and again at the boarding gate as you board the plane.Administrator wrote:.
Were your passports scanned at any point? If yes, there is an electronic record. There are also the flight records.
Physical stamps are rapidly becoming anachronistic, so don't go by that without more information.
In the future, if this concerns you, you can request that stamps be placed in your passports. You might get an odd look, but you can explain you need the record of it (in your opinion).
the Admin
Even when passports are scanned there is no electric record kept by immigration. A passport can be scanned at the airport for any number ofAdministrator wrote:.
Were your passports scanned at any point? If yes, there is an electronic record. There are also the flight records.
So what would be a valid reason?Administrator wrote:.
Were your passports scanned at any point? If yes, there is an electronic record. There are also the flight records.
Physical stamps are rapidly becoming anachronistic, so don't go by that without more information.
In the future, if this concerns you, you can request that stamps be placed in your passports. You might get an odd look, but you can explain you need the record of it (in your opinion).
the Admin
I think that this is the thing I wasn't sure of.Christophe wrote:-[SNIP]-
The British officials are fully aware that there are no routine exit controls at UK ports: it is a situation that they face every day. They are therefore not going to be looking for proof from passports or (non-existent) records of departures.
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You're not wrong there!Dave_Was wrote:...Still it just seems that the systems a mess, it's open to abuse...
That's fine if there is an immigration official to ask. And even if there is, they might not be in a position to stamp your wife's passport anyway, because when immigration officials are in place to check departing passengers, they're not necessarily fully equipped with stamps and so on...Dave_Was wrote:...I think that next time my wife and I land in the UK we'll ask the immigration official what the exit procedure is...
Dave_Was wrote:Hello Everyone,
My question is, if you come in on a visitors visa and leave at the correct time how do the authorities know that you came in and left on time?
My situation is that I live in the US with my wife. I am a UK Citizen and my wife an Indian citizen. Somewhere down the line we will move to the UK. About a year ago, we applied for a two year multiple entry visitors visa, so we could go and visit my parents and generally visit London, where I grew up.
We have been back twice, both about 10 day stays and both times flying into and out of Heathrow.
Were we supposed to do anything special when we left? We basically just got on the plane and flew back to the US. As we are permanent residents in the US we don't get stamps in our passports on entry to the US.
I'm a bit of a worrier, and this just popped into my head.
Thanks,
Dave.
Christophe,Christophe wrote:You're not wrong there!Dave_Was wrote:...Still it just seems that the systems a mess, it's open to abuse...
That's fine if there is an immigration official to ask. And even if there is, they might not be in a position to stamp your wife's passport anyway, because when immigration officials are in place to check departing passengers, they're not necessarily fully equipped with stamps and so on...Dave_Was wrote:...I think that next time my wife and I land in the UK we'll ask the immigration official what the exit procedure is...
thirdwave wrote:Dave_Was wrote:Hello Everyone,
My question is, if you come in on a visitors visa and leave at the correct time how do the authorities know that you came in and left on time?
My situation is that I live in the US with my wife. I am a UK Citizen and my wife an Indian citizen. Somewhere down the line we will move to the UK. About a year ago, we applied for a two year multiple entry visitors visa, so we could go and visit my parents and generally visit London, where I grew up.
We have been back twice, both about 10 day stays and both times flying into and out of Heathrow.
Were we supposed to do anything special when we left? We basically just got on the plane and flew back to the US. As we are permanent residents in the US we don't get stamps in our passports on entry to the US.
I'm a bit of a worrier, and this just popped into my head.
Thanks,
Dave.
Dave,are u trying to tell us tht u've visited London twice recently & still want to move there???