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You are mixing up two separate things:euspouse07 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 04, 2021 12:31 pmI am opening this thread to discuss /share the experience of travelling in to UK with the new BRP card/ digital status .
1) Do non -eu citizens ( holders of BRP CARD) need to have sharer code with them while approaching the immigration officer / airlines staff?
2) Do the same apply to the EU NATIONALS as they won’t be carrying any physical evidence related to their immigration status but just the digital form of status ?
Please share from your experience.
Thanks
just wanted to add something to b) ; last month my EU citizen wife went to home country to replace her expired passport then she returned back to the UK with 1 day old new passport. At the airport she used automatic gate with no officer like she normally does and nobody asked anything (even we applied to EUSS in 2019 by her old passport).kamoe wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:27 pmYou are mixing up two separate things:euspouse07 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 04, 2021 12:31 pmI am opening this thread to discuss /share the experience of travelling in to UK with the new BRP card/ digital status .
1) Do non -eu citizens ( holders of BRP CARD) need to have sharer code with them while approaching the immigration officer / airlines staff?
2) Do the same apply to the EU NATIONALS as they won’t be carrying any physical evidence related to their immigration status but just the digital form of status ?
Please share from your experience.
Thanks
1. How to prove your right to live and work in the UK to a landlord or employer. This is supposed to be done via a share code that employers and landlords can check online.
2. How to prove your right to enter or remain to airlines and UK border control.
a) Airlines will almost always require a physical document, like UK or European passport, or a BRP/BRC or visa for non-EU passport holders. (Airlines don't bother to check EUSS status, a EU passport in itself is good.)
b) UK border control have access to the system that checks electronic EUSS status, so as far as you produce the document that you applied with for your status (usually, passports for EU nationals, BRP/BRC for non
EU nationals) then you will be good.
A share code is useless for both a) and b) above.
Perhaps somewhat beside the point but as most of us know e-gates and e-Passports don't always work, for various factors relating to both e-gates and your e-Passport, happens to at least a few people every time I go through passport control in the UK, so you may end up having to go through manned immigration/passport control. And if you're using your EU national ID card instead of your e-Passport you can't use e-gates.kamoe wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:36 pmThanks, useful addition to the above. This proves that as I said, EU passports are good enough, EUSS or not, since EU nationals do not need a visa to enter the UK. (Using egates negates the situation reported earlier this year of EU nationals being deported because of their verbal answers to UK border officers).
Sure.dexmo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 1:53 pmPerhaps somewhat beside the point but as most of us know e-gates and e-Passports don't always work, for various factors relating to both e-gates and your e-Passport, happens to at least a few people every time I go through passport control in the UK, so you may end up having to go through manned immigration/passport control. And if you're using your EU national ID card instead of your e-Passport you can't use e-gates.kamoe wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:36 pmThanks, useful addition to the above. This proves that as I said, EU passports are good enough, EUSS or not, since EU nationals do not need a visa to enter the UK. (Using egates negates the situation reported earlier this year of EU nationals being deported because of their verbal answers to UK border officers).
Sorry, inaccurate. Current legislation allows EEA/EU nationals with pre-settled and settled status to continue using their national ID cards to enter the UK. There's no indication at this point in time that this is going to change.kamoe wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 2:18 pmSure.dexmo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 1:53 pmPerhaps somewhat beside the point but as most of us know e-gates and e-Passports don't always work, for various factors relating to both e-gates and your e-Passport, happens to at least a few people every time I go through passport control in the UK, so you may end up having to go through manned immigration/passport control. And if you're using your EU national ID card instead of your e-Passport you can't use e-gates.kamoe wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:36 pmThanks, useful addition to the above. This proves that as I said, EU passports are good enough, EUSS or not, since EU nationals do not need a visa to enter the UK. (Using egates negates the situation reported earlier this year of EU nationals being deported because of their verbal answers to UK border officers).
Now, keep in mind that after Brexit EU nationals can no longer travel to the UK on their EU national ID card! A passport is needed now.
True. I was thinking of EU visitors, sorry.dexmo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:54 pmSorry, inaccurate. Current legislation allows EEA/EU nationals with pre-settled and settled status to continue using their national ID cards to enter the UK. There's no indication at this point in time that this is going to change.kamoe wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 2:18 pmSure.dexmo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 1:53 pmPerhaps somewhat beside the point but as most of us know e-gates and e-Passports don't always work, for various factors relating to both e-gates and your e-Passport, happens to at least a few people every time I go through passport control in the UK, so you may end up having to go through manned immigration/passport control. And if you're using your EU national ID card instead of your e-Passport you can't use e-gates.kamoe wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:36 pmThanks, useful addition to the above. This proves that as I said, EU passports are good enough, EUSS or not, since EU nationals do not need a visa to enter the UK. (Using egates negates the situation reported earlier this year of EU nationals being deported because of their verbal answers to UK border officers).
Now, keep in mind that after Brexit EU nationals can no longer travel to the UK on their EU national ID card! A passport is needed now.
What about the airline check in? Your wife just showed her EEA BRC (assuming not expired?) ?Euscheme_problem wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 10:42 amHi, to help out, both my Wife (Non-EEA, pre-settled) and I (EU, settled) just came back from a holiday in the EU to Manchester Airport.
Immigration took 2 seconds, he scanned our passports, looked at my wife's BRC, checked our faces, said "I can see your status, welcome back" and that was it. Didn't even check our Passenger Locator Form or negative COVID results.