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Lorry drivers will be required to leave their cabs to undergo biometric checks in order to cross the Channel from next year.
New biometric checks will be required this summer, potentially meaning long delays.
‘Brexit to blame’: Huge lorry queues at Dover as port bosses call for talks on EU checks [1 min]
21/01/2022
‘It’s entirely Brexit,’ says haulier who has been caught up in 15km queues.
Brexit border: UK and EU have ‘months to stop tourist traffic grinding to a halt’ if no deal is reached
29/01/2022
British tourists headed for city breaks in Paris or sunny getaways in Spain in September could be hit by new biometric checks set to be required at the border.
Border checks said to have increased business costs and ‘suppressed’ trade, and the situation could worsen.
New biometric checks at EU border in Dover, Kent, will cause 'miles of traffic jams' [3 mins]
21/01/2022
ITV News Business and Economics Editor Joel Hills reports on the expected delays due to be caused when new biometric checks at the EU border in Kent are introduced.
Why are lorries queueing on the A20 at Dover? Fears increase over Brexit border check delays
22/01/2022
Under new rules introduced on January 1, 2022, freight carriers now have to perform more extensive checks at the UK-EU border and this means that exporting goods to Europe can take longer at the checkpoints.
Brexit border queues to hit holidaymakers when travel rebounds in 2022, MPs warn Government
10/02/2022
Eurostar and Dover are at risk of Brexit border delays this summer when passenger numbers return to pre-pandemic levels, says parliamentary watchdog.
A new system for monitoring non-EU travellers entering the bloc’s Schengen Area is scheduled to be implemented in April next year and may lead to delays of 17 miles, an industry insider warned today.
Port’s CEO Doug Bannister warns MPs that checkpoint times for motorists leaving the UK could increase seven-fold.
EU fingerprint checks and travel chaos expected next summer as SNP blame Brexit 2 hrs ago
13/10/2022
FINGERPRINT checks set to be introduced on the EU border could cause significant disruption to holidaymakers, industry experts have warned.
Europe-bound trains won’t stop at Ashford and Ebbsfleet International stations for at least ‘two to three years’.
Is Brexit to blame for Dover chaos?
25/07/2022
UK and French officials in war of words as holidaymakers hit by long delays.
Fingerprint and face checks at EU border to take British travellers ‘up to four times longer’
29/11/2022
Entry-Exit System that UK asked to be subject to could cause serious snarl-ups at ports and airports.
Biometrics commissioner "deeply concerned" as Lib Dem Layla Moran tells HuffPost UK leaving pacts "will make Britain less safe".
Algarve ‘Brexit balls-up’
26/10/2022
Brits in several municipalities discover biometric data for new residency cards ‘can only be processed in Lisbon’.
But the chief executive of the Port of Dover says UK and French governments need to work together to ease new processes.
Border Communities Against Brexit have roundly condemned the planned move to introduce a new Electronic Authorisation Scheme for non Irish and UK cross border visitors in the new year.
The Port of Dover has called on the government to share the “rules of the game” when it comes to post-Brexit checks.
The European Union's new Entry Exit System could see much longer queues at UK ports including Dover and St Pancras International, Folkestone and Dover when it comes into force next year.
Proposal floated as part of crackdown replacing free movement with minimum salary threshold of £25,600 and EU citizens may have to provide fingerprints.
How satisfying for a prime ministerial contender to blame the French for the effects of Brexit.
The mayor warned that new biometric border controls threaten to create ‘huge queues’ at St Pancras station.
New biometric border controls being introduced for UK citizens due to Brexit could create “huge queues” of travellers, reports Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter.
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