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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Calder

British travellers face EES frontier roulette this summer

Frontier roulette: A graphic used on entry-exit system kiosks at Prague airport - (Služba cizinecké policie, Czech Republic)

“Registration for EES was well organised with minimal delays,” reports reader Brian Hartley from Palma airport. “However, my wife and I had different experiences at the registration system. She had to give fingerprints but I was directed to an eGate on a passport and facial scan, no fingerprints.”

The Hartleys’ arrival for their holiday in Mallorca sums up European frontier roulette – in which a spin of some bureaucratic wheel decides the kind of border control experience you will have under the new EU entry-exit system.

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