Passport Control
Jul 10th 2007, 11:52 pm
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Passport Control
No this isnt another thread about how all expats are really p*ssed off at having to wait at US passport control. Its about the UK. OH flew into Manchester this a.m. and had to wait over an hour to get through the British / Eurpoean National lines. The foreign national lines were even worse. Last time we flew through Manchester in Easter this year there was no one and I mean no one checking UK nationals passports.
So anyone planning an imminent flight should make for extra time if you have a train to catch or the likes.
Still, I cant believe that they did away with exit / enter checks on Brit / Euro nationals in the first place. Way back in '94, silly sods. :curse:
Forewarned is fore armed
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So anyone planning an imminent flight should make for extra time if you have a train to catch or the likes.
Still, I cant believe that they did away with exit / enter checks on Brit / Euro nationals in the first place. Way back in '94, silly sods. :curse:
Forewarned is fore armed
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Jul 11th 2007, 12:12 am
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Re: Passport Control
No this isnt another thread about how all expats are really p*ssed off at having to wait at US passport control. Its about the UK. OH flew into Manchester this a.m. and had to wait over an hour to get through the British / Eurpoean National lines. The foreign national lines were even worse. Last time we flew through Manchester in Easter this year there was no one and I mean no one checking UK nationals passports.
So anyone planning an imminent flight should make for extra time if you have a train to catch or the likes.
Still, I cant believe that they did away with exit / enter checks on Brit / Euro nationals in the first place. Way back in '94, silly sods. :curse:
Forewarned is fore armed
</IMG>
So anyone planning an imminent flight should make for extra time if you have a train to catch or the likes.
Still, I cant believe that they did away with exit / enter checks on Brit / Euro nationals in the first place. Way back in '94, silly sods. :curse:
Forewarned is fore armed
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Jul 11th 2007, 12:18 am
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Dont get confused about hte side of the road now!
Jul 11th 2007, 12:25 am
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Ooh when you going? I could (should) have gone on this trip but couldnt face another whirlwind visiting everyone you've ever known bash. OH only had a rental car too but he was almost late for a client meeting. Straight off a red eye and into a meeting grim, poor soul!
Dont get confused about hte side of the road now!
Dont get confused about hte side of the road now!
I will probably go back in the fall. At one time there was a 6 1/2 yr gap between visits...but as soon as I got into the tiny stick shift car...it all came back as though it was yesterday.
Jul 11th 2007, 12:33 am
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6 1/2 years that'd be way too long for me not to visit. Talking about driving I even drove down the wrong, I mean Uk side of the road here in CT. Totally wasnt thinking and slipped back into Uk mode. Wasnt even as though we'd just arrived it was about two years ago! Yikes,!! Thank god it was really early in the morning and no one was on my street. Oooops
Jul 11th 2007, 12:38 am
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6 1/2 years that'd be way too long for me not to visit. Talking about driving I even drove down the wrong, I mean Uk side of the road here in CT. Totally wasnt thinking and slipped back into Uk mode. Wasnt even as though we'd just arrived it was about two years ago! Yikes,!! Thank god it was really early in the morning and no one was on my street. Oooops
I had to have a break from the UK...to try to make a go of it here. We had our house there...so it was still very much home. We sold the house and stayed away...it worked...it did help me settle in the US.
Jul 11th 2007, 12:42 am
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Oh yes I've done that before...thank goodness it was only on a quiet road.
I had to have a break from the UK...to try to make a go of it here. We had our house there...so it was still very much home. We sold the house and stayed away...it worked...it did help me settle in the US.
I had to have a break from the UK...to try to make a go of it here. We had our house there...so it was still very much home. We sold the house and stayed away...it worked...it did help me settle in the US.
Jul 11th 2007, 12:44 am
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Oh yes I've done that before...thank goodness it was only on a quiet road.
I had to have a break from the UK...to try to make a go of it here. We had our house there...so it was still very much home. We sold the house and stayed away...it worked...it did help me settle in the US.
I had to have a break from the UK...to try to make a go of it here. We had our house there...so it was still very much home. We sold the house and stayed away...it worked...it did help me settle in the US.
Jul 11th 2007, 12:45 am
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No this isnt another thread about how all expats are really p*ssed off at having to wait at US passport control. Its about the UK. OH flew into Manchester this a.m. and had to wait over an hour to get through the British / Eurpoean National lines. The foreign national lines were even worse. Last time we flew through Manchester in Easter this year there was no one and I mean no one checking UK nationals passports.
So anyone planning an imminent flight should make for extra time if you have a train to catch or the likes.
Still, I cant believe that they did away with exit / enter checks on Brit / Euro nationals in the first place. Way back in '94, silly sods. :curse:
Forewarned is fore armed
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So anyone planning an imminent flight should make for extra time if you have a train to catch or the likes.
Still, I cant believe that they did away with exit / enter checks on Brit / Euro nationals in the first place. Way back in '94, silly sods. :curse:
Forewarned is fore armed
</IMG>
Jul 11th 2007, 1:00 am
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Re: Passport Control
No this isnt another thread about how all expats are really p*ssed off at having to wait at US passport control. Its about the UK. OH flew into Manchester this a.m. and had to wait over an hour to get through the British / Eurpoean National lines. The foreign national lines were even worse. Last time we flew through Manchester in Easter this year there was no one and I mean no one checking UK nationals passports.
So anyone planning an imminent flight should make for extra time if you have a train to catch or the likes.
Still, I cant believe that they did away with exit / enter checks on Brit / Euro nationals in the first place. Way back in '94, silly sods. :curse:
Forewarned is fore armed
</IMG>
So anyone planning an imminent flight should make for extra time if you have a train to catch or the likes.
Still, I cant believe that they did away with exit / enter checks on Brit / Euro nationals in the first place. Way back in '94, silly sods. :curse:
Forewarned is fore armed
</IMG>
Last summer I flew over to heathrow from sydney, bloody long flight and this was a 3 week vist first time in years for me, got off the plane must have been a good 45mins to get thought passport contol.(with british passport)
when I finnally got to the front I said to the lady doing the checking etc what happened to normal just waving you though if you got a British passport, she said thery have allways checked them well, for me last year thats the first time I can say in my life that thery have bothed to check the bloody thing its normally the airlines who check your passport ten times over.
I have to say after the never ending flight from Australia that was a very long wait when your bloody tired lol
Jul 11th 2007, 1:03 am
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I just wanted to add after reading your intresting post.
Last summer I flew over to heathrow from sydney, bloody long flight and this was a 3 week vist first time in years for me, got off the plane must have been a good 45mins to get thought passport contol.(with british passport)
when I finnally got to the front I said to the lady doing the checking etc what happened to normal just waving you though if you got a British passport, she said thery have allways checked them well, for me last year thats the first time I can say in my life that thery have bothed to check the bloody thing its normally the airlines who check your passport ten times over.
I have to say after the never ending flight from Australia that was a very long wait when your bloody tired lol
Last summer I flew over to heathrow from sydney, bloody long flight and this was a 3 week vist first time in years for me, got off the plane must have been a good 45mins to get thought passport contol.(with british passport)
when I finnally got to the front I said to the lady doing the checking etc what happened to normal just waving you though if you got a British passport, she said thery have allways checked them well, for me last year thats the first time I can say in my life that thery have bothed to check the bloody thing its normally the airlines who check your passport ten times over.
I have to say after the never ending flight from Australia that was a very long wait when your bloody tired lol
Jul 11th 2007, 1:05 am
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I just wanted to add after reading your intresting post.
Last summer I flew over to heathrow from sydney, bloody long flight and this was a 3 week vist first time in years for me, got off the plane must have been a good 45mins to get thought passport contol.(with british passport)
when I finnally got to the front I said to the lady doing the checking etc what happened to normal just waving you though if you got a British passport, she said thery have allways checked them well, for me last year thats the first time I can say in my life that thery have bothed to check the bloody thing its normally the airlines who check your passport ten times over.
I have to say after the never ending flight from Australia that was a very long wait when your bloody tired lol
Last summer I flew over to heathrow from sydney, bloody long flight and this was a 3 week vist first time in years for me, got off the plane must have been a good 45mins to get thought passport contol.(with british passport)
when I finnally got to the front I said to the lady doing the checking etc what happened to normal just waving you though if you got a British passport, she said thery have allways checked them well, for me last year thats the first time I can say in my life that thery have bothed to check the bloody thing its normally the airlines who check your passport ten times over.
I have to say after the never ending flight from Australia that was a very long wait when your bloody tired lol
Jul 11th 2007, 1:07 am
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