90 day limit conundrum - Page 5

L181SKY wrote on Sat Oct 23, 2021 10:33am:

I think this is your answer This has just appeared on the LOCAL.es site.  “  A UK national whose passport was not stamped by Spanish border officials has been denied entry when attempting to return to the country, highlighting the new issue of passport stamps for Brits travelling to t...

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...he Schengen Area post-Brexit.  “   

L181SKY wrote on Sat Oct 23, 2021 10:33am:

I think this is your answer This has just appeared on the LOCAL.es site.  “  A UK national whose passport was not stamped by Spanish border officials has been denied entry when attempting to return to the country, highlighting the new issue of passport stamps for Brits travelling to t...

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...he Schengen Area post-Brexit.  “   

daveewilliams wrote on Sat Oct 23, 2021 10:42am:

But I'm guessing if Whoopydo was in Alicante airport yesterday, he's now already navigated UK passport control and is back at home. 

daveewilliams wrote on Sat Oct 23, 2021 10:44am:

Any chance of posting a link to the article in question please? 

L181SKY wrote on Sat Oct 23, 2021 11:25am:

If YOU read what he wrote , he went to U.K.    “When we went through Alicante yesterday (back to UK) our passports were not scanned or stamped.”. So what was What  I wrote not relevant.   

L181SKY wrote on Sat Oct 23, 2021 11:34am:

you’ll get it on.  thelocal.es.    just scroll to “Brexit”

daveewilliams wrote on Sat Oct 23, 2021 11:37am:

I didn't say it was irrelevant but you're right. I did misread. It seems outrageous that travellers would be penalised for failures at Alicante airport and it's safe to assume he (she?) wasn't the only one waved through which is why I asked if you could post a link to the article in question. TÍ...

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...A. 

L181SKY wrote on Sat Oct 23, 2021 12:27pm:

Did you get it ok ?    It’s Awful.   Makes you think though, the ones on the desks ,do they Know it’s going to cause a real problem ?   

L181SKY wrote on Sat Oct 23, 2021 12:27pm:

Did you get it ok ?    It’s Awful.   Makes you think though, the ones on the desks ,do they Know it’s going to cause a real problem ?   

daveewilliams wrote on Sat Oct 23, 2021 2:14pm:

Wow! It's even worse than we thought. It seems it IS the physical stamp that border control are looking for and not a digital stamp. If one passport controller is just waving travellers through at Alicante then chances are others will be as well. Also if he/she is waving one traveller through, he...

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...'s probably waving everyone through. There must be literally thousands of UK residents who have potentially fallen foul of this. The answer of course is to insist that your passport is stamped but a) easier said than done, and b) I'll bet hardly anyone appreciates the importance of the passport stamp post-Brexit, especially the less frequent flyer. As I say, Wow!!