Some problems with the procedures appearing already.
Well, didn’t see any signs for this on our way into Dover though it was still dark yesterday morning when we arrived. We checked in and through passport control without any hold ups. Only one was that customs wanted to check the car which they did - even loooked under the bonnet/hood strangely.
Maybe they were checking for beef…
Yes, saw that thread, but if we put meat in there it would have been well done by the time we got home. 
UK was a founding member of EFTA but left when it joined the common market in 1973
Anyone been through Dover since this EES thing started? If so, how’s it going? We’re off to the UK again soon.
Seems still having problems and delayed yet again.
Fresh delay for new EU border checks at Dover amid technical problems - BBC News
Easy Jet dropping the ball big time in Milan.
EasyJet leaves 122 passengers behind due to EU entry-exit system chaos
Er, No. Passengers not reaching the gate on time is not the airline’s fault. They have a schedule to complete and passengers down line expecting their aircraft to arrive so it can depart.
And, exceptionally, they are allowing passengers who showed up late to rebook on other flights without charge.
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The issue is not well explained in that MSN article. The problem is that Easyjet advise people to arrive 3h before but then do not allow them to drop their bags until 2h before. Then there is not enough time to process through bag drop and passport control at many airports.
It was reported rather more succinctly/clearly in this Guardian article last week
They were also not allowed through Passport control until their gate was available - and it wasn’t.
This is often because the arriving plane is late. That would be on EasyJet.
Greece saying nope to the new system atm for Brits.
Greece drops EU entry-exit biometrics for British travellers
A site for info/news on EITAS.
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Not even Swiss Efficiency is exempt from the EES issues.
The Lovely Missus flew into Zurich on the Easyjet flight from Manchester on the evening of Thurs 16th April. The flight time was 1 hour 30 mins. She was in row 3 so one of the first off the flight.
Getting through the non-EU queue at Zurich passport control then took 2 hours 43 mins, in a massively overheated immigration hall. Only 4 booths were open for hundreds of passengers. By the time she did get through, all the baggage from that flight had gone missing because it had been removed from the belt by baggage staff and piled somewhere else…
To save time, I’d pre-bought her rail ticket with 1 hour validity based on the train I initially thought we’d catch. Of course, it was long expired by the time we eventually travelled, so I had to pay again.
The software may be great but the UX is rubbish…
Kind regards
Ian
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I gather it was just your wife flying and you met her at the airport? Or did they make the two of you go through separate lines?
I’m trying to figure out if I can still go through the CH/EEA/EU lines with my CH wife or if we’ll have to subject our infant to those BS wait times.
Personally, i’d walk thru the CH line with infants.
Irrespective of infant’s passport, CH mother is enough.
At the least, i expect CH immigration person not to raise any fuss.
How about the Italians? lol Next trip is MXP and our consulate has basically said no way in heck that infant will be registered and have Swiss passport by July so she’ll have to travel on the Canadian one. Thankfully, I insisted my wife get her Swiss passport (she was regisitered as a teenager, but never got the doc). I’m leaning towards using the line and asking forgiveness if anyone complains but I’m a touch uptight about putting even a toe out of line since I hit six years next year.
Turnaround for a Swiss passport is fairly quick. I’m surprised someone told you it wouldn’t be possible by July.
Is the infant already Swiss?
Wow! So unlucky. We came from Manchester last week and our flight was the only one for the passport control at that terminal at that moment. I believe even non-EU/CH passengers were done in 5-10 min.
My wife had a replacement for her Swiss passport in about a week-including being sent to her by Registered mail. She could have picked it up in Lausanne sooner.