Uk tourists must pass two new checks to enter 'any' eu country

HOLIDAYMAKERS WILL BE REQUIRED TO NOT ONLY BE IN POSSESSION OF A PASSPORT, BUT WILL ALSO NEED A FINGERPRINT CHECK AND A PICTURE TAKEN. 09:01, 04 Jun 2025 Fingerprint checks have been

announced for UK tourists who wish to "enter any European Union (EU) country". British holidaymakers will be required to not only be in possession of a passport, but will also need

a fingerprint check and a picture taken. Doug Bannister, responsible for the Port of Dover told The Guardian, that this is due to the delay on the implementation of the EU high-tech

biometric app. According to the report, they expect that this extra step will only increase car journey times by six more minutes than usual. But some critics believe that the time will not

apply to truck drivers, which number more than 10,000 a day at the Port of Dover. READ MORE ALL THE PARTS OF ENGLAND SET FOR 'AT LEAST 30C' NEXT WEEK IN UK HEATWAVE “Significant

infrastructure” including reclaiming 13 hectares of land in the Port of Dover to handle passengers getting out of cars and buses has been put in place to try to minimise disruption,

Bannister said this week. “We have been told that any app won’t be ready any time before November, but hopefully it could come swiftly after that,” said Bannister. Article continues below

“[It means] second, third, fourth time travellers still need to have a biometric captured at the border,” he said. The update from Bannister means passengers will still have to get out of

their vehicle for border checks until the app is ready, he told the Guardian newspaper this week. The port prides itself on the speed with which it operates, the leader of the port told the

national newspaper ahead of the shake-up for Brits. Article continues below And Mr Bannister says it can load and off-load a ferry “with 120 trucks, 1,000 passengers and a couple of hundred

cars in 45 minutes, faster than an A320 at Gatwick”. “In an airport you have a nice, air-conditioned, well-lit hall, and an orderly queue of foot passengers going through. But we needed to

cater for a carload of four people on a large, stormy night. So we couldn’t have people exit their vehicles [in the ferry queues]," he said. He wanred: "That would be dangerous.”