The new EU passport control system for non-EU is totally idiotic and crap and will permanently make holidaying in Europe worse

As the spouse of an EU citizen, travelling together, you should be able to go through with them.

Compare the EU system to our system with ours that allows UK, Ireland, EU countries, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, United States passports to go through the e-gates.

Funny that Irish citizens are exempt owing to being in the EU then.

Given that the UK was never a member of the Schengen agreement, this would have happened if we were part of the EU

If anything it reinforces why it was a positive to leave...the EU can't organise a piss up in a brewery. This system has been delayed time and time again. We visited Tenerife in January, we registered and used the system to enter...it was broken when we left a week later.

So the EU have introduced a system that fails repeatedly, doesn't seem to have clear guidelines and fails to do what it was intended to do, regulate and monitor who comes and goes.

So British people, who take more holidays abroad than most countries (70 million I believe) will visit Turkey, north Africa, Dubai etc (when Trump stops fing around) rather than the EU to the detriment to those countries

Got back from Malaga last week. Arriving was a complete nightmare. Long queue of people trying to complete the information on the screens, with just 1 person to help. Took ages to get through to the final page that says go to the e-gates. Except you don't. You then had the long regular security queues where they stamp your passport. I don't want to think about what it'll be like in summer.

On the way back I was stressing as I was told to allow loads of time to get through the new checks but when I got to control there were no queues, the officer took my passport, scanned it on the machine for me, I went to the desk for passport stamping (still no queue) and I was through.

weren't we promised frictionless movement and trade?

didn't some people say that exactly this would happen?

much better off blaming everyone else than the people who promised unicorns eh, they wouldn't have lied for their own gain would they?

Bloody remainers fault clearly

Definitely trying to punish us. It’s ludicrous because technically once you have done it you are not supposed to have to do it again. However each time I have traveled since it came in I have had to go through the checks again. I know someone who works for a coach company and he travels weekly and every single time he has to go through this daft rigmarole.

What utter tripe.

Shall we just rejoin then? Seems as good a reason as blue passports.

EU incompetence & bureacracy every single f-ing time. And no, nothing to do with security as we can tell by the 100s of 1000s of illegals Europe is pushing in our direction.

I took a short break to Rome in January and was surprised at how quick we got through passport control. Both DH and I are UK passport holders and passport control were literally waiting for us. We were through quicker than the EU passport queue.

Is that through the airport at Jerez which most UK carriers seems to use, or the actual airport at Seville.? Interested in the answer either way.😀

It's all adding so much stress to journeys to and from the EU now. Well for those with non EU passports anyway. I'd hate it, says she clutching her EU passport with super glue!

Even so, the queues can be dreadful for EU passport holders also. I often wonder if it's a subtle go slow on behalf of border control agents.... I mean, take Malaga for example, they have refurbished the airport etc. but the airport operator AENA don't seem to have any say in making the immigration system any more efficient. I can't understand it. But hey manana, manana I suppose. And maybe the immigration is a Government operation, outside the control of the airport operator.

My DH wants to go to Barcelona region later in the year (wars and fuel permitting). We've decided if we do go that we'll use REUS instead of El Prat and stay in Tarragona, travelling into BC for a couple of day trips. REUS being a smaller airport. It's adding more decisions to what should be a straightforward journey to Barcelona and back. IMO anyway! And that's WITH EU passports!

You Brexiteers are to blame for this. We would have seemless travel with no stipulations if we had remained in the EU.

Yes the UK needs tourist money. Genius idea then to vote for Brexit and make travel loads more complicated, costly and inconvenient for our nearest neighbours.
DP works in a field that’s related and the financial loss to UK institutions and attractions is significant.

It is the business of the border force to ascertain why people are coming into the UK and where from.

I’m in the same boat. When passport control asks if you’re travelling with anyone I say with my EU husband and point in the vague direction of the arrivals bar and I’m let through.

Re Malaga airport, coming in, machines couldn't recognise my fingerprints so directed to manual border check, massive queues. Was dreadful.
I was so worried on leaving, however, we went extra early, went straight to passport checks after security, didn't linger, looking at shops etc, there was no queue and this time we went straight to the passport control, followed the instructions by the border officer, fingerprint machine worked first time and we were through. Then we could relax!
When we dropped the bags off, we were told which gate area to go to, this was Jet 2.

I can think of a popular non European holiday destination where that happens.