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Quick question about border control when travelling with child with different passport

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elQuintoConyo · 28/06/2023 17:57

Hello!

I``m flying to the UK soon with my daughter.

I have a British passport, hers is Spanish.

Possibly dumb question, but: which queue should we be in, EU or UK?

Is it better she stays with me in the UK queue?

TIA

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suburbophobe · 28/06/2023 18:02

Yes, I'd go to the UK one.
Going to the EU one they'll probably send you there anyway.

Bilingualspingual · 28/06/2023 18:04

I have a GB passport, dh and dd Irish, they always let me go with them and I’m an adult. Please don’t worry about it at all.

elQuintoConyo · 28/06/2023 20:43

Phew! Thanks so much, it's put my mind at rest. Not normally such a worrier, but it's our first trip back since Brexit.

Thanks again!

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Hoppinggreen · 28/06/2023 20:47

We travel regularly to several EU countries. DH and the DC have EU passports but I don’t and we always go in the EU queue both in and out of an EU country.
We went to Portugal last year and had 3 EU and 3 GB passports as still went through the EU queue. It was great as 3 British flights had just arrived and the non EU queue was very long

BeccaBean · 29/06/2023 06:18

When my DH only had a non-EU passport and me and DD had UK, we were told by an immigration officer that we could all use UK when travelling together at UK airports. I flew into Heathrow at Easter and seem to recall a single queue for UK/EU and a handful of other countries like US/Australia vs all other countries queue?

MeeThree · 29/06/2023 06:24

The EU and UK queue is the same in the UK anyway

elQuintoConyo · 08/07/2023 09:31

Thanks for all your input.

I flew into Stansted (lucky me - not!) and we went throught he queue for e-passports, so that solved that problem. I had our Spanish family book and a letter ofpermission to travel without DH, but nothing was needed! All that fuss over nothing.

We[re back now, had a fantastic holiday :)

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