British citizens will need Their fingers have been scanned Whenever they go European Union Due to delay in development of digital biometrics software.
Every British passenger entering the Schengen region will need to get out of his car to get out of his car and individually fingerprint. A spokes for Dover port, Which provides transit and trade facilities with countries like France and Netherlands Independent The plans will be rolled out in the autumn.
This is because a new biometric entry-check system was expected to be implemented last year for the citizens of the non-European Union, but has been postponed.
Independent Initially Informed on delay in new system At the end of 2024, with the suggestion that the demand for fingers can be quietly demolished.
Dag Banister, Chief Executive Officer of Port, told Mentor This will be “business as usual” in this summer, but said that a major change in travel would be phased from November.
A person’s fingerprint or a picture of his face will be tested with their passport number on every trip. Technology is being used to eliminate the “wet stamping” of passports and an automatic recording of the duration of visitors in the mainland Europe.
In time, installed on an app UK Border Force Each person intends to pass the bullets in the car to verify the fingers of the person.
However, Mr. Banister said that the app, which has been developed by the European Union’s Border Agency Frontx, will not be ready at any time before November, but it is expected that it may come fast after that “. Frontx stated that each member depended on the state to implement its use.
Mr. Banister admitted that “the second, third, fourth time passengers still need to capture a biometric on the border”. This means that passengers will still need to get out of their vehicles every time the app is ready.
There Important infrastructure reform In an attempt to reduce the disruption in cross-border transport.
To accommodate passengers descending from cars and buses, the port of Dover is recovering 13 hectares of land.
In a solution supported by the UK and French governments, the port stated that it would create a virtual system at a distance of 1.5 miles in the area around the port for the check.
Mr. Banister is sure that the upcoming inspection at the port, which handles 10,000 trucks and 15,000 passenger cars every day during summer, will require only six minutes for each visit.
