British travellers will need to scan their passports or other travel document at a self-service kiosk at Spanish airports as part of the new Entry/Exit System which is set to be launched across the European Union from October this year. The new system will prove exceptionally useful for controlling the length stay of British and other non-European Union citizens (non-residents) who can only spend 180 days in the European Union (in two blocks of two). There are fears that the much-delayed system could lead to airport problems.
British travellers braced for different border controls when they enter Spain
It will be able to control the 90 days rule
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MaryYou are sounding too much like your strident mate Morgan again. You really should try harder before trying to emulate him. So, in my opinion, should Que Pasa
It sounds like an excellent system and it will catch overstayers. EES effectively takes part of the process out of Spain's hands because it is linked to a central database where the calculation is made on behalf border control. All non EU nationals be hived off to a separate section for EES and (later on) ETIAS checks. Obviously EU nationals and EU residents are exempt. There is no campaign in Spain to overturn the 90/180 Schengen rule. The so called special visa in France died a complete death and there are no plans to change anything anywhere so please stop peddling this nonsense. The UK chose to lose EU freedom of movement and made a lot of very unpleasant noise in the process remember?
Here we go round the roundabout........
It's just more "poor abused Brits" clickbait. In the end, aside from having to register initially (and pay the outrageous sum of 6 quid) I suspect it will make entry and exit much faster and simpler ...even for Brits. And let's not forget... Most of the rest of the world also has a 90 day stay limitation. And it even applies to Brits. Britain doesn't have that limitation, but that's Britain. Yet Britain has precious little knowledge of how many unregistered immigrants are living there, because there's little need for people to identify themselves or prove legal status. And that's very attractive to economic migrants. Talk about irony... The big fury and outrage in British politics is immigration numbers. Yet they're spending so much political (and fiscal) capital on Rwanda, which has little to do with immigration (other than "boat people" asylum seekers, which accounts for a tiny fraction of immigrants to the UK). The UK could learn something here, instead of incessantly "fury and outraging" about it, and fabricating reasons to be "fury and outraged".
Charles Dalrymple-ChumleyWho do you mean by “they’re”? These are EU rulings not Spain’s. And the rulings won’t just apply to British visitors either. The MDB always seems to imply this is purely a Spain vs UK matter. Neither is Spain applying to change anything. That’s all in the editor’s head. He has never provided a source despite being repeatedly asked for one. I have neither read nor heard any mention of it anywhere else except the British tabloids. Hardly a reliable source. This article is so badly worded. Nothing new. “…who can only spend 180 days in the European Union (in two blocks of two)” it says. Two blocks of two what? How about “you cannot stay more than 90 days in any 180 day rolling period”? “Spain wants the 180 days ruling to be changed” it says Apart from the idea that Spain wanting anything changed being completely fake anyway, I thought it was the 90 day ruling we were supposed to want to change, not the 180 days. Honestly some of the articles published in the MDB on this issue are so confusing they just make matters worse for would be visitors.
On the one hand they are applying to change the 90 day rule and on the other hand they're introducing more stringent ways to police visitors' stays. Go figure!