Timeline for Why must you clear UK immigration when connecting to Ireland in spite of Irish border checks?
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| Sep 12, 2017 at 10:30 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackTravel/status/907551948198629376 | ||
| Sep 11, 2017 at 20:40 | vote | accept | Crazydre | ||
| Aug 31, 2017 at 16:56 | comment | added | Gayot Fow | @JonathanReez it was resolved in chat IIRC and Crazydre has summarised the chat session. At least somewhat. Partial, no links, in-a-hurry. I'll abstain from voting to see if his answer is more conclusive with successive edits. Thanks for the courtesy of bring this question to my attention.. | |
| Aug 31, 2017 at 16:51 | answer | added | Crazydre | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 29, 2017 at 9:23 | comment | added | Calchas | @Crazydre Your photo would have been taken immediately post-passports. But that is a good question. | |
| Aug 29, 2017 at 8:30 | comment | added | Crazydre | @Calchas If you try this loophole with the current System, and lack papers to enter UK, what would happen when going through the transit corridor with a boarding pass to DUB and then asking to leave the airport? Once they find out your photo wasn't taken? Would the ground staff call the Border Force and have them deal with the passenger? | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 21:12 | comment | added | Calchas | You wouldn't even need to fly back, you could just go to a service desk, present yourself as a domestic-originating passenger who no longer wishes to fly to DUB, and ask to leave the airport. A photo match will be done against your boarding pass and you are free to go. If you set this up correctly, it would be very hard (or impossible) to distinguish you from a domestic-originating pax (perhaps one who came to this airport on a domestic flight from another terminal on a different ticket) who, of course, need not carry a passport to go to Ireland. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 19:24 | comment | added | Gayot Fow | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 19:03 | comment | added | Crazydre | @GayotFow Yep, all good! | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 18:26 | comment | added | Gayot Fow | Unrelated, but tangentially useful, this is also linked in the archives as a US/Canada agreement entering force at about the same time. treaty-accord.gc.ca/text-texte.aspx?id=105246 I assume you are OK and don't need a formal answer. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 18:09 | comment | added | Gayot Fow | Yes, but sporadically, nobody knows how many people are assigned to the operation, but it cannot be discounted. What does kick off every time is the 2013 UK/US agreement (which the ROI also signed). So take your pick. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 17:52 | comment | added | Crazydre | @GayotFow Ah K, so once you present yourself at the UK border (say at Gatwick) and declare that you're going to Ireland, Operation Gull kicks in? | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 17:50 | comment | added | Gayot Fow | Yes, Belfast and all international ports in southern England. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 17:46 | comment | added | Crazydre | @GayotFow I thought that pertained to Northern Irish air and ferryports | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 17:39 | comment | added | Gayot Fow | Have you examined, or studied, "Operation Gull"? It is still in effect and is likely to remain in effect for long time. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 16:50 | history | asked | Crazydre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |