Biometrics checks due to be introduced by the EU in November would see non-EU visitors have four fingerprints scanned and a photograph taken Joe Duggan reports
Under the EES scheme, anyone arriving from outside the EU, including the UK, must have four fingerprints scanned and a photograph taken.
Coaches wait to enter the Port of Dover on Sunday as thousands of holidaymakers were caught up in travel chaos in the run-up to Easter But he questioned if French authorities had sufficiently “embraced new technology” to carry out biometrics checks and whether they could be brought in this year “without making things a whole lot worse”.
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