Eurostar passport control update

[Peterthegreat]

Just passed through St Pancras and it looks like they're doing a - relatively unadvertised - trial of allowing UK passport holders to use the French e-gates. They've got a set cordoned off from the rest with signage inviting UK (and select other non-EU) passport holders to use them, and a French officer in a booth behind them doing the stamping.

That was also in operation in July.

 

[kevin_roche]

Just passed through St Pancras and it looks like they're doing a - relatively unadvertised - trial of allowing UK passport holders to use the French e-gates. They've got a set cordoned off from the rest with signage inviting UK (and select other non-EU) passport holders to use them, and a French officer in a booth behind them doing the stamping.

So are they still stamping UK passports which have been checked by the gates? Unlike the Spanish who did not bother to stamp mine on my last two visits to Lanzarote.

 

[route101]

So are they still stamping UK passports which have been checked by the gates? Unlike the Spanish who did not bother to stamp mine on my last two visits to Lanzarote.

I used a French E gate at Calais and was stamped out. Spain should really be stamping your passport.