Cathy Adams

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271 appearances 5 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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So it's a digital border system.

And, you know, broadly, I think everybody supports the idea.

We have digital borders here in the UK, you know, in the US, in Australia.

And it's supposed to essentially catch overstayers from, this applies to us, obviously Brits since Brexit, the 90 days and 180 day rule.

So it's...

It's very hard.

It's a digital border system.

So when non-EU passengers arrive at an EU airport or an EU border, they have to provide their biometrics.

So they'll scan their passport.

They then get their fingers scanned.

They get their face scanned.

And that then kind of is entered into the European record, if you like.

And then every time they arrive or leave, that's a crucial one.

So I think people do forget that it's on exit as well.

They then have their biometrics, one piece of biometric information kind of re-scanned against their record.

So it sounds simple.

And, you know, this is obviously something that lots of travellers are very used to doing all over the world.

But I think given that, you know, prior to this, the entry and exit rules were different.

They were just manual checks done very, very quickly.

The EU has said that it will only sort of add a minute, 90 seconds to your processing time.

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