Originally Posted by
nighthawk117
- Immigration in to carlisle took an age. Border force dont seem to have passport scanners, but instead manually type passport details into laptops to process them
- Apparently on the first day they were giving out 70 numbered leather passport covers to incoming passengers. None of these were being given out on day 2, so either they used them all and inbound loads were decent, or they just didnt bother.
Immigration coming from Dublin? That's new. It's the CTA so no passports are technically required. At best it would usually be Police/Special branch doing I.D checks. I suppose that UK Border Force just finding jobs to do to show their "authority"...