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Originally Posted by Paul
When we went to Tenerife, we also had to use the non EU channels, where they quickly "checked" our passports and stamped them (in and out). We did not face 5 hour delays. In fact, by far the longest delay was getting back into the country at the UK border, after we landed, where they insist in using those dreadful automated passport machines that take 10 times longer than a human.
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I've had a delay getting back into the U.K quite often at Calais and likewise it's been the U.K border that is the issue but it's also partly because they now have to check every EU citizen. They want to know if they have the right to remain or if they're visiting. So an EU citizen with a right to remain holds up the line and each tourist is checked to make sure they're going to return after.
Those machines check the right to remain status.