The reduced checks were introduced following concerns in airports and in government at the length of
the queues at immigration checks.
It was used 50 times in Heathrow alone this summer, notably when planes were being held in the air because of the length of
queues at immigration.
Airport operator BAA which is responsible for Heathrow, Stansted, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen airports, said: «Certainly there will be
queues at immigration, there's no doubt of that.»
I doubt we'll see much change in the traditional European holiday scene, except that Brits will have to join a different
queue at immigration.
The launching of Immigration on Board gives foreign travelers the freedom to bypass
queues at the immigration counters and have a more pleasant travel experience in Indonesia.
Not exact matches
The injured are still injured, Andre Ayew is busy scoring penalties
at the African Cup of Nations and Cheikhou Kouyate continues to
queue at Heathrow
immigration.
A lifesaver
at the airports, when they wouldn't be held, and the
immigration / security
queues were long!
And for those of us who spend a lot of time in airports travelling for work, what matters far more is whether we end up facing long
queues with non EU nationals
at immigration counters before we can get to that all important meeting in Frankfurt.
According to him, passengers traveling through the airport have some relief from the congestion and long
queues that characterized activities
at the arrival and
immigration halls
at the airport.
Young people got up
at dawn, and formed long
queues in stadiums and parks, in the hope of getting a job with the Ghana
Immigration Service.
One result is obvious: the long
queues of people, nationals and non-nationals alike, that snake around Heathrow's
immigration hall if you're unfortunate enough to arrive
at a busy time.
Some of the most effective propaganda
at the time — you may remember [former Ukip leader Nigel] Farage's advertisements — were
queues of dark - faced people, and that was an argument about
immigration being prevented.
And above all, any
immigration policy must have fairness
at its heart, fairness to those already settled here and those who arrive as migrants, fairness so that nobody is exploited, nobody is trafficked, nobody is squeezed out, nobody can jump the
queue and those who work hard are fairly rewarded.
Most EU
immigration is of white people, so if wanting to end EU free movement of labour is racist
at all then it is against white people rather than against non-white workers around the world who suffer because white Europeans get to be head of the
queue for entering the UK.
Biometric passports are now, of course, ubiquitous, and next time you're shuffling along in an
immigration queue you can
at least remind yourself that New Scientist told you so.
More recently, the
queue system
at immigrations was enhanced to make it faster and more efficient and free Wi - Fi access was provided throughout the terminal.