Dublin Airport T2 Arrivals Passport Control

bamboozle

Are the Gardai on a go slow or something? took half an hour to get through here last night, 2 gardai covering the non EU and 2 covering the EU passports, yet 99.9% of people were EU passport holders which resulted in q's of hundreds of people.

After a while the non eu gates were finally opened up to EU passport holders.

Dreadful first impression of this country to tourists.

bkehoe

I thought, and have always just gone to the 'All Passports/Non EU' lines at various airports, including Dublin, if there is a queue at any other desk and many other people do too.

FunkyDa2

The problem with the 'non-EU' queue, although it may be shorter than the 'EU' queue, is that it can move very slowly if the people ahead of you are being questioned extensively.

stop

Does T2 have a bypass of passport control for flights from the UK/internal? So annoying being checked with everyone else when we're not supposed to.

BuffyBot

No, it doesn't.

L1011

stop wrote: »

Does T2 have a bypass of passport control for flights from the UK/internal? So annoying being checked with everyone else when we're not supposed to.

It doesn't and neither does/did T1 (in the past decade, maybe before).

There's a limited number of airports in the CTA that have this, Gatwick being the only one I use with any frequency.

veetwin

From wikipedia;

In 1997, Ireland changed its immigration legislation to allow immigration officers to examine (i.e. request identity documents from) travellers arriving in the state from elsewhere in the Common Travel Area and to refuse them permission to land if they are not entitled to enter.[2] Although this is stated to apply only to people other than Irish and British citizens, both of the latter groups are effectively covered as they may be required to produce identity documents to prove that they are entitled to the Common Travel Area arrangements. Although it is difficult to be exact about the nature of current border checks fixed controls are only maintained at ports and airports[28] while targeted controls are conducted along the land border in what are referred to as "intelligence driven operations".[29] All passengers arriving in Ireland from the United Kingdom by air now pass through Irish border controls, administered by the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB). While British citizens are not required to be in possession of a valid travel document as a condition of entry to Ireland, they are required to satisfy immigration officials of their nationality.
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Basically British or Irish people are not obliged to show passport when arriving from the UK. Trouble is (a) how does the immigration officer know who is British or Irish?
(b) how does he know they have arrived from the UK?

At any one time the officer could be dealing with flights from 3 or 4 locations.

End result everybody is asked for a passport or other acceptable document.

L1011

We legally require photo ID for flights as a separate requirement to the CTA rules.