BRITS heading to Europe could soon find it much easier thanks to new plans allowing holidaymakers to use airport e-gates.
Since the UK left the EU, British tourists have faced huge queues at the airport across Europe after being forced to use the standard passport gates.
However, the UK government has revealed plans of a deal that would allow UK holidaymakers to use the much faster e-gates when visiting Europe.
The talks, part of the taking place today, suggest Brits would join other EU tourists in the shorter queues, The Guardian reports.
EU relations minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said he backed the potential rule change.
He told Sky News: “I would love to see you being able to go through the border more quickly in that way.
“That’s certainly something we’ve been pushing with the EU and I think that will be something that will be very helpful to British people.
“I think we can all agree that not being stuck in queues and having more time to spend, whether it’s on holiday or work trips, having more time to do what you want, would be a very sensible objective.”;;
Plans to allow Brits to use e-gates in European countries although never came into fruition.
Last summer, when travelling through Spain due to long passport queues while waiting to get them stamped.
Another Brit wrote on Tripadvisor: “My lunchtime arrival at Oslo left me with an hour and a half wait to get through manual passport control.”;;
Another agreed: “The queue was horrendous, people couldn’t even get into the passport hall. Took just over 90 minutes to get through.”;;
However, the new rules could cause problems with passport stamping, which is still required from Brits entering and exiting Europe.
This is because of the new rules which only allow Brits to visit for 90 days in an 180 day period.
Anyone without an outgoing stamp could be mistakenly seen to have overstayed in Europe and even be banned from entering – which happened to a
But it comes ahead of the cwhich will scrap the need for passport stamping entirely.
First announced in 2016, it finally hopes to be rolled out from October this year.
Instead of manual passport stamping, new biometric checks will take place instead.
And next year will see the – a visa waiver that Brits will need to visit Europe.
Costing around €7 and lasting three years, it will be similar to the current
