All UK (and Irish) citizens have a passport check when entering the Schengen zone. The airport was training new employees, hence the extra long queues.

However when everything is agreed upon, the UK won't even be in the European Economic Area and won't be able to use the shorter passport line. The "Other" (longer) line will have to be used (unless something is negotiated).

Incidentally when I travel to the UK with my family I always go into the "Other" line (and my family enter the "Other" line when coming back to the US). As a family we want to stay together, even though when entering the UK I can use the UK Citizens line and when entering the US my wife and kids can use the US Citizens line. We just don't want to split up. Sometimes a staff member managing the "others" queue will see us together in the queue and send all of us into the "citizens" queue as we would be quicker to process.

Italian customs let me go with my husband in the EU line.

TBH - I'm a bit leery of traveling to Scotland this summer.

You're no longer citizens of Europe - that was your choice

The following is what this thread first brought to my mind.





-Laelth

All they wanted was to get rid of those troublesome immigrants from places like Syria who left home on a whim hoping to take advantage of UK public benefits—not because their homes and towns had been blown to smithereens! UK residents are used to traveling freely throughout the EU and taking jobs in other countries. That’s over unless the EU agrees to give some extraordinary privileges just to UK citizens. I don’t see that happening because it sets a bad precedent for other countries that may want to leave.

said to me yesterday. He was utterly clueless about the implications of Brexit apart from the glib one liners, like Johnson's Get Brexit Done slogan during the last election. There was no point trying to explain how screwed up that decision was, so I just said that it IS in the past now. While immigration was his second point, I informed him that it was the British government's decision not to implement the 7 year delay on allowing workers from new EU states the right to work in the UK. He didn't know about that.

The other thing that shocked him was me informing him that if it all goes wrong for the UK, and they decide to rejoin the EU, they would have to make a fresh application to become a member, meaning that they would get none of the opt outs they had previously, like not having to join the Eurozone or not joining the Schengen area. He was genuinely shocked !!!!

Did you really have any idea what you were getting into when you voted for Brexit? Didn't think so. Did ya fall for Farage's self-serving bullshit?