Immigration: Cyprus and Malta

(asked on 5th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to extend preferential e-gate access at airports and ports to citizens of (a) Malta and (b) Cyprus after the end of the transition period.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 10th November 2020

The Government has already confirmed EU, EEA and Swiss citizens will continue to be able to use e-Gates to enter the UK after the end of the transition period. The necessary legislative change to allow this was made by a Statutory Instrument laid in Parliament on 22 October.

No distinction will be made at the end of the transition period between citizens of different EU and EEA countries: citizens of Malta and Cyprus will have the same entitlement to use e-Gates as citizens of all other EEA countries.

This policy will be kept under review to ensure we continue to run our border in the UK’s best interests.

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