Immigration Controls: Commonwealth

(asked on 18th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will introduce priority passport checking gates for citizens entering the UK from (a) Australia, (b) New Zealand and (c) other Commonwealth realms.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 26th February 2019

The Government has already announced that, from this summer, nationals of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Singapore as well as those from Japan, South Korea and USA will be permitted to use our ePassport gates when crossing the UK border.

The enabling legislation has recently completed its passage through Parliament and the change is on track to be implemented as planned.

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