From Friday, EU citizens who do not live in the UK will not be able to use their ID cards to enter British border posts. However, EU citizens legally residing in the UK can still enter the country with an ID card for at least four years.
Britain’s Home Office briefly said on Friday that ID cards were among the most misused in the UK Border Protection experience.
According to the wallet, nearly half of the fake identity documents discovered at British border checkpoints last year were in EU countries and the European Economic Area, as well as in Switzerland.
The rule change, which will phase out the use of ID cards to enter the UK from Friday, will apply equally to citizens of this group of countries.
According to a decision by the British Home Office on Friday, ID cards can easily be misused by those who wish to enter Britain illegally.
The British Border Police’s failure to accept these ID cards from Friday will allow the British government to prevent organized crime groups and illegal immigrants from entering these documents illegally, the Home Office in London said in a statement.
According to the ministry, ID cards are notoriously unsafe as travel documents, as there are still some cards that do not contain biometrics.
However, ID cards make checking databases of convicted criminals more difficult than passports.
The British Home Office said that despite the introduction of new security standards for ID cards in the European Union, ID cards that do not meet these standards will be in circulation for 5-10 years, and these documents are easier to forge than passports. Friday… its decision.
At the same time, the wallet asserts that EU citizens who are legally incorporated in the UK will be able to use their ID cards to enter until at least 2025, when the UK government is committed to protecting the acquired rights of EU citizens living in the UK.
Britain withdrew from the European Union on January 31 last year, but EU citizens who have settled legally and habitually in the country until the end of the 11-month transition period after Britain’s membership of the European Union (Brexit) expires in 2020 may still hold on to everything. their acquired rights. However, they must apply for a residence permit for an indefinite period, a status that is created under an official legal name.
According to the latest summary from the UK Home Office, 6,159,800 citizens of 27 EU member states living in the UK have applied for residency by August 31.
According to the Ministry’s statistics, the number of Hungarian citizens who have applied for a permanent residence permit in Great Britain has exceeded 155 thousand.
