Australian Dual Citizens Entering UK after February

[MEL_Traveller]

Eurostar will check ETAs electronically before they let you into the secure area.

If you manage to have a valid ETA in a foreign passport despite being a British citizen, nothing will be different.

France does not care about the UK's rules. In fact, having Eurostar enforce the ETA helps France.

Previously, France would not know who might be refused entry to the UK. Now, the majority of people who would have been denied entry to the UK, will be filtered out by Eurostar's ETA checks, so they won't even get to the exit controls of France.

Yes. That’s logical.

I guess it’s the same in most places… the airline/carrier does the checks… the actual passport control doesn’t!

 

[Peter D]

With Eurostar both outgoing emigration checks and destination immigration checks are done before one boards the train.

Last time I departed from Brussels the sequence was

1. Ticket checks (but I can’t remember if they wanted to check a passport as well).

2. Belgian outgoing passport control.

3. British destination passport control.

The platform and train was then a secure area. With no checks at London. Just walk out.

I had arrived in the Schengen area via Switzerland with an Australian passport, I mistakenly presented my British passport to the Belgian official for scanning who instantly knew what was happening and simply asked “do you have two passports”. He allowed me out on my Australian passport and 3 or 4 metres later I entered Britain presenting the British passport.

More recently departing from London to Amsterdam same sequence.

Eurostar ticket check. British departure controls and I think it was French officials controlling the entry for Schengen countries. All done in same place. Could then get off at any station in Belgium or Netherlands without further control.