The infilling of part of Dover harbour has started (and been kept very quiet nationally)
This is to create a large car park so that they have some space to to deal with the long delayed ETIAS biometric checks for entry to the EU.
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However this not going to create anything like the space they will need when even by their own estimates.
A couple of years in, after people have gone through the process a few times, they think they can get the pass through period to under 10 minutes per car.
(It's currently about 45 seconds.)
Initially with a fail rate of between 20% and 80% (My personal experience was 100% fail rate for the first 5-10 times) you could be looking at 30-40 minutes per car load.
Which means one Immigration Officer could be dealing with about 20 vehicles per shift on a bad day
Or 50-60 vehicles on a good day.
At the moment one Immigration Officer can deal with about 50 vehicles per hour.
However; It's what the majority wanted, so for once the recent UK Governments have delivered exactly what they voted for.
This is to create a large car park so that they have some space to to deal with the long delayed ETIAS biometric checks for entry to the EU.
Story here
However this not going to create anything like the space they will need when even by their own estimates.
A couple of years in, after people have gone through the process a few times, they think they can get the pass through period to under 10 minutes per car.
(It's currently about 45 seconds.)
Initially with a fail rate of between 20% and 80% (My personal experience was 100% fail rate for the first 5-10 times) you could be looking at 30-40 minutes per car load.
Which means one Immigration Officer could be dealing with about 20 vehicles per shift on a bad day
Or 50-60 vehicles on a good day.
At the moment one Immigration Officer can deal with about 50 vehicles per hour.
However; It's what the majority wanted, so for once the recent UK Governments have delivered exactly what they voted for.