Passengers Hit Out At Manchester Airport Passport Control Queues

Photographs have emerged of passengers having to queue for up to an hour to get through passport control upon arriving at Manchester Airport.

The image showing the huge delays was snapped on Sunday afternoon. Martin Walsh, who took the photo, said it was the 'same old story.'

Martin, from Shaw, had returned from Amsterdam with his partner. He said, "It took us ten minutes to get through the airport in Amsterdam and only took us an hour to fly back. We have been waiting for around 30 minutes and it looks like there's at least 30 minutes to go."

A spokeswoman for the Home Office insisted there were no long waits beyond the 'service level agreement' for EU/EEU nationals, which is 25 minutes, on a Sunday.

But she accepted that non-EU/EEU nationals were forced to wait for 55 minutes – ten minutes longer than the agreed time. She continued:

"The security of our border is paramount — which is why 100 per cent of scheduled passengers are checked when arriving in the UK.

"While every effort is made to keep delays for passengers to a minimum, when very large numbers of passengers arrive in a short space of time, it can mean a longer wait while these essential border security checks are conducted."

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