stopz wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 2:44 am
Will I get into trouble if I come back to the UK on July which my BRC only valid until June 2021,
Probably yes. See
this Guardian article of an NHS worker being denied boarding in Kenya because her EUSS card is in process and electronic status was not accepted (the title says EUSS documents were not accepted, but from her account seems like the actual documents are in progress and she only showed her outcome letter, which as we know, is of no value) :
She had no problems travelling from the UK to Kenya but when she arrived at the airport in Nairobi on Friday hoping to board a Qatar Airways flight back home she was denied permission to board the plane by airline staff and immigration officials at the airport.
“I presented my letter from the Home Office confirming my EU settled status, which said I could share my immigration status online but they said that the advice given by the Home Office to prove my status online is not enough, I need a visa stamped on my passport,” she said.
Although she logged into her digital identity documents, which included a photo, and showed them to officials, they rejected this as proof of her status and said they would have to contact Home Office officials in London.
She showed a screenshot of the UK government website page titled: “View and prove your immigration status”, explaining how to access the online identity information but was still denied permission to board the 5.10pm flight she and her fiance were booked on to.
Regarding your next question:
will I get stopped at the immigration counter at the airport or so? and how do they "automatically check", I just don't want to get into trouble.
UK immigration is not the biggest problem. I believe if you produce the physical BRP/BRC that has your electronic status attached they
could be able to check in a UK-airport system that you have electronic status. But this is just a guess, this might still not be in place, I am just guessing that judging by how they promote the electronic status over physical cards they would have sorted this out already in domestic computers.
The biggest problem is any check that needs to happen outside of the UK. That is almost guaranteed to be an issue. In airports counters around the world, systems are designed as a "yes/no" process, where the passenger shows physical documents (passports, visas, residence cars) for a human to check against a list of requirements that shows on a screen. This system is not designed to take your word for it that you have an electronic status, nor are these computers equipped to surfing the web (have you seen what their user interface looks like? Usually dark-mode style black background terminals).
From media reports such as the one above, where someone was denied boarding in her own country, unsurprisingly it does not seem like airport systems around the word can check wether someone has electronic status.
My posts express what I believe are the facts, based on the best of my knowledge, about the topics discussed in this forum. They do not constitute immigration advice.
