{"id":3863,"date":"2021-05-13T11:43:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T11:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/13\/pedestrian-queues-as-spain-begins-testing-new-passport-e-gates-at-frontier\/"},"modified":"2021-05-13T11:43:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T11:43:16","slug":"pedestrian-queues-as-spain-begins-testing-new-passport-e-gates-at-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/13\/pedestrian-queues-as-spain-begins-testing-new-passport-e-gates-at-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian queues as Spain begins testing new passport e-gates at frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedestrian queues at the border this evening were the worst they\u2019ve been this summer as Spanish border authorities have begun testing the new passport e-gates during peak queueing times.<br \/>\nThe new electronic gates are part of Spain\u2019s commitment to reduce queues following the European Commission\u2019s recommendations last year. Pedestrians are requested to scan EU Compliant electronic passports or ID cards, their fingerprints, and use face recognition technology.<br \/>\nSources have told GBC the Spanish authorities have been testing the gates for the last few days, but today they\u2019re being tested at peak times for pedestrians, leading to tailbacks which have reached back to the former airport terminal.<br \/>\nPedestrians have been reporting queues of up to an hour to cross the frontier.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=okM-FRo5RQo\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedestrian queues at the border this evening were the worst they\u2019ve been this summer as Spanish border authorities have begun testing the new passport e-gates during peak queueing times. The new electronic gates are part of Spain\u2019s commitment to reduce queues following the European Commission\u2019s recommendations last year. Pedestrians are requested to scan EU Compliant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11763,11765,11530,11766,11758,11757,191,11760,11761,11762,652,11756,11759,11764],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european","tag-begins","tag-egates","tag-europe-continent","tag-frontier","tag-gibraltar-city-town-village","tag-gibraltar-country","tag-passport","tag-passport-industry","tag-pedestrian","tag-queues","tag-spain","tag-spain-country","tag-summer-literature-subject","tag-testing","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}