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Passport control
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 7:12pm
Something very strange. In Spain, as residents, we have to show our passports in every hotel. Recently travelled to Norway via Amsterdam and no passports were asked for.
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 12:41am
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Rocchett wrote on Thu Feb 20, 2025 7:12pm:
Something very strange. In Spain, as residents, we have to show our passports in every hotel. Recently travelled to Norway via Amsterdam and no passports were asked for.
As residents, did you show them your TIEs? We've never been asked for passports when staying in Spanish hotels and just hand over our TIEs as do Spanish citizens with their DNI cards.
Mags44 wrote on Fri Feb 21, 2025 12:41am:
As residents, did you show them your TIEs? We've never been asked for passports when staying in Spanish hotels and just hand over our TIEs as do Spanish citizens with their DNI cards.
No TIEs or passports asked for
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 2:30pm
Rocchett wrote on Fri Feb 21, 2025 7:37am:
No TIEs or passports asked for
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I'm not sure which element of this you are questioning - Spain's policies, expected EU policies, or just generally?
The requirement to provide a passport or other form of ID is not an EU requirement, it is down to each country's own security policies - and this applies worldwide. Norway is not in the EU (although it is in the Schengen area), but this is irrelevant.
Spain has this policy (as a resident you use your DNI or TIE) , as does, to my knowledge, France and many other countries - France used to require hotel managers to fax copies of passports or ID cards for every single guest every night to a central bureau (those who have seen the original film of 'The Day of the Jackal' or read the book, may recall that this was how the Jackal was traced across France).
The UK doesn't require passports or other forms of ID and didn't do when we were in the EU either.
The Spanish policy may go back to Franco's desire for control over the population..?
Hope this helps!
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 3:34pm
RichT wrote on Sun Feb 23, 2025 3:06pm:
I'm not sure which element of this you are questioning - Spain's policies, expected EU policies, or just generally?
The requirement to provide a passport or other form of ID is not an EU requirement, it is down to each country's own security policies - and this applies worldwide. Norway is not in the EU (although it is in the Schengen area), but this is irrelevant. ...
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Spain has this policy (as a resident you use your DNI or TIE) , as does, to my knowledge, France and many other countries - France used to require hotel managers to fax copies of passports or ID cards for every single guest every night to a central bureau (those who have seen the original film of 'The Day of the Jackal' or read the book, may recall that this was how the Jackal was traced across France).
The UK doesn't require passports or other forms of ID and didn't do when we were in the EU either.
The Spanish policy may go back to Franco's desire for control over the population..?
Hope this helps!
I have been very surprised by the Spanish requirement to provide passport or NIE details, etc. I have had to provide details to buy a train ticket, entrance to a botanical gardens, and even to have deliveries from Leroy Merlin.
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 6:22pm
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RichT wrote on Sun Feb 23, 2025 3:06pm:
I'm not sure which element of this you are questioning - Spain's policies, expected EU policies, or just generally?
The requirement to provide a passport or other form of ID is not an EU requirement, it is down to each country's own security policies - and this applies worldwide. Norway is not in the EU (although it is in the Schengen area), but this is irrelevant. ...
Read more...
...
Spain has this policy (as a resident you use your DNI or TIE) , as does, to my knowledge, France and many other countries - France used to require hotel managers to fax copies of passports or ID cards for every single guest every night to a central bureau (those who have seen the original film of 'The Day of the Jackal' or read the book, may recall that this was how the Jackal was traced across France).
The UK doesn't require passports or other forms of ID and didn't do when we were in the EU either.
The Spanish policy may go back to Franco's desire for control over the population..?
Hope this helps!
Hence the total lack of knowledge as to who is in the UK at any one time????
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2025 12:35pm
We found exactly the same when travelling from Spain to Italy. We are residents in Spain but also hold British passports but neither were required.
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