TomThomson (8/2/2016)
funbi (8/2/2016)
I once met a guy at passport control at Heathrow - he'd been kept aside because his fingerprints didn't scan. He told me this happened to him every time he flew international because he "didn't have fingerprints". He hadn't lost them in a fire or anything like that, he'd just never had them.The only biometric checks at Heathrow for EEA or Swiss nationals or for registered travellers from other countries that use facial biometrics are facial checks. So I guess that was someone from somewhere different who had a fingerprint validated visa.
Edit: A UK fingerprint-validated visa must be a real pain for someone like that guy. We ought to have an alternative for such people.
When I came through passport control at Heathrow on my South African passport/UK indefinite leave to remain visa I had to scan my fingerprint at the desk. I remember submitting it as part of my biometrics for the UK visa application. Definitely not just facial checks unless that has changed in the last 1.5 years.