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The ones at Paris last year on Eurostar were so slow they were takeing at least 45, but with retries average of about 60 seconds to process someone. I think there were 5. There was only 1 train an hour leaving, but the trains had 900 seats. You can see the problem. With airports, I used to come in to Heathrow 50 times a year. There was a great system called Iris, you literally walked up and walked through, barely nee…
Last time I used them was at Gare du Nord, most of the people on our train had to go see the one guy to manually review the passport.
One thing that would massively cut passport queues and save money would be for the UK to join Schengen.