Electronic Travel Authorisations: Northern Ireland

(asked on 12th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 57213 on Electronic Travel Authorisations: Northern Ireland, how many and what proportion of the Electronic Travel Authorisations issued up until the end of 2024 were issued to travellers entering Northern Ireland from the Irish Republic.


Answered by
Seema Malhotra Portrait
Seema Malhotra
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
This question was answered on 17th June 2025

Journeys from Ireland to the UK are within the Common Travel Area (CTA). As part of the CTA arrangements, the UK does not operate routine immigration controls of individuals arriving in the UK by air or sea from within the CTA, and no immigration checks are undertaken at the land border with Ireland.

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