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Gran Alacant Forum => General Discussions => Topic started by: kevinb on October 12, 2020, 18:17.
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Yesterday in GA filled in the UK Government Locator Form as required, it generates a . PDF form with a scannable character that's read at your returning UK airport, we returned to Stansted and there was no one to scan it. The SPTH form we completed when we flew in to Alicante airport was scanned, a couple of guys with hand scanners did the task. Draw your own conclusions.
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You have to put your passport details on the form. A quick check against the passports scanned on the UK data base will immediately identify any passports without matching locator forms so the appropriate action can be taken. A lot quicker and cheaper than having someone standing there checking them.
Only once in the last three trips have I been asked to show my locator form at BHX when I landed.
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Blue and White, yes that does make sense.
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I had same in July when I cam back no one at Stansted to look at it . The whole form both the Spanish one and the Uk one were a waste of time . Basically no one going to Spain was ever going to answer yes to the health questions were they ?
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Came back into Manchester from Rome 4 weeks ago, a guy at immigration visually checked my mobile display to see the QR code which could have been a photo from the table of the last restaurant I visited.
I may be wrong but I seriously doubt there is the capacity in this government to be able to check the passport database against locator form input.
Will be returning on Eurotunnel soonish, and you're a captive audience there so will see what happens.
Dave
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Our online (on I-Phone) form not checked back on arrival and now on my last day of enforced quarantine. No calls to check on our whereabouts over the last 13 days and as I said no one checking on arrival when coming back into BHX.
Its my understanding there is no direct link between passport control and the locator system. Its all good will.
Not wanting to cheat personally - but from what I saw if no-one had filled the forms in on my return flight no one would have been any wiser
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nice to know what happens if you don't have an iphone like me. I came back in july to m/cr with easyjet, the steward gave me a form to complete which i handed in at passport control, no problem.
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I was trying to find where there is a paper form available to download and fill in rather then fiddle around on the i-Phone.
If anyone has a link I'd be greatfull
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Don't think there is any way of downloading a form and filling it in, has to be done online, you can then print it out. I found our government form a bit ambiguous in places though it accepted the dates I put in.
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Just a query.
We've booked with Ryanair to return to UK for 12 days over the Christmas holiday to stay with our daughter.
We booked because the prices were cheapest ever for us, €115 total for 2 returns, an amount we can write off
if Ryanair behave as normal.
My query is this -
Just what are the quarantine rules for a 12 day stay?
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If you travel to the UK you have to quarantine for 14 days before you can leave your accommodation, we came back from Spain on Monday so are currently house bound for two weeks.
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Just a query.
We've booked with Ryanair to return to UK for 12 days over the Christmas holiday to stay with our daughter.
We booked because the prices were cheapest ever for us, €115 total for 2 returns, an amount we can write off
if Ryanair behave as normal.
My query is this -
Just what are the quarantine rules for a 12 day stay?
In addition to you having to quarantine your daughter and everyone at their home would also have to quarantine from my understanding of the rules.....friends who have their daughter visiting from Canada have had to do this.
Regards all
John
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To clarify, does this mean we are not allowed a 12 day stay in the UK?
So, Ryanair should not have allowed the booking?
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Yes you are allowed a 12 day stay in the UK but unfortunately the current rules are that you will have to quarantine and not go out anywhere) for the whole time you are there from the address you nominate.
I need to check but it ma also be the case that your daughter cant go out for the 12 days your are there also and may have to continue to isolate for a further two days after you have gone.
Sorry - its a pain in the proverbials but they are the rules "led by science" :o
Its a legitimate flight route so dont expect Ryanaor to help on cancellation
To clarify, does this mean we are not allowed a 12 day stay in the UK?
So, Ryanair should not have allowed the booking?
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Under the current rules people from different households are not allowed to mix indoors if the area is in tier two or three. You might have to pitch a tent up in the garden. Unless your surname is (C) Cummins and then you do as you please. It could all have changed by the time you travel. Hoping for the best.
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Just looked at the government website at the quarantine rules and it says you must travel straight to your quarantine address and stay there for 14 days, would the airport pick up on it if you turned up for a home bound flight two days early ? Who knows ?
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Been through this a couple of weeks ago current rules are if you are staying in the uk after arriving for 14 days or more you must isolate for 14 days. If you are staying less than 14 days then you must isolate for the entire time . Your isolation period starts from when you step on Uk soil so if you arrive at 2355 that is still day 1 even though you have only isolated for 5 mins it’s a day done. It says nothing about time of arrival just that the day you arrive is day one and you must travel directly to isolation place.
Interestingly and I checked with helpline anyone in the house where you are isolating does not have to isolate unless they show symptoms and can go out and visit others etc as per normal rules etc. But no one else can visit while you are isolation.
Confused so was I
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Not wanting to make it worse than it is - but this is from the gov.uk site
Example 1
You leave a non-exempt country on Monday morning and arrive in England on Monday afternoon. You must self-isolate: on the day that you arrive back for 14 full days AFTER that
Example 2
You leave a non-exempt country on Monday afternoon and arrive back in England on Tuesday morning. You must self-isolate on arrival and for 14 full days, including the Tuesday.
I have to say I believed the rules were as you said Spurs. So legged it out on after 14 days in the UK (landing at 18:00 fro ALC) but looks like I should have stayed in one more day
"led by the Science" :o
Been through this a couple of weeks ago current rules are if you are staying in the uk after arriving for 14 days or more you must isolate for 14 days. If you are staying less than 14 days then you must isolate for the entire time . Your isolation period starts from when you step on Uk soil so if you arrive at 2355 that is still day 1 even though you have only isolated for 5 mins it’s a day done. It says nothing about time of arrival just that the day you arrive is day one and you must travel directly to isolation place.
Interestingly and I checked with helpline anyone in the house where you are isolating does not have to isolate unless they show symptoms and can go out and visit others etc as per normal rules etc. But no one else can visit while you are isolation.
Confused so was I
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I think there's been a quiet tweak to the rules as I was under the impression (as Spurs) that it was 14 days including the day you arrive. Now it's 14 days and the day you arrive.
Also I'm now in quarantine for the third time and my other half is still free to go out as long as she doesn't show any symptoms.
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To clarify, does this mean we are not allowed a 12 day stay in the UK?
So, Ryanair should not have allowed the booking?
To clarify , you can visit for as little or long as you wish, the rule is that if your visit is less than 14 days, you must travel directly to the place you will be quarantining and follow the quarantine rules once there for the duration of your stay. But I wouldn’t bet on current rules still being current by then anyway.
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Many thanks for all your replies. As you say, things may well change in the interim.
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It’s obviously changed since I came back then as I spoke to helpline then and they confirmed it was 14 days including the day I arrived . But I guess it moved on, the most important thing is there have been so many rules and changes I doubt if anyone actually understands what we should do either in normal at hone situations or travelling etc. Even Boris got it wrong the other day but apparently in April Dominic Cummings got it right maybe we should all ask him !!!!