Roads to enable post-Brexit fingerprint checks for travellers at Dover have not even been built yet, with less than a month to go before the rollout.

The new biometric checks will also take up to six times longer than the current system – and kiosks to scan fingerprints may not be operational when it launches for the first cohort of vehicles leaving the port on Sunday due to an IT glitch.

It is the latest farce to hit the delayed launch of Entry / Exit System (EES) biometric checks for non-EU citizens heading to Europe’s Schengen area, the first phase of which begins at 5pm on 12 October. New Feature

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In Dover, they will apply to coach and freight travellers only, but passengers in cars will undergo the same checks from 1 November.

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