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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 10/01/2026

New blog post: Why my NFC passport didn't work at Heathrow's eGates shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/01/why-my-nfc… I travel a fair bit. My passport is usually quickly scanned and I can enter or leave a country without delay. But every time I use the eGates …

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Why my NFC passport didn't work at Heathrow's eGates

I travel a fair bit. My passport is usually quickly scanned and I can enter or leave a country without delay. But every time I use the eGates at Heathrow Airport to get back in to the UK, my passport is rejected and I'm told to seek assistance from Border Force. Today, I think I discovered why! The border guards are usually polite and tell me there's nothing wrong with my passport (not that they …

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Lisa Riemers @lisariemers.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This is a very Edent problem to have 😁 good point though

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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Makes perfect sense. We have this issue with building access cards. As you conjecture, older readers can’t disambiguate or enumerate multiple replies. Upshot “loudest/quickest” wins. A challenge of Heathrow being an early adopter perhaps?

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

As it happens, I suffered the same problem for a while, and when I expressed my frustration to the border official he told me that my details were similar to someone that *was* on a watch list.

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