In article , Roland
Perry writes
Except that the Home Office Immigration department has a list of
people who are in the country legally, so if you can reliably
establish someone's name, you can check it against that list.
I don't recall any scanning of EU passports at Waterloo last time I
came that way, and I don't think either Paris or Brussels did so
either. And I'm sure there was no scanning last time I used a ferry.
Very interesting, but in what way is that relevant to Americans being
legally entitled to live in the UK?

Nothing. The assertion was "if you can reliably establish someone's
name, you can check it against that list" "of people who are in the
country legally".

Even if IND know the name of every UK citizen (which I doubt), there are
still people legally in the country that they don't know about. And
possession of an EU passport doesn't show that they're here legally
either, even if you know who they are.

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In message , at 08:00:49 on Thu, 26
Aug 2004, Clive D. W. Feather remarked:
The assertion was "if you can reliably establish someone's name, you
can check it against that list" "of people who are in the country
legally".

This is in the context of Robin's American girlfriend. So I repeat my
claim that if you are an American in the UK, the Home Office has a list
of those who are in the country legally (a combination of landing cards
for tourists and immigration papers for residents).
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