The UK Home Office has officially confirmed that it will lift the EU ID card ban for French residents, meaning French school groups will have less roadblocks entering the country.
The move was rumoured in November, but sector stakeholders decried the lack of clarity on the situation at the time and lobbied for a clear start date.
The implementation of the rule was of “paramount importance”, and the goodwill it would create would be “incalculable”, English UK chief Jodie Gray said at the time.
“We are making changes to allow children aged 18 and under, studying at a school in France, to visit the UK on an organised educational trip without the usual passport or visit visa requirements,” the Home Office wrote in December.
