ID card rollout begins

[Ian Batten]

On 29 Sep 08, at 1201, ken wrote:
>
> Maybe in law but not always  in practice. I know a Zimbabwean
> who lives and works in UK and is married to a British citizen,
> and who has a UK passport, who was denied entry to France a
> couple of years ago. That took some months to sort out and
> required getting a one-off visa for France.

So they arrived at the French border, presented a UK passport, and  
were refused entry?  How did the French border police know that they  
were Zimbabwean (presumably dual nationality)?

ian