 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Gämsbock wrote: |
| @midgetbiker, note that @telford_mike tried the certificate conversion via the TAC and it did not work but also note the BAG link above by which you don’t need it (unless visiting a landslide restaurant is critical). |
This could be interesting w.r.t. the PSB when ~100 SHs are gathering in Geneva airport to wait for the lardy bus.  It sounds like we might not be welcome in the Jazz Cafe.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@sugarmoma666, I’m pretty sure they’ll be setup for takeaway and the gathering of snowheads will just move to immediately outside the Jazz Cafe. Or the terrace.
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Thx, airports not being on the list is a comfort. You may well be right on the entry check being more akin to the border requirement than the pub requirement.
I've emailed GVA for a hopefully definitive answer.
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I read that too. I'm going to give it a try tomorrow.
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@Gämsbock, Easyjet seem to be allowing online checkin for those with no hold luggage, but the PLF/vaccination checks for these people are all done when actually boarding the place, rather than at luggage drop off. Those dropping off luggage get a sticker (like primary school...) which shows you've had your paperwork checked when doing this, so you don't need doing again when boarding.
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@snowhound, I did fly Easyjet over the summer and outbound we weren‘t allowed to check-in online but inbound we were, though we didn‘t as we had luggage and I only realised late anyway. If they were checking some passengers at the gate on either flight I didn‘t notice, though I probably wouldn‘t unless there was a big queue/hold-up.
@Alastair Pink, that looks positive!
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The Mrs and daughters just got back from Menorca last week. Were allowed online check in both ways and the documentation checked in the queue before baggage drop off at Gatwick (automated) and at the drop off desk on return.
Mind you, both checks were cursory at best...more a quick glimpse to see if they actually had the necessary forms rather than what they actually entered on them. And no check of the PLF pre-booked test numbers at all...but that's another thread!
All in all, quite a lot of wasted time and money, adding little more than yet more covid contagion theatre.
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Just tried reading my NHS QR code with the Swiss Covid checker app. Nothing has changed - it still fails with an 'invalid signature' message.
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@telford_mike, maybe you have to go the intermediate step of getting the UK certificate accepted on the EU digital pass app, then using that?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@Alastair Pink, Good thought. Imported my cert into TAC and checked it with the Swiss checker. Exactly the same result. Looks like the IT changes haven’t quite happened.
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@telford_mike, has the app updated? It may be that it needs to be updated before the NHS QR code is accepted.
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You know it makes sense.
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It seems that it goes live on Monday, and that you will need to redownload your codes after it goes live.
Thanks to @GeorgeVII who posted this in a new thread.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@pieman666, Certainly deserves its own thread 
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Poster: A snowHead
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| midgetbiker wrote: |
Thx, airports not being on the list is a comfort. You may well be right on the entry check being more akin to the border requirement than the pub requirement.
I've emailed GVA for a hopefully definitive answer. |
GVA never replied to the enquiry via their webform 
On the day: No one checked anything until boarding at the gate (and then it was the UK entry requirements). Swiss Tours never asked for TAC, no one asked for anything as we entered CH at the border, as we entered GVA at the door, as we cleared security, or when we checked into either of the lounges we used. Never used a food outlet so can't speak to that.
Anyway, shouldn't we be all set on Monday, once we (UK) join the EU Covid Cert?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| snowhound wrote: |
| @Gämsbock, Easyjet seem to be allowing online checkin for those with no hold luggage, but the PLF/vaccination checks for these people are all done when actually boarding the place, rather than at luggage drop off. Those dropping off luggage get a sticker (like primary school...) which shows you've had your paperwork checked when doing this, so you don't need doing again when boarding. |
Our experience too - online checkin and straight to the gate at both MCR and GVA as we never have luggage with us. Docs checked at the gate. Flew with EJ from Mallorca where we had bikes and they checked docs at check in - then checked them again at the gate!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| andy from embsay wrote: |
| snowhound wrote: |
| @Gämsbock, Easyjet seem to be allowing online checkin for those with no hold luggage, but the PLF/vaccination checks for these people are all done when actually boarding the place, rather than at luggage drop off. Those dropping off luggage get a sticker (like primary school...) which shows you've had your paperwork checked when doing this, so you don't need doing again when boarding. |
Our experience too - online checkin and straight to the gate at both MCR and GVA as we never have luggage with us. Docs checked at the gate. Flew with EJ from Mallorca where we had bikes and they checked docs at check in - then checked them again at the gate! |
EJ from GVA yesterday was online check in.
Ryanair from AGP in early Aug was check in at desk only, so they could check docs (though at least they weren't checked again at gate).
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Re: Swiss form and getting checked. From my experience its self policing to some extent, they trust you to do it. If you don’t do it and they catch you then its a chf fine.
Same with transfer into France. Its Schengen, freedom of movement, they're not stopping cars for passports- more like electrical goods. But if they do stop you and you haven’t done it then they can ruin your day.
Do it, don’t do it. Its less paperwork than needed to book a sodding cinema ticket in the UK online.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Nadenoodlee wrote: |
Re: Swiss form and getting checked. From my experience its self policing to some extent, they trust you to do it. If you don’t do it and they catch you then its a chf fine.
Same with transfer into France. Its Schengen, freedom of movement, they're not stopping cars for passports- more like electrical goods. But if they do stop you and you haven’t done it then they can ruin your day.
Do it, don’t do it. Its less paperwork than needed to book a sodding cinema ticket in the UK online. |
Agreed, the French attestation and CH PLF are 1 min jobs. The UK PLF on the other hand is a pita.
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Swiss App worked for me just now, using NHS certificate as PDF
Now showing QR code and "Valid in combination with an ID document"
Didnt need the EU version.
Now to see if my single vaxxed 16 year olds will be accepted!
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| martinperry wrote: |
Swiss App worked for me just now, using NHS certificate as PDF
Now showing QR code and "Valid in combination with an ID document"
Didnt need the EU version.
Now to see if my single vaxxed 16 year olds will be accepted! |
You don’t need to import it into the Swiss (or French) app either - the QR code is the same and comes up as valid when scanned by the French or Swiss validation apps.
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@andy from embsay, so all you need now is the valid NHS QR (in Apple wallet, email pdf , paper version or logging into the NHS app)
And the Swiss QR reader used by the merchant to check it reads it ok?
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Yep @ster - you can download both the French Tous Anti Covid Verif and the Swiss Covid Check apps from the app store (iOS, don’t know about Android) and both verify an NHS cert as valid, so you can check - but it works fine for my cert in the iOS wallet.
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@andy from embsay, @ster, android have both of those apps for download as well.
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I replaced my (non valid) QR code in the Swiss app with a new one. Now shows as valid until 27/3/22, but only "in combination with an identity document".
Won't be a problem in the Airport, as only in transit, and will have passport with me, but I don't normally carry my passport around with me on holiday.
Would a UK driving licence be acceptable?
The TAC and green pass apps accepted the code without problems.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@andy from embsay, top stuff.
I guess the only (v minor) thing to be aware by using the downloaded NHS QR directly is its 30 day validity period. Maybe a pain if it ran out an you couldn’t log onto the NHS App to renew.
Whereas its be commented on earlier that if you run it through the Swiss covid passport app it gives you (I think) a validity period of a year from 2nd vaccination.
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@ster, good point - having learned from experience I shall be renewing my NHS certs if I ever need to send off a potentially positive PCR test, given that they disappear altogether for 10/12 days if it’s positive. And will certainly download them before any trip abroad, as I think you’ll need the NHS one to board a flight if the PLF won’t recognise your vax status (which it seems to regularly - about half our recent Mallorca lads’ trip couldn’t get it to work so had to show a certificate).
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You know it makes sense.
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@andy from embsay, indeed, for that issue too which I have just experienced. I downloaded my cert just before doing a PCR which I thought would confirm a positive LFT and so it proved, and my cert is now gone when logging on.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Would a UK driving licence be acceptable?
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@brianatab, yes, assuming it is a photocard drivers license.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Alastair Pink, there’s a bit more too it than just „refusing to check certificates“ - the owners of that restaurant are anti-vax COVID skeptics who have published their views on boards outside their restaurant and openly stated they that they will not comply with the rules for months now. They had already been ordered to close because of repeated COVID violations but had continued to open anyway.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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The UK FCO travel advice page for Switzerland has now been updated to confirm that as of 1st November the UK NHS Covid Pass will be accepted for domestic purposes (e.g. entering restaurants etc) in Switzerland.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/switzerland/coronavirus see the sub heading 'Covid-19 restrictions'
You will need to refresh the pass or print a new one if generated before 1st November for it to be accepted.
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| CathS wrote: |
The UK FCO travel advice page for Switzerland has now been updated to confirm that as of 1st November the UK NHS Covid Pass will be accepted for domestic purposes (e.g. entering restaurants etc) in Switzerland.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/switzerland/coronavirus see the sub heading 'Covid-19 restrictions'
You will need to refresh the pass or print a new one if generated before 1st November for it to be accepted. |
And yes, it works
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@colinstone, your link is to the same page that I linked to in my original comment about the situation in Zermatt. 
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@Alastair Pink, they‘ve updated the story since yesterday to give a bit more background. To be honest, I see the story more as „how long did it take to shut them down“ rather than that „they have (finally) shut them down“!
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@Gämsbock, yes, it does seem that the Police allowed them to flout the regulations for quite some time before arresting them.
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U.K. Embassy in Switzerland just posted on Facebook and confirmed that all U.K. NHS passes now accepted in Switzerland (digital & paper), just need to be refreshed if updated before 1st November
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| Whitters wrote: |
| U.K. Embassy in Switzerland just posted on Facebook and confirmed that all U.K. NHS passes now accepted in Switzerland (digital & paper), just need to be refreshed if updated before 1st November |
Do you know if that applies to single vaccinated 16 year olds?
They can get a UK pass, but when transposed into the Swiss app, it shows as invalid??
Thanks
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