I have a query please and you may or may not be able to help . My partner and i travel frequently to France for a day trip . We both got prison sentence's  of 36 months in Jan 2007 and was released  Oct 2007 by the time remand was taken in to consideration.

I came out of prison to a whole new life and and i changed my life and my name and i have legal name change papers and my passport and driving licence is all in my new name which it has been for since 2008 .  Now im beginning to worry as i am hearing fingerprints are going to be registered. Dont mind that as if its got to be its got to be . But my concern is they fingerprints are in my old name , so so advice on these would be great if possible. I have served my time, learnt my lesson and am a totally different person and a more community based hardworking person and now approaching retirement and NEVER have been in trouble with the police again .

Kindest regards and thanking you in advance or for pointing me in the right direction

EES is there to prevent immigration fraud. They will take your fingerprints and photo to make sure that nobody else uses your indentity to enter and that you don't use anybody else's. Your prints and photo will probably be re-taken every few years to keep them updated. They don't compare that biometric information with anything else. If it's your photo on the passport, that's all they're bothered about. At no stage is EES linked to the UK's criminal record system, and as your convictions were more than fifteen years ago, you won't even have to disclose them for ETIAS, if it ever starts, as they're more than fifteen years ago (unless they were for terrorist offences).

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If you are to punish a man retributively you must injure him. If you are to reform him you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries. (George Bernard Shaw)

Thank you AB2014 for the kind reply . And no they certainly weren't for terrorist offences lol