Though Vaccinated Britons will not be required to self isolate, Immigration staffs are not happy and expect Chaos and long Ques at airports due to additional work load.
Border staff say massive airport queues will be the Government's fault for insisting on checking four different documents - on top of staff shortages due to self isolation.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has warned holidaymakers to expect border chaos as he announced that millions of fully vaccinated Britons will not have to self-isolate after trips abroad to amber list countries from July 19.
Sources say the additional verifications could initially result in queues at borders of up to six hours - with the Border Force 'nowhere near ready' to deal with such an influx.
Now, a union representing border staff has insisted that 'it's a political decision to check 100 per cent of Covid arrivals and that largely is the problem here' in the latest slanging match between policy makers and airport workers.
Immigration Services Union spokeswoman Lucy Moreton told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that peak queues are currently up to two hours as the process take three to four times longer to check Covid documentation.
She warned of more staffing shortages before self-isolation rules are changed for double-jabbed coronavirus contacts.
"There still will be queues associated with EU exit, with staff perhaps not being as available particularly if self-isolation figures surge in the way people are suggesting they might do before August 19', she said.
"But whilst we retain the requirement to check four pieces of documentation for every arriving passenger - the e-gate cannot check the pre-departure test certificate because they're not uniform, and they can't at the moment check any vaccination status, if that becomes relevant.
So whilst that remains the political imperative these queues are going to happen and Sources say that Border Force is 'nowhere near ready' to cope with the changes.
'You could easily be looking at queues of six hours to start with,' the source said, adding: 'The Border Force is nowhere near ready. What no-one knows is how much extra traffic there will be as a result of the change.'
Mr Shapps also faces a backlash over mandatory PCR tests for children as young as five when they return from holidays. All adult travellers will still have to take two tests - one pre-return within three days of travel to England and another post-arrival by day two. Children aged 11 to 17 will also need to take the pre-return and post-arrival tests.
'Many parents would feel uneasy about normalising testing for children as young as this. It sends a very negative message to our children that they are disease vectors. Any holiday with a family is expensive enough as it is. I would not put a five or eight-year-old through this to go away'.
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