You do not go through immigration in Nice as Nice to Paris will be a domestic flight. You will go through it Paris. Less than 2 hours may be tight, especially if you incoming flight is late, but when we were at CDG, the staff there yells out departing flights and let's those on those flights go to the front of the line.

Thanks for the comments. Whatever happens we’ll deal with it.

My nephew, spouse and son flew into Schiphol a few days back and said it took verrrry long to go through immigration. They wanted to see proof of exit from the Schengen area (they were flying out of Copenhagen), and other stuff, nephew said it took for ever! He was wondering why it took so long, didn’t realize it could have been EES!

This is concerning. Will be routing through Schiphol via Nice next month back to US.

I imagine, all of data will be stored somewhere ,so in the future we will only go through scanners.
And, I hope airports will have dozens of scanners to reduce waiting time. 🤞
For me, entering and exiting Madrid took about the same time this month as it did a year ago .

I'm at the tiny airport in Ljubljana and I just went through EES to exit, as I'm flying to London. There were 2 agents working and both booths had only 1 passenger being processed. It didn't take 5 minutes. But I'm sure this is very much the exception and not the rule, as it took longer in Malta last month.

Flew into Bari, Italy from LHR 10 days ago. It's a small airport so didn't expect long queues. Wrong! Our flight was half full and the only one arriving at that time , even so it still took an hour of quing to get to the scanners. After 4 /5 futile attempts to scan passports a border control officer took pity and also failed . I was directed to a manned booth where the guy managed to take my photo but failed to scan fingerprints. 1.5 hours later we finally entered Italy but still not registered. My wife's experience was similar as were 90% of passenger on our flight.

We returned yesterday. Tried to register again at the auto machines . It took 5 attempts, though we had achieved successful registration only to be told by the machine to go to a manned booth!*?**

We returned from a very nice break in Puglia still wondering whether or not we were successful registering for the new system. The final straw was that my passport is due for renewal in a few moths so I shall have to endure the agony of EU bureaucracy yet again. I think our next trip may be to somewhere more welcoming to foreign travellers , perhaps China or North Korea...

As one would expect the process varies at different airports for many reasons: number of passengers, number of scanners, the staff support, possible glitches..etc.
Although I have “ registered “ in Madrid this month, I am already dreading landing ar busy Berlin airport in July🙀
What can one do?

So the exit at MXP wasn’t perfectly smooth in that the machine didn’t recognize my passport, so I had to go to the yellow line and have it looked at by a human. The good news was that I got a passport stamp as a result, and at 6:15, this took all of three minutes. The bad news is I could see it taking a lot longer when the airport is busier.

Frankfurt, today, leaving the EU on a LJU-FRA-YHZ connection.

We were directed to register again on the kiosks. These machines are much easier to use than the ones we tried in MAD in February. The on-screen prompts are very clear, and the whole process took at best one minute.

But then we joined the line for the border guards. There was a longish queue for non-eu passport holders, which took us about 35 minutes to transit. There were four agents open, and they were photographing and fingerprinting some travellers, presumably those who had been unable to pre-register, but for us, they simply scanned the passport and stamped it.. The processing time per person is delayed by what seems to be a slow response on their computer systems.

One day this may be smoother. It makes you long for the days when everything was steam-driven. :) (Says the cranky old man who shouts at clouds.)

Flying out of Madrid (to London) today. I was nervous about delays so I arrived at the airport wayyyy early. I went to the “registration” kiosks but I am already registered and it told me to go to the e-gates. This is where things are not very clear; assuming you already registered you just go to the gates? I guess so, and I could have avoided those kiosks but I did not want to mess up. It did not take very long, the lines moved quickly.

I got stuck in Vienna last month due to a delayed flight and had to go through immigration there. The internet was not working and the immigration guy was going through my passport and manually adding days on a calculator. I have a new passport and he asked for my old one so he could check an entry in November. I did not have that or my boarding pass from November which he also asked for. Obviously they are getting instructions to be vigilant.

In Madrid, e-gates, zero questions.

my takeaways: be ready to show your return flight out of Schengen and keep boarding pass stubs if you travel a lot. Crossing land borders several times in the last couple of months, I was asked nothing, but you have to get out of the car to get your photo taken, every single time.

"I went to the “registration” kiosks but I am already registered and it told me to go to the e-gates." Interesting. Based on my own experience in #47 above, I am still not sure whether or not I successfully register. One would think that there was some way of checking online but, if there is one, I cant find it!
Thinking about planning another trip to anywhere other than the EU. Pity the poor motorists queuing for 5 hours at Dover in a heatwave before the French eventually relented and waived the EES requirements. Euro bureaucracy at its best..

I arrived in Paris at CDG two days ago. There was about a 20 minute wait in line for the kiosks. It seems some were able to scan their passport and proceed but about 50% were unsuccessful. The young worker helping those who were having trouble wasn't able to get the scanner to work either even though he made a valiant effort. I was one of the unfortunate and he finally rerouted me to a manned cubicle where the agent barely glanced at my passport and waived me through, no picture and no fingerprints.

Does anyone have an answer?
I went through the process in Madrid this month, when I land inBerlin in July where do I line up ?

I think you'll have to find out when you get there. When I was in Rome they were separating the registered people from unregistered, but in Slovenia they were not. I'm sure there will be people to assist.

Thx. I believe you are right..