Heathrow immigration timelines

Jijo883

Hello all,

I'll be travelling to LHR soon. I was trying to get a measure of how long it took you to get through immigration at T3 and what was your travel date. 

Thanks in advance. 

Alan_Bowen

I am afraid any answers you get may bear no relation to your arrival. The good news is that the peak summer season has passed, if you are not travelling with children and are eligible to use the e-gates, your time may be short, if you cannot and arrive at the same time as 6 other long haul flights, the delays may be substantial.

There appears to be a severe shortage of Border Force staff at present, have a look on the Heathrow website and see what arrivals there are at T3 around your arrival time which should give you a reasonable idea. If your flight is 2 hours after the last arrival, 20 minutes should do it, if it is the last of 6 then it may well be hours. Of course, all of this assumes that every flight arrives at the time intended, if there are delays, to your plane or others, then the basic rules won't apply!