Trying to report spouce returned back to Philippines after 2 weeks

[somebody]

I presumed that when a UK issued machine readable passport/visas get scanned that your status is checked. Or does it just record the fact that you entered?

Dont know for sure but from my last couple of flights they just semed to be checking the scanned data matched the printed page.

I remeber reading they recorded people entering but only kept the data for so long. As there was a big ho ha in the papers regarding it a few months back if i recall correctly.

To be honest recording the 10's of millions of flights which enter and depart from the UK would probably mean visas would reach even greater amounts.