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British girl, 15, stranded in Rome for six weeks due to new passport rules (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Every time this stupid story hits the press . . the answer is the same: Dublin, Dublin, DUBLIN. Take your 2nd passport, fly to Dublin, take the train to Belfast, cross on the ferry, train home.

This is a moronic policy by the UK Home Office and should be fixed . .but there is such a simple - and LEGAL - way around it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    But also it's kind of a non-issue. You should have a British passport if you are a Brit travelling abroad.

    Because that way you go through the short queue in immigration at both ends.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I am from the UK, my wife from Germany. My daughter was born in Germany and has dual-citizenship automatically via me as her father.

    She was born before Brexit and only has a German passport as it was always possible to travel via free-movement and then after Brexit without issue by using the digital visa to the UK.

    The new rules now apply to her, meaning we had to get a million things exensively translated, stamped, signed and sent off to the UK and apply for an official passport in order to not get slapped with a big fine, or worse, stranded each time she travels.

    For us, it was not a non-issue and is unnecessary red-tape, and I have a feeling it is only done to artificially keep some migration figures down.

    Whatever. Done now. /rant

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago*

    For us, it was not a non-issue and is unnecessary red-tape, and I have a feeling it is only done to artificially keep some migration figures down.

    Whatever. Done now. /rant

    I've no disagreement with any of this. And I don't have any intention of discrediting the sentiment that the UK government implemented this too brashly and without sufficient communication (and perhaps especially a specific grace period).

    However surely the writing has been on the walls for 10 years now? Why did she not get a UK passport before then? Was the blue passport so offensive? I could actually sympathise there... I already had a blue passport and I'm clinging to my red one until it expires.

    Wish I had green, purple, or black. Gotta collect them all.

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