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This is becoming a big issue for me where UK and AU companies are geoblocking their sites to only allow logins from their home country. For example I have a lot of flybuys points that I wanted to send to Velocity, but flybuys won’t let you login unless in Australia. I complained and they replied...

That seems pretty good to me. It was about $16/SC when I priced up just now.

If you currently have an ETA that’s probably ok, but you can no longer truthfully obtain one if you don’t.

I would imagine if someone were to successfully obtain an ETA despite being British, the airline would be none the wiser.

And with that they are beginning to relax the rules a little, telling airlines they can accept “at their discretion” an expired British passport (issued 1989 or newer) https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/uk-passport-rules-expired-dual-citizenship-b2924125.html

And to apply for a passport you need to provide a lot of evidence that you’re a citizen, which they don’t seem to already have or know.

Finally making news in the UK, but news here is focusing on British people living in the EU, for whom it should at least be a bit easier to obtain passports if needed. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/13/dual-nationals-denied-entry-to-uk-british-passport-border-control

This has sadly been going on for years and no crackdowns ever seem to solve it. Until there’s frequent convenient public transport I don’t see it changing. Make it simple and easy to find and use legitimate transport and these people no longer have a viable market. Better signage and educating...

This just isn’t true. The UK’s had simple instant payments between bank accounts for much longer than Australia has. Australia’s faster payments is a mess with needing a payID or to check if it’s Osko supported or some other complication or incompatibility. And even then it’s not guaranteed...

Meanwhile thinking back to my first trip around Europe many years ago on a Contiki tour, we went to restaurants as groups of 20-30 people and they always offered for us to pay individually. Yes, it did take forever for them to process all the payments - some cash, some card - but they also just...

Another article that seems to forget there are countries other than Australia in the world. We’re becoming as bad as America in thinking our way is the only way. If they wanted to do any real journalism they should investigate why Australia is the only country in the world where card surcharges...

Only in Australia. Split billing has never been a problem in the UK, or anywhere else I’ve travelled.

I honestly don’t think they could. Maybe as a long shot if you’ve ever had a National Insurance number or a UK Driving Licence? Your details might then be in a gov.uk system because you would‘ve needed to prove your citizenship or residency rights to get those. Still, I’d be astounded if they...

Story is really getting a good run in the Aussie media but I think some of the reporting is a bit irresponsible and inaccurate, eg: “descendants who might have gained UK citizenship will also need a British passport” From: More than 1m Australians on notice over UK immigration change...

It seems this has only really blown up in the Australian media, there’s little to no coverage about this elsewhere. So at least you’re not competing with a worldwide influx of passport applications.

Especially that they are charging so much for it - £500 to renounce but £100 for a passport. The high fee must just be to disincentivise people from renouncing?

Lots of stories about this in the ABC news, article today about people renouncing their UK citizenship in protest of these changes: British-born Aussies give up UK citizenship in response to passport rules Interestingly it hasn’t got much attention at all in the UK press. This was the only...

I think you are technically a UK citizen since it’s automatically passed down one generation to children born outside the UK to a British parent (see: Apply for citizenship if you have a British parent). However since you’ve never officially claimed that citizenship or registered it in any...

UK passport also gets visa free entry to Vietnam, Turkey, Chile, Brunei, and several African countries and island nations. With an Australian passport you need to get for visas for those countries. You can also spend up to 8 months a year in the Bahamas on a UK passport; just 3 on the Aussie.

I just read about this on ABC Australia news. Interestingly haven’t seen much about it in the news in the UK. They’re too busy complaining about Europe now requiring Brits to register their fingerprints upon arrival. This will affect a lot of people around the world. There’s a lot of dual UK...