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All UK birth certificates are certified copies. The "original" is handwritten in a large book by the birth registrar when you go to register the birth. You don't necessarily need to get more copies from the GRO, if you know which council the person was born in you can go directly to them. It...

Canada has a process for people with another visa-exempt citizenship to be approved to fly there on the other passport. Canadian/US citizens can also just use a US passport as Americans are exempt from Canadian eTAs, although those with a US criminal record might be denied entry if they can't...

Well if it works it will be an improvement for me, my current British passport expires 2033 but maybe I'll be able to use it for a number of years after expiry, and not renew until I need it for a country which charges Australians a (higher) visa fee.

Where have you read this? The entire point of ETIAS (and ETAs and ESTAs) is to stop people boarding flights to destinations where they have a high chance of being refused entry. As written in the letter, that search was for records of people who have naturalised, i.e. foreigners who moved to...

I haven't found anywhere in Taiwan with good exchange rates for cash, USD or others - but all my trips to Taiwan have been via Hong Kong or Thailand where it's easy to change all major and many minor currencies to and from TWD for under 1% spread (which is a double spread as you have to go...

Yes, if the mother has an Irish passport the child is automatically an Irish citizen from birth. Northern Ireland is complicated. The Good Friday Agreement says that people belonging to NI can choose to be British, Irish or both. Irish citizenship law is written in a way that supports this. It...

But checkin agents might refuse to let you check in anyway if they guess that you might be British. I spent COVID in the UK/Europe and lack of knowledge didn't stop check-in agents there making up nonsense about COVID rules and wrongly denying boarding. At least in the UK/Europe there are...

No passport checks in Step 1, but you now need to provide API to Eurostar before they will release your ticket. Eurostar does not seem to check that the person travelling is the person whose API was submitted - but people with invalid documentation such as no ETA will be caught by the actual...

Eurostar will check ETAs electronically before they let you into the secure area. If you manage to have a valid ETA in a foreign passport despite being a British citizen, nothing will be different. France does not care about the UK's rules. In fact, having Eurostar enforce the ETA helps...

The Guardian doesn't do well when it comes to reporting about UK immigration. Most of their articles about the Windrush scandal and post-Brexit problems faced by EU citizens in the UK contained major errors about immigration rules.

You can see current waiting times and contribute your own at Latest UK Passport Waiting Times | Updated Daily

Who did you contact exactly? Visas and immigration call centres are outsourced to private foreign companies and some call centre agents may never have been to the UK. They can only say what their scripts tell them to say. The UK Passport Office has nothing to do with that, and is all in the UK...

Only 10 years later than the UK, and around the same time as mainland European countries on average. and this is still a problem. I use the HSBC debit card as a surcharge buster but keep cash in BOQ/ME bank as the highest easy access savings - HSBC can send $50k to BOQ instantly, but to get...

In (most of) the rest of the world there isn't any need to tell staff in advance. In the UK some restaurants even automatically print the bill with the amount per person. Obviously it may be different for a large table where everyone wants to pay for the exact things they've ordered - that...

Nobody has the original of their own UK birth certificate. For births since 1837, the "original" is part of the birth register held by the council where the birth took place. Anything you hold is a certified copy (including the certified copy that you purchased at the time you registered your...

Well, there's no entitlement to an ETA. I don't think they would go to these lengths, but if they really wanted to stop unknowing citizens from using ETAs, they could theoretically deny an ETA on the suspicion that you may be a citizen, and ask you to apply for a full visa where your citizenship...

CX allows you to enter different API for each flight, I recently did SYD-HKG-LHR so put Aus pp into SYD-HKG and British pp into HKG-LHR. Aus pp worked at the SYD departure e-gates. I don't believe that my passports are "linked" in the ABF system unless the ABF guy did it when I was exiting PER...

Probably, however British citizenship has only existed since 1981. You would have been a British subject at birth. If you are legitimately descended from a father born in the UK, this would likely have converted to Citizen of the UK and Colonies in 1949, and likely converted to British...

Before 25 February there is no verification of ETAs by the UK government, only manually by airline staff. Some people born in Aus to UK-born parents are automatically British citizens, while others aren't, depending on their precise circumstances. As an example, if you're born before 1 July...

Do you always get included checked bags on domestic JQ redemptions?