Australian Dual Citizens Entering UK after February

[New to this]

As you pointed out up thread, this warning was posted on the UK Gov website last September.
I’m not sure if there was a press release or the Media simply didn’t run it, but there was plenty of warning imo.

I travel there regularly and never heard a thing
No signs at Heathrow saying ‘attention dual citizens’. Nothing

Nothing on SmartTraveller
Even our travel agent knew nothing about it.

I expect we’ll all need to check Gov.UK websites regularly in future.

 

[Bugs]

I travel there regularly and never heard a thing
No signs at Heathrow saying ‘attention dual citizens’. Nothing

Nothing on SmartTraveller
Even our travel agent knew nothing about it.

I expect we’ll all need to check Gov.UK websites regularly in future.

Even Qantas check in at Adelaide domestic knew nothing. And the check in agent knew nothing…..I don’t have much faith in the system.

 

[Flyingwombat]

Every time I fly international from Australia I see someone ‘rejected’ at the e-gates. The officer now just calls out ‘do you have another passport?’. Invariably the passenger does. They're told to use that one and they're on their way!

I think that’s what was behind the passport linking… even though it might have taken us a few years to get there. Because initially when they started doing the linking you still had to use your aussie passport at the e-gates.

I had this the last time I travelled to UK (April last year). I've always kept my UK passport and became Aussie in 2002. I had not had a problem before but this time I put in my UK passport number with Qantas. I couldn't check in online and at the desk the lady said she had seen this issue before and needed to call Immigration. I looked worried but she kept reassuring me all was OK. She linked up the passports on the phone and then all was good. I couldn't scan out of Australia at the automatic gates but the staff checked both passports manually and said it should be OK the next time...

I am flying to London from Hobart via Perth in a few days - interested to see what Hobart check in do. This time I haven't entered either passport and will just handover both and say "do your thing" in the system!

As an aside, I personally don't get the whining. UK passports are cheap and easy to renew. Why pay loads of money to renounce your citizenship or pay for a certificate of entitlement when you can get a cheap passport that is valid for 10 years? I also saved a fortune in Chile, Brasil and Viet Nam where no visa needed on the UK one.