Australian Dual Citizens Entering UK after February

[MEL_Traveller]

I needed to check to see if Dad had registered as a British Citizen in his own right. These people seem to think they are official.

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Your father would likely be automatically British.

There’d be little incentive to register as there’d be no benefit to it.

if citizenship wasn’t automatic, there will have been advantages to register.

So a ‘nil’ result in your search means little in terms of nationality.

Absolute proof would be applying for ‘proof of non citizenship’, with its £400 fee.

 

[Flashback]

Most people have said once you are in the UK, you are in!

Yes, this is true....... they've been trying to get rid of me for a decade and a half now.

 

[transpactraveller]

Looks like it's now become a political issue in the UK

‘Left completely in the lurch’: British MP attacks UK dual-citizen passport chaos

The fury around the UK’s change in entry requirements for dual citizens has reached the House of Commons in London.

travelweekly.com.au

 

[LondonAussie]

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)

Expired British passport issued as long ago as 1989 could get dual nationals into UK

Exclusive: Home Office has told airlines they can accept ‘possible alternative documentation’ from citizens of two countries

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Zero]

The difference, however, is that you don’t need a valid ETIAS to board the plane.

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.

I needed to check to see if Dad had registered as a British Citizen in his own right. These people seem to think they are official.

As written in the letter, that search was for records of people who have naturalised, i.e. foreigners who moved to the UK and lived there for between 1 and 5 years, which then made them eligible to go through the process to become citizens (which may have involved attending a ceremony, though I'm not sure if they had ceremonies in 1986).

 

[MEL_Traveller]

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.

Oh my gosh yes! You’re right.

I got confuses between the EES and ETIAS.

I thought I completed the ETIAS on arrival in Germany last week! But it’s not… it’s the former (EES).

I have amended my original post accordingly.

Citizenship ceremonies were introduced in 2004.