My new tradional British passport arrived back today within a week of renewing it!
It looks black not dark blue to me:UK:
https://teakdoor.com/attachment.php?...5&d=1706387986
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My new tradional British passport arrived back today within a week of renewing it!
It looks black not dark blue to me:UK:
https://teakdoor.com/attachment.php?...5&d=1706387986
Size, shape, colour...there is nothing 'traditional' about it.
Printed in Poland.
:rolleyes:
What's the official excuse for that?Quote:
Originally Posted by cyrille
Produced in Poland by a company headquartered in France using Italian software to print Spanish ink on Finnish paper.
:)
^ Hurrah for Brexit!
TaKiNg BaCk cOnTrOl!
Didn't the UK company that used to produce the passport go bankrupt because they lost the contract?
So much for Brexit eh...
Maggie wouldn't have allowed it.
Bring her back!!
And the people holding them can't waltz through the EU immigration lines when visiting any of those countries. Presumably.Quote:
Originally Posted by hallelujah
What a fok up of Fawlty Tower-esque proportions. :)
Oh, I absolutely love standing in line at passport control for 90 minutes with every other nationality under the sun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edmond
When you factor in the need to spend time and money on work visas too, I just can't believe how blessed we are.
So much winning since Brexit!
Seems like it's caused massive ballache in Mendy's game too.
Oh, the joys of having an EU residence card...:)
My EU passports have never looked so golden. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy
They are available for rent btw.
My brother's been extreme and got himself an Irish passport.
In addition to the endless queues at European airports, a full page of my passport lost with every offshore work trip (4 Shengen stamps) I have also lost all Norwegian onshore work, something I had been nurturing for over 30 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by cyrille
The Poles, for one nationality, have been laughing all the way to the bank since Brexit. They've never had so much work.
My first time overseas at the age of 18 I went to India then the UK because my bro was getting married in Scotland so I figured it would be advantageous to turn up with a pommy passport having been born in Scotland and relocated to Oz when I was 2 . Way before all that brexit nonsense. Later on I had to attend a citizenship ceremony to gain an aussie passport. The pommy ones long since expired and I can see no reason to apply for a new one.
Might come in handy for the kids though. They might be entitled to one ? Citizenship by descent.
I started going down the path of getting an Irish passport in the summer. I got most of the documents together and then realised it would take up to 2 years once they'd been sent in, would cost well over a grand and I'd have to attend a citizenship ceremony to finally receive it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLD
I've decided to queue. :)
I would have thought your kids would surely be entitled to a UK passport, I'd sort out the citizenship papers/passport asap if I were you. You never know what's in the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLD
My daughter was entitled to Aussie citizenship due to her Thai mother being a naturalised Aussie, nothing more. I don't have a drop of Aussie blood (thank God!):)
Conversely, they can't find anywhere near enough English teachers for language schools in Britain since Brexit.Quote:
Originally Posted by cyrille
I've had 2 emails in the last 10 days alone asking me if I'm available for an immediate start and/or summer school.
Sadly, it hasn't affected the miserly rates on offer although the best of the bunch has offered me an extra 50p an hour and free lunch. :)
I had to marry my childrens' thai mother for them to "become" danes !Quote:
Originally Posted by Mendip
Makes sense to me
Some will swop their home country's independency for shorter airport queues.Quote:
Originally Posted by hallelujah
Sad shit, innit ?
Yes, so long as you are not British "by descent".Quote:
Originally Posted by BLD
HmmQuote:
Originally Posted by Neverna
Both meanings, eh ?
I used quotation marks because "by descent" has a special meaning in UK immigration law. See below.
According to British nationality law, all UK citizens are either citizens 'by descent' or British citizens 'otherwise than by descent'.
British citizenship 'by descent' is when someone who was born overseas is able to apply for British citizenship based on their parents status as British citizens.
British citizens 'by descent' are not able to pass on their British citizenship to their children who were born outside the UK whilst citizens 'otherwise than by descent' are able to do so.
Oh
I thought it was something like when Hillary got his knighthood by "descent"
:)
So, basically, his sons can get a British passport, but their future kids won't be able to if they're not born in the UK.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neverna
I don't drink coffee in the morning anymore so may be completely wrong. :)
That is the way that I understand it. My ex is British, our son was born in Bangkok. If he were to marry another Brit in the same situation as himself and if they then had a child born outside the UK then my grandchild would not be immediately eligible for British citizenship, despite having four British grandparents. If born in Thailand the child wouldn't be eligible for Thai nationality either. It is an unlikely situation, still I wonder what would happen then. Easier to claim to be from Afghanistan and land at night on the Kent coast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edmond
My nippers had Lao passports and aussie passports because of citizenship by descent. They were actually born in aek udon thani by caesarian I refused to put my wife under the lao hospital system . But in Lao you can't hold 2 passports so now they hold Aussie passports only. Can't change that. But yeah they can possibly get a uk passport due to there dad being a sweaty sock with bad habits?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mendip
When they want to travel they can decide for themselves how they want to roll.
^ So long as your parents are proper British citizens and not by descent (this may apply to your Grandparents as well) I think your kids will be entitled to UK British passports no problem.
When my daughter was born the first thong I did was get her registered in UK and Australia and sort out citizen papers/passports. You never know how the rules will change in the future.
Exactly . Things have a habit of changing so probably no harm in getting them UK passports as well. Wether ( spelling ) they use them or not. In the meantime I will teach them the ways of the Aussies
Ma and pa were definitely British citizens ( both deceased now) immigrated to Oz in 66
It must be the topic of 'passports'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mendip
Aussie Scots.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLD
I won't make the obvious comment about the chances of getting a drink out of them in the future! :)
That is fast, now you can travel!! Malta?Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe 90
I got mine last summer, and I got the ten year one. We have the option of a 5 or 10 yr. My last one was five and I've already went through 4 passports, so decided to get the ten yr one this time. Is the British passport for ten years?
That is cool for you and Mendips' children to have more than one passport. It is always easier to travel and stay longer for visa purposes.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLD
I taught a lot of children with many different passports especially in China.
Quote:
Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe
dafuc?
Do you think you get to stay twice as long if you have two passports?
:shrug:
:durh:
Enjoying a strong US market.
https://i.imgur.com/ctWXXES.jpg
As a stock holder, Amazon rolling. Record Earnings. Financial outlook looks even better next quarter.. The 2023 dip number was the 20.1 split adjustment. Adjusted was just under a hundred. Now at $171. Life is good.
Happy Friday :)
On Friday I ran my tongue across a rough patch of tooth for the the thousandth time and decided to go and see a dentist. The filling needed replacing and I'd already put this off for months. Dental emergencies are the main cause of medivacs from offshore installations/vessels and the contractors get well pissed off if the emergencies are avoidable, and rightly so, and I go offshore next week.
So, I left an hour early on the school run, stopped off at my dentist in Korat with no appointment, she gave me a check-up and replaced the filling all for 1600 Baht.
And I still arrived at school with 20 minutes to spare.
That's the cheer.
And then I read about people queuing up around the block in Bristol, UK just to sign on to a dentist, let alone to get an appointment or get work done.
WTF has happened to Old Blighty?
https://teakdoor.com/attachment.php?...3&d=1707529076
Probably the last NHS dentist in Bristol. The Pattel sisters?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mendip