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"
:)