Thread: Daily or weekly cheer

My new tradional British passport arrived back today within a week of renewing it!

It looks black not dark blue to me

Size, shape, colour...there is nothing 'traditional' about it.

Printed in Poland.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Printed in Poland.

What's the official excuse for that?

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!!

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Produced in Poland by a company headquartered in France using Italian software to print Spanish ink on Finnish paper.

And the people holding them can't waltz through the EU immigration lines when visiting any of those countries. Presumably.


What a fok up of Fawlty Tower-esque proportions.

Originally Posted by Edmond

And the people holding them can't waltz through the EU immigration lines when visiting any of those countries. Presumably.


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.

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...

Originally Posted by Troy

an EU residence card

My EU passports have never looked so golden.


They are available for rent btw.

My brother's been extreme and got himself an Irish passport.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Seems like it's caused massive ballache in Mendy's game too.

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.

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.

Originally Posted by BLD

. 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.

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.

I've decided to queue.

Originally Posted by BLD

Might come in handy for the kids though. They might be entitled to one ? Citizenship by descent.

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.

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!)

Originally Posted by cyrille

Seems like it's caused massive ballache in Mendy's game too.

Conversely, they can't find anywhere near enough English teachers for language schools in Britain since Brexit.

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.

Originally Posted by Mendip

My daughter was entitled to Aussie citizenship due to her Thai mother being a naturalised Aussie, nothing more.

I had to marry my childrens' thai mother for them to "become" danes !

Makes sense to me

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Oh, I absolutely love standing in line at passport control for 90 minutes with every other nationality under the sun.

Some will swop their home country's independency for shorter airport queues.

Sad shit, innit ?

Originally Posted by BLD

Might come in handy for the kids though. They might be entitled to one ? Citizenship by descent.

Yes, so long as you are not British "by descent".

Originally Posted by Neverna

Yes, so long as you are not British "by descent".

Hmm

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"