Thread: british passport

Originally Posted by martinozcmax

Sorry Simon but that's garbage. How the hell would anyone know if you rocked up with a current Aus passport. My daughter has both Aus and Brit passports and uses either at will.

Well, like I said, only going from personal experience.

But, I found that you can't apply for a visa to enter a country that you are already a citizen of.

I'm sure your daughter uses her passports as she wishes, but as I do, I suspect that when she is entering a country to which she holds citizenship, she enters via the citizens door at the airport, and not via visit aliens.

Simon

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

A friend in Immigration Dept. recommends you always leave and re-enter Australia using your Australian passport.

This is important for anyone traveling on multi passports. You MUST use the Australian one to leave and enter Australia. They do not care if you have been away and yet do not have any stamps in it to show where you have been.

What you need to show is that you are Australian with the right to live here to the Imigration people. If you use a foreign passport they can refuse you entry as you would need to enter the country under one of the visa categories and if necessary have the visa. Being refused entry to your home country and deported is not a great way to end a holiday.

In the "old" days it was useful to carry more than one passport, thinking here of Africa. If you had a South African stamp in your passport, some African countries would not let you in. This possibly applied between other countries that hated each other.

Need to be careful carrying more than one passport though...
Example: Work associate on round world trip arrived in the good ol USA and entered on UK passport. Came to leave and pulled out his Australian passport, they almost through away the key. He was in real strife for a while. They simply did not understand that an honest person would have more than one passport, only a crim/terrorist etc. This was a short time after 9/11 and of course they were all pretty uptight at the that time.

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Originally Posted by miky

They simply did not understand that an honest person would have more than one passport, only a crim/terrorist etc.

I tend to agree with this. How many countries can you pledge loyalty to at the same time and mean it?

I know that if a Danish citizen takes out citizenship of another country, the relevant Embassy writes to them and requests their Danish passport be handed back forthwith.

G'day,

I'm one of these dual citizenship cases. Born in West Oz, applied for UK citizenship as my mum was from UK, as we were looking to finish school etc.

Ended up joining military and spending 10 years there, but with plenty of return trip home to keep the accent real!!

This was in mid 80's, and I believe the rules were tightened, but you could still get it done.

These days with less restrictive travel requirements, just an Aussie passport is fine. I recently renewed the EU passport (pommy passports essentially ended 10yrs ago) at ouch expense, only at expectation of regular travel.

ALWAYS leave and enter Australia on your Australian passport....otherwise customs and immigration will tie you up in admin and questions. (They are the few people that actually look at the immigration stamps!).

Likewise enter and leave pommyland on the EU one, as it's faster through customs.....but if you only have the Aussie one, use the time in the queue to acclimatise to the cold!!


aew849

Just do not expect too much help from The Australian Embassy if you get into trouble travelling on another passport. The Consuls take a rightfully very dim view of people travelling on second country passports who come to the embassy for help or money.

When I was in Riyadh, an Australian vet was on a ship in the gulf that was hit by a couple of RPG7s. He wanted help to get off the ship and enter Saudi and called the Oz embassy, who told him to talk to the Brits seeing he was on a British passport. I think the Brits told him to talk to the Oz embassy.

I am dead against dual passports . You can only be loyal to one country. If you want to be a Brit, go live in Britain.

Same with all the Greeks who do military service there to ensure thay can own land. We shouldn't let someone back in who has done military service in another country. Who are they loyal to?
Regards Philip A

I dont think there is anything wrong with having an OPTION.......loyalty is a different thing!

once I get my ozzie passport I will have two, just because I have two passports does make me less loyal i think that is just BS.