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My wife moved to Belgium for me 8 years ago and also has dual citizenship. She assumed it would be fine to travel on Belgium passport + ETA but that's not allow
by noroot 7mo ago
My wife moved to Belgium for me 8 years ago and also has dual citizenship. She assumed it would be fine to travel on Belgium passport + ETA but that's not allowed.
She also had to go through a very expensive process to renew her British passport last minute.
Silly system.
- oncallthrow 7mo ago> Silly system. Frankly it strikes me as being rather silly to not have a British passport as a British citizen.
- dcminter 7mo agoIt costs money and my European passport is far more useful to me.
- oncallthrow 7mo agoThe cost of a passport is negligible (~£10 per year on average), and it’s not reasonable to expect the UK to spend a lot of money architecting the system around a very small minority of dual citizens who don’t have passports.
- dcminter 7mo agoWhy should any special architecting be required given that I am an EU citizen with an EU passport. On the contrary, effort was expended to prevent me from obtaining an ETA to no purpose that has ever been justified. Yes, I personally am not deeply inconvenienced by this, but that doesn't make it ok. Others are on much tighter budgets than me.
- eldaisfish 7mo agothen relinquish your citizenship. If obtaining a passport from a country where you are a citizen is such a hassle for you, you must focus on the only logical solution.
- dcminter 7mo agoMy native-Swedish friends all complain about the bureaucracy here, but it is so much more efficient than the British stuff. Some of that, though, is a side-effect of the ubiquitous "Bank ID" identity tool - which suffers from the same dependency on Apple/Google that the article complains about. Given the current political climate I think the EU is going to have to figure something out to address this sort of thing.