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British girl, 15, stranded in Rome for six weeks due to new passport rules (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

Yeah but the Irish passport can travel freely between EU and UK. So no bother.

Maybe hearing this from someone directly makes you understand that this really wasn't something everyone knew about?

Fair enough. I also want to know how many dual national travellers did follow the rules since they were introduced to see how much of a problem this is. For example if 1000 dial nationals followed the rules without issue but the guardian found four examples of people that didn't... well. Or is every single dual national getting caught out?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Yes that would be useful data. But I consider myself fairly well plugged in, and am planning a big holiday soon so am pretty switched on to travel issues. If I missed the information, I don't think there can have been much if an advertising campaign, because I would have been aware of it.

    One way to approach this kind of thing, besides having a public information campaign, is to enact it over a long period of time - at least a year - so that all those people who do routinely travel back on foreign passports have a chance to go on a summer holiday, come back and be informed at the border, "next year you will need a British passport." This isn't rocket science - it should be possible to make the number of people caught out very small indeed. (Given that we can guess at least half of dual national residents have and travel with a British passport anyway!)

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