http://www.uk.embassy.gov.au/lhlh/PptsFAQs.html

Question 9 and 10.

http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question...3142639AAMOjXf

Maybe not the not the most accurate.

http://www.immi.gov.au/media/fact-sh...5documents.htm

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=615058

From here.

Not entirely true. You can enter the UK as an Australian even if you have a Brit passport.

It doesn't work the other way around as you need a visa in a Brit passport to enter Aus and you cannot get a visa if you are Australian.

OK, shouldn't have said 'must', should have said 'should'. Even the vaguely incompetent UK customs officials may ask questions if you go in on an Aus passport whilst holding a UK one.

You're just making this up as you go. Typical bloody mod


Actually the lady just asked if we were entering as Australian or Brits. After we said Australian she didn't ask to see the Brit passports.

I have to say...I've been thinking the Mods need a Mod of their own to keep an eye on them recently, they're getting way out of hand

You'd miss us if we weren't here..................

Although why anybody would want to stand around in the non-EU queue at Heathrow is beyond me!

australian queues are horrible. I cant tell which line is which with the amount of multicultural in this country.

Correct, which is why the UK gets its own back at Heathrow

Non AU and AU lines have gotten more confusing in the last 5 years though.

It would have cost us something like $1000 (5 passports) extra just to go into the EU queue. Didn't think it was worth it, just to spend more time waiting for the luggage to come out.

And as luck would have it. We were escorted to the front of the Non-EU queue anyway. So we got all that time to wait around for the luggage for free.

Also when my dad asked me to help feed the animals on the farm I said I couldn't because Immigration said I was not allowed to work.

Speaking of doing something like that, how can one draw the line between helping and working if its family or family ties?

You can work your proverbials off as long as your not getting paid for it (in cash or in kind).

Also if you are a Brit citizen you can work anyway. The people at immigration are just the gate keepers. They have to process you as an Aussie if you don't have a Brit passport. Working is a different matter.

So if you an Aussie and a Brit. You could turn up on a Aussie passport and start working. If you decided to stay it would probably be best to notify immigration who will need to check your Brit status. Passport is the easiest way to do this.

In your case (as described so far). I can't see any problems entering as an Aussie and then contacting immigration when your Brit passport turns up. But it's probably best to have a story if they ask about the lack of return ticket (e.g. you're visiting family in the UK first and then travelling onto Europe).

actually that didn't work at all, because they wont send the passport to the UK if i've applied from australia. That was my first hurdle :<
So instead I tried to see if I could apply whilst in Germany or Finland. I was told I can, but i'd need to be there for 3 months or longer for it to process and well what do you know, can only stay there for 3 months before I get sent back. This whole process has become a great big headflopping migraine :<