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scotty9000 Dec 15th 2024 1:59 am

Re: Renewal of AU PASSPORT from the UK
 
AFAIK you require an Australian visa with a UK passport or you will not get on the plane. If you are an Australian citizen you cannot get a visa.

Pollyana Dec 15th 2024 7:17 am

Re: Renewal of AU PASSPORT from the UK
 

Originally Posted by scotty9000 (Post 13290424)
AFAIK you require an Australian visa with a UK passport or you will not get on the plane. If you are an Australian citizen you cannot get a visa.

Yep quite correct :) A citizen cannot hold a visa (although there are times when the system has failed and issued one in error)

Pollyana Dec 15th 2024 7:20 am

Re: Renewal of AU PASSPORT from the UK
 

Originally Posted by blackcab (Post 13290420)
What's short notice and where are you in your journey
A week before boarding or the day of travel.

Reasoning is board with UK passport go through AU customs on visiting visa if questions are asked in Australia you state your passport has expired
I came into the UK on an Australian passport last year as I had no UK passport still here no questions asked

UK rules (at present) are different from Australia.

Unlike Australia, the UK does not currently insist that its citizens enter and leave on a UK passport.

Wol Dec 23rd 2024 8:31 pm

Re: Renewal of AU PASSPORT from the UK
 
Hi Polly - long time no see!
FWIW Sue had to renew her UK passport a week or two ago - online - and it was delivered in about ten days: very good despite being near Xmas!

Pollyana Dec 24th 2024 1:35 am

Re: Renewal of AU PASSPORT from the UK
 

Originally Posted by Wol (Post 13291614)
Hi Polly - long time no see!
FWIW Sue had to renew her UK passport a week or two ago - online - and it was delivered in about ten days: very good despite being near Xmas!

Hey matey! Good to hear from you! Hope you're both doing well :)
Good news on the passport - at least she didn't need to be fingerprinted for it :thumbup::lol:

Wol Dec 24th 2024 1:06 pm

Re: Renewal of AU PASSPORT from the UK
 
Happy Christmas! How're you?
We are very quiet nowadays, spend most of our time in doctors, scans, hospitals and the like: great fun and expensive too..
I'm able to drive again after a stroke two years ago and a couple of months in hospital: I was very lucky in recognising it, the ambulance was quick and at 0500 a team was waiting to drill into my head - they were waiting for suitable patients for a new trial procedure. Sometimes we get lucky!
ATB Rog

Pollyana Dec 24th 2024 11:01 pm

Re: Renewal of AU PASSPORT from the UK
 

Originally Posted by Wol (Post 13291698)
Happy Christmas! How're you?
We are very quiet nowadays, spend most of our time in doctors, scans, hospitals and the like: great fun and expensive too..
I'm able to drive again after a stroke two years ago and a couple of months in hospital: I was very lucky in recognising it, the ambulance was quick and at 0500 a team was waiting to drill into my head - they were waiting for suitable patients for a new trial procedure. Sometimes we get lucky!
ATB Rog

Not often having your head drilled into is lucky, but sounds like it was in your case! Glad you got through it ok. Does sound like an expensive lifestyle now, medical costs are crazy over there.
I'm doing ok, happily settled back in sunny Brighton (well, Hove, actually :D ). Australia was an adventure, but there's nowhere like home!

Wol Dec 25th 2024 10:08 am

Re: Renewal of AU PASSPORT from the UK
 
Had no idea you were back "home" - how long? It's years since I poked back into the forum - makes us homesick!
Rog

Pollyana Dec 25th 2024 11:31 am

Re: Renewal of AU PASSPORT from the UK
 

Originally Posted by Wol (Post 13291761)
Had no idea you were back "home" - how long? It's years since I poked back into the forum - makes us homesick!
Rog

I was homesick anyway, the forum gave me a lot of help with getting home though!
Came home in March last year, I'd always said I'd come back when I retired, but the isolation of COVID, and the attitudes of many people around me in Queensland (such as us nasty foreigners being blamed for bringing COVID in :O ) just made me bring it forward. So I'm now broke but much happier, back where I started!


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