bramallblade

I did some more digging and you are right. It's a mess. Bulgaria? WTF? They are nowhere near as highly vaccinated as Canada.

bramallblade

Thanks for this. The quarantine is a total mess. Day 5 test to release is also a scam. It isn't day 5, but more like day 8 by the time you get the results.

Revin Kevin

We are coming the other way and the UK government's continued and seemingly arbitrary advice not to travel to Amber countries also means travel insurance is invalidated.

OrangeMango

Considering how many people were in the Wembley stadium at the UEFA cup final the current entry requirements for the fully vaccinated into the UK are a bad joke.

Bulgaria is on the green list? Why actually? Canada and Germany has way lower rates than the UK? And then Boris Johnson is speaking about further relaxation of the rules within the UK. It's a bit of an idiocy in my mind.

bramallblade

What's really messed up is that they are relaxing quarantine rules for UK residents vaccinated by the NHS with their approved jabs but not for UK citizens who had the same jabs abroad not through the NHS.

The whole testing process is a massive money maker.

OrangeMango

That's precisely it. British citizens, stranded overseas, and getting vaccinated for the exact reason, to return quarantine and testing free. And I am not talking about Sputnik or Sinopharm, but the approved ones, J&J, Biontech/Pfizer and Moderna.

Once Ireland has ratified the EU mandated "green passport" with the QR code, you can actually try to get back into the UK via Ireland and the Northern Ireland border.

bramallblade

Did some more digging and we were hoping to do the test to release day 5 plan. We finally found a local test on site spot near my parent's place. And were hoping to use the day 8 test as the test for pre flight to come back. Nope. For some reason only Boris knows, that is not acceptable. All about making money.

OrangeMango

I know. At the same time Boris wants to make masks only optional in the tube, public transport, trains, etc....

I think there may be a way in as it states "non resident British citizens". How do they determine at the border that one is non resident in the UK? Especially if one hasn't even had an income in that foreign country due to Corona. So with a British passport in hand, a vaccination certificate, a British debit and credit card and the still existing NiNo number one could easily be exempt from that costly testing-orgy by Boris.

Apparently you're exempt from this all, if you're British, vaccinated overseas with an approved vaccine, but still resident in the UK.

bramallblade

Right! I have been thrashing through the options with my parents on video calls (it is my bro's wedding on the 30th) and I said to them... "I hope you remember all this by the time the next election rolls around".

OrangeMango

Wait until Ireland accepts the QR code and go in via Northern Ireland. It's extra time, but for the cost of tests I'd rather travel across the UK than pay for political idiocy.

Siouxie

I believe because you will need to have the NHS confirmation of vaccination, if you reside in the UK - if you don't have it, you'll reveal that you are not resident in the UK.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/demonstr...ovid-19-status

BristolUK

What do the UK entry requirements have to do with tickets for a match only being available for people resident in the UK?

OrangeMango

To me a lot. Looking at how packed the stadium was, how bad the fan behaviour was, makes it ridiculous if you want to enter the UK as a fully vaccinated British citizen, still having to undergo various tests and other hurdles, if entering from an EU country with a lot lower incidence rate than the UK.

It might not be an issue to you otherwise you won't be asking, but it is an issue for me.

bramallblade

Circling back to this Ireland/EU business. Is this viable? Do we have any indication of timeline?

Next Q. I am struggling to find acceptable pre departure Covid tests to enter the UK in my area. The nearest is in Oshawa and I am near Kingston in Napanee.

This whole mess is doing my head in now. Not sure I can even make it over for my brother's wedding as everything is so difficult. Also, day 8 test doesn't count as pre-departure test because nobody knows why except maybe money.

BristolUK

It's not an issue because your question appeared to suggest that thousands of people were able to enter the UK for a football match when they weren't. Apologies if I misunderstood.

But if you don't want to have anything to do with 60000 football fans then don't go to the football match.