Tip for travelling to the UK with two passports.
Nov 2nd 2007, 8:16 pm
#16
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Re: Tip for travelling to the UK with two passports.
It looks exactly the same as any other British passport except that instead of saying "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" it says "British Islands" followed by either "Bailiwick of Guernsey", "Bailiwick of Jersey" or "Isle of Man". The following shows a Guernsey passport:
http://www.gov.gg/ccm/navigation/hom...on/passports2/
Nationality status in one of these passports is still "British citizen"
Any British citizen resident in one of the Dependencies (whether they have local belonger status or not) who applies to the Island passport authorities will get one of these passports. British citizens elsewhere may apply for an Island passport if they have connections with that Dependency (birth etc).
I have a friend born in NI and he told me that the numbering scheme on his passport identified it as an NI issued UK passport. It caused us no end of problems crossing from Belgium to France in the late 80's (when they had douane there)
Nov 2nd 2007, 8:24 pm
#17
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Re: Tip for travelling to the UK with two passports.
The Crown Dependencies - Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man - issue their own form of British passport.
It looks exactly the same as any other British passport except that instead of saying "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" it says "British Islands" followed by either "Bailiwick of Guernsey", "Bailiwick of Jersey" or "Isle of Man". The following shows a Guernsey passport:
http://www.gov.gg/ccm/navigation/hom...on/passports2/
It looks exactly the same as any other British passport except that instead of saying "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" it says "British Islands" followed by either "Bailiwick of Guernsey", "Bailiwick of Jersey" or "Isle of Man". The following shows a Guernsey passport:
http://www.gov.gg/ccm/navigation/hom...on/passports2/
Nov 7th 2007, 3:37 pm
#18
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Re: Tip for travelling to the UK with two passports.
The Crown Dependencies - Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man - issue their own form of British passport.
It looks exactly the same as any other British passport except that instead of saying "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" it says "British Islands" followed by either "Bailiwick of Guernsey", "Bailiwick of Jersey" or "Isle of Man". The following shows a Guernsey passport:
http://www.gov.gg/ccm/navigation/hom...on/passports2/
Nationality status in one of these passports is still "British citizen"
Any British citizen resident in one of the Dependencies (whether they have local belonger status or not) who applies to the Island passport authorities will get one of these passports. British citizens elsewhere may apply for an Island passport if they have connections with that Dependency (birth etc).
In the past, the individual passport office (Belfast, Newport, Peterborough, Glasgow, London etc) was shown as part of the passport ID page. However the Belfast passport office on occasions dealt with applicants from other parts of the U.K. too.
It looks exactly the same as any other British passport except that instead of saying "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" it says "British Islands" followed by either "Bailiwick of Guernsey", "Bailiwick of Jersey" or "Isle of Man". The following shows a Guernsey passport:
http://www.gov.gg/ccm/navigation/hom...on/passports2/
Nationality status in one of these passports is still "British citizen"
Any British citizen resident in one of the Dependencies (whether they have local belonger status or not) who applies to the Island passport authorities will get one of these passports. British citizens elsewhere may apply for an Island passport if they have connections with that Dependency (birth etc).
In the past, the individual passport office (Belfast, Newport, Peterborough, Glasgow, London etc) was shown as part of the passport ID page. However the Belfast passport office on occasions dealt with applicants from other parts of the U.K. too.
(I'm from the wind swept rock in the middle of the irish sea aka Isle of Man!)
Nov 7th 2007, 7:45 pm
#19
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Location: Mississauga, Ontario
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Re: Tip for travelling to the UK with two passports.
I recently made a trip to the UK.
I used the British passport to enter and leave at Heathrow, and my Canadian one when arriving at Toronto. No problems.
My question is, though, what are Immigration Control Section doing when they swipe the passport barcode through their machine reader ? Does that record entry and leaving dates ?
I used the British passport to enter and leave at Heathrow, and my Canadian one when arriving at Toronto. No problems.
My question is, though, what are Immigration Control Section doing when they swipe the passport barcode through their machine reader ? Does that record entry and leaving dates ?
