JAJ

You may get a lecture at the immigration exit passport check.

wayne/kerrie

Hi , Sorry to jump into the thread but have i got this right..........

My son is a Australian citizens by descent and he as got a aussie passport , we are returning home after doing 18months here , so does that mean cause he as not done a full 2 year that if he wanted to emigrate later in life with his children he would not be allowed to take them ???

Hope ive worded that right

cheers

JAJ

He cannot pass on his Australian citizenship by descent until he clocks up a full 2 years (730 days) in Australia. But maybe he can go back himself later on - study, working holiday etc?

Otherwise he would need to sponsor any of his future children to migrate and have them naturalised.

bluejohn

I always leave and enter Australia this way except once, when I attempted to leave the UK on an Australian passport I was stopped on my way out and made to explain why. We will make sure when we return this time that we have our UK passports.

clougherty family

Hi Tracy,

I'm sure you can just use you British passport going in and out as you are still a British citizen. You do need to get an Aussie passport at some point though otherwise because it's proof you are an Aussie citizen.

If I was you I'd just book a one way ticket

Jo

rparsons66

HI Tracy,
We have just done this. You cannot re-enter Aus withot an Australian passport even if you are a citizen if you have had your PR cancelled. We learnt the hard way. OH had to fly back to the UK in an emergency and as he left the country on his UK passport they told him he would not be allowed back into OZ without an Aussie passport, which he had to sort out in London. They said he would be detained even if only temporarily - not worth the hassle!!! They usually like you to leave on your Oz passport, go into UK on your UK and then leave UK and arrive in Oz on your Aussie passports.

Our experience anyway.
Becky
(Now back in perth for 3 years after a wonderful year back in the UK )

TraceyW

Hey Becky, thanks for the PM by the way But I really think you should share your opinions with all of us wannabe returnee's, maybe it would really help someone. We all need to step onto UK soil with our eyes wide open and not with rose tinted hues anywhere in sight.

So, could you share with us all how it all went when you where back there, where did you live, what did you feel etc......oh, and most importantly, why the bloody hell you've come back here?!!!

brits1

When we became citizens we recieved our passports but our British ones had ran out...all we did was apply for our British Passports......over the internet...via Canberra and recieved our Britsh Passports in about 2 weeks....we now have both and when we travelled around Europe (you still had to have your passports then) we used our British ones....)..heaven forbid if I would of let them "go"...my OH and sons would never forgive me!!!!
Good luck and all the best for your holiday...........................may the weather be kind to you as it was to us last year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

brits1

Yes thats how we travel very easy and to tell you the truth the look on our sons faces when they hold their British Passports on their arrivals in the U.K.......they do look so proud.....honestly......

rparsons66

Hmmm, I could and I will, but it's a long story and right now I dont have the time or the energy to try and put it down into coherent thoughts!!!

Will try and get to it ....