Entry to Australia with an expired passport
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Re: Entry to Australia with an expired passport
I managed to get an outreach appointment in Leeds which I didn’t realise even existed! £479 later.... 3 passport renewal applications lodged. Just awaiting delivery. I was planning to get them renewed while in Perth so would have had a valid passport, or I assumed I could have left on my British passport.
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Re: Entry to Australia with an expired passport
Example: I'm dual Canadian/Australian, so if I'm flying to Canada I have to leave Australia on my Canadian passport. Airlines won't let me board without a Canadian ETA, and as a citizen I'm not able to get one, so therefore I cannot use the Australian one to leave the country.
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Re: Entry to Australia with an expired passport
Not quite. You can leave Australia on whatever passport you like. However you have to arrive back into Australia on the Australian one.
Example: I'm dual Canadian/Australian, so if I'm flying to Canada I have to leave Australia on my Canadian passport. Airlines won't let me board without a Canadian ETA, and as a citizen I'm not able to get one, so therefore I cannot use the Australian one to leave the country.
Example: I'm dual Canadian/Australian, so if I'm flying to Canada I have to leave Australia on my Canadian passport. Airlines won't let me board without a Canadian ETA, and as a citizen I'm not able to get one, so therefore I cannot use the Australian one to leave the country.
On a broader point that API cannot assign more than one passport to an individual is going to be causing more and more as the use of electronic travel authorities and automatic passport gate increases. To whit: a cohort of non-EU nations can now use the ePassport gates when arriving in the UK but with no stamp in their passport there’s no evidence of when they arrived. This is going to be a particular problem for those with visas of any kind as there’s no physical evidence they ever arrived on that visa.
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Re: Entry to Australia with an expired passport
"All Australians, including dual nationals, should leave and enter Australia on their Australian passport. If you have a passport from another country you can use that for travel once you have left Australia"
Source: https://smartraveller.gov.au/guide/P...nationals.aspx
Source: https://smartraveller.gov.au/guide/P...nationals.aspx
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Re: Entry to Australia with an expired passport
"All Australians, including dual nationals, should leave and enter Australia on their Australian passport. If you have a passport from another country you can use that for travel once you have left Australia"
Source: https://smartraveller.gov.au/guide/P...nationals.aspx
Source: https://smartraveller.gov.au/guide/P...nationals.aspx
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You can't do that if you leave on a foreign passport without a visa, it gets rejected and you have to talk to a real person - or, usually, the real person harangues you because you are technically visa-less in the country.
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Re: Entry to Australia with an expired passport
Reminds me of a couple of years ago my family and I checked in at Singapore, they for flights back to Australia and I was going elsewhere. They checked in using their British passports which were registered for their PR visas in Australia, no problems but for some reason when they landed in Sydney my wife handed immigration my sons' SA passports which weren't registered. Apparently the immigration officers almost had multiple hernias - until my wife said "Oopsie, wrong passports" and handed the registered ones over. She said they seemed quite upset.