British Expats - Change in passport procedures

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Re: Change in passport procedures

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Originally Posted by MAV_DXB (Post 10589000)

I used my gold Skywards card to enter and exit, my Skywards expired Feb and they still haven't sent my new card, so when I return in a week or two's time I'll just use my other passport and enter on a tourist visa.

yes, but the egate that is attached to your skywards card has not expired.

What is annoying is when they give you a new skywards card you can't put the egate on it until the other expires. You end up needing both, one for the check in machine, the other for the egate. brilliant.

Re: Change in passport procedures

So what happens if you try to come back in and the e-gate machines aren't working? I guess you'd have to get a tourist visa?

Re: Change in passport procedures

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Originally Posted by csdf (Post 10589059)

So what happens if you try to come back in and the e-gate machines aren't working? I guess you'd have to get a tourist visa?

Not sure it would work at all. I arrived a bit pissed into AUH last year when my residence was on my old passport. I couldn't find it, so just presumed I'd left it in Scotland. Told them that I'd left it behind, but I had my current passport (no visa), they could just put me in as a tourist, and I'd get someone to courier it over. Was a big no. It was either fly back to Scotland and get it, or have the residence visa cancelled immediately. Gave my bags one last look through and found it thankfully.

Re: Change in passport procedures

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Originally Posted by csdf (Post 10589059)

So what happens if you try to come back in and the e-gate machines aren't working? I guess you'd have to get a tourist visa?

Yep, just get a tourist visa, that's what I'll be doing in a couple of weeks time. There's no need for them to know that you have a visa in another passport, that'll just confuse them, hence the post by Brains1983 above. Keep things simple.

Re: Change in passport procedures

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Originally Posted by csdf (Post 10588841)

Does anyone know what happens when you have two British passports and want to renew one? Do you just renew it as normal, or do you have to do something special? Also, I can't remember now which one of my passports is the "second" passport - so if I have to do something special I won't know which passport I'm supposed to do it with.

I don't know by post, but the process in person late last year was:
- Fill in the form reflecting the passport you want renewed
- Take both passports
- Hand over both passports with letter from company saying you still need both
- Have them flick through them, see a million visa stamps, and say "good grief you travel a lot"
- Get the not-to-be-renewed passport back and let the other one get processed as "normal"
- Pick up a nice new passport

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Originally Posted by MAV_DXB (Post 10588992)

Is one of the passports designated as a 'second' passport? I just use whichever one is to hand when travelling, or if applying for visas I leave the one with my UAE visa in the UAE and travel on my other - which is what I'm doing right now as I'm in Shanghai and I need a KSA visa.

Not in the UK but yes in the UAE - you can only enter and leave on the passport with your visa in it. Of course you can enter on a tourist visa but it can really upset them, and they can and do refuse you exit if you try to leave without the passport containing the visa. (Easiest way for them to notice is the egate machine screwing up but showing the egate bloke your passport and visa details...)

Re: Change in passport procedures

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Originally Posted by Norm_uk (Post 10588798)

I wonder if any Germans actually work there.

N.

Some were. Mostly Brits though - ex-Army or their wives and children.