CPW

Use your British passport to check in. (The airline is interested to know that you are admissible at the other end and the British passport will show that, especially if you don't have a return ticket.)

Use your Australian passport to go through exit passport control in Australia, and fill in the departure card as an Australian citizen. (Australian citizens must enter and leave Australia using an Australian passport in any case, whatever passport they may use elsewhere.)

Show your British passport as you board the plane (if you need to show a passport at this point: sometimes you do, sometimes you don't).

Use your British passport to enter the UK.

There is no problem with doing this: hundreds of people with dual citizenship do it daily and it is perfectly legitimate. if in doubt, think about the reason that the person at each step of the way is looking at your passport.

Kathryn V

Hi Adele

"How does it feel to be back in Huddersfield?" - not sure really. We have been back for almost a year now and neither my husband nor myself are sure about our move back. It really hasn't helped with the current economic situation and all the doom and gloom. My husband started a business, which really didn't stand a chance and since October he has been job hunting. Maybe once he gets a job (with a lot of luck) things will settle down for us.

We left Huddersfield for a sunnier, more relaxed Australian life, because of ill health.

We returned, because we felt it was time to come back and missed family and friends.

However, you realise that there is a different way of living and you are torn between the two places. I do not know what will happen in the long run, but we have given it a go and we have the option to return, if we so decide. We have, however, decided to give ourselves 2 years back in the UK, just as we decided to give Australia 2 years.

My advice would be go for it and make the most of your new life, for as long as that may last.

Good luck and enjoy.

Kathryn

aasmith1957

thanks so much cpw and others for your help.just in process of applying for british passport.just got to sell the house and we are sorted.