What Happens On Arrival When Moving Back To The UK?
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What Happens On Arrival When Moving Back To The UK?
This is probably a basic questions that may have been posted before, so sorry for that in advance.
When moving back to the UK what do you do at immigration? Just join the queue for passport control and then explain your situation or do you have to make arrangements with immigration in advance to tell that that you're moving back?
Thanks in advance
When moving back to the UK what do you do at immigration? Just join the queue for passport control and then explain your situation or do you have to make arrangements with immigration in advance to tell that that you're moving back?
Thanks in advance
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Re: What Happens On Arrival When Moving Back To The UK?
This is probably a basic questions that may have been posted before, so sorry for that in advance.
When moving back to the UK what do you do at immigration? Just join the queue for passport control and then explain your situation or do you have to make arrangements with immigration in advance to tell that that you're moving back?
Thanks in advance
When moving back to the UK what do you do at immigration? Just join the queue for passport control and then explain your situation or do you have to make arrangements with immigration in advance to tell that that you're moving back?
Thanks in advance
#3
Re: What Happens On Arrival When Moving Back To The UK?
You walk thorough passport control; and they look at your passport and say Welcome home. Well they have each time I go back, it makes me smile and also well up with a few tears.
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Just moved back after 30 years away and nobody said nowt.
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Re: What Happens On Arrival When Moving Back To The UK?
I know exactly how you feel. When I went back in September just for a holiday, there was an enormously long queue for non -UK passport holders and no queue for UK citizens. So I asked the passport control person if I could use my British passport to enter, even though I had travelled on my Canadian one. He gave me big smile and said "Course you can my love, Welcome Home!!" I almost burst into tears right there and then....must have been the jetlag
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I know exactly how you feel. When I went back in September just for a holiday, there was an enormously long queue for non -UK passport holders and no queue for UK citizens. So I asked the passport control person if I could use my British passport to enter, even though I had travelled on my Canadian one. He gave me big smile and said "Course you can my love, Welcome Home!!" I almost burst into tears right there and then....must have been the jetlag
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I always use my UK passport to enter the UK regardless of the fact that I have to use my US one to leave the States. It makes it so much easier as the line for UK is always shorter - same coming back to the US - the line for US citizens is always shorter. I just wish the baggage would come up quicker as that is always the painful wait for me
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Can't imagine why. My daughter does it all the time, leaves South Africa on her SA passport - legal requirement if you have dual nationality - and enters the UK on her British one. How would they know, and why would they want to?
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But going through immigration, I don't think they have any way of knowing. They're just checking your passport to see that it's valid and that you realy are a citizen.
So we always use the same passport both ways for the airline, but then go through immigration with the passport of the country we just arrived in.
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That's exactly what I do - when returning to the US I use my US passport as that is what the airlines want but on the entry to the UK through immigration I use my UK passport
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I wouldn't mind being greeted like this when landing back home:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB3NPNM4xgo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB3NPNM4xgo