British Expats - yep it's already started!

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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)

- The Trailer Park (https://britishexpats.com/forum/trailer-park-96/)

- - yep it's already started! (https://britishexpats.com/forum/trailer-park-96/yep-its-already-started-890475/)

Giantaxe

Jan 31st 2017 8:41 am

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Originally Posted by mrken30 (Post 12167091)

A UK passport is around $250 from what I remember.

About $130 at the current exchange rate.

SultanOfSwing

Jan 31st 2017 9:28 am

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Originally Posted by london_calling (Post 12167073)

That 47% of the voting public wanted at the helm. Just like they did Bush, Reagan etc.

No, it was 47% of 55% of the electorate, or just under 26% of the 'voting public'. Never mind that the orange twat lost the popular vote by 3 million.

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Originally Posted by london_calling (Post 12167073)

Can we please just accept the USA for what it is, rather than the enlightened society people on here want it to be?

Not all of us are statist robots who delight at the rise of populist nationalism and authoritarian rule. If people didn't strive to make society better, we'd all still be shoveling shit in workhouses and sending 10 year olds up chimney flues.

But appeasement worked wonders for Chamberlain, so by all means, you do you.

dc koop

Jan 31st 2017 10:44 am

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Originally Posted by Giantaxe (Post 12167095)

. Additionally, I feel - a little - more comfortable travelling around the world on a UK passport than a US one, a feeling that might be heightened in the age of Trump.

Unless you were in Kenya and ran into an old decrepit, half mad Mau Mau fighter who still carries a hatchet in his belt :lol:

dc koop

Jan 31st 2017 10:54 am

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Originally Posted by Rete (Post 12167069)

And its good for 10 years. $11 a year for a passport is pissed away on crap Starbucks coffee twice a week.

I wasn't complaining at the cost. It's quite reasonable

silvermine

Jan 31st 2017 1:47 pm

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Originally Posted by mrken30 (Post 12166980)

I probably won't renew my British passport once it expires. I am not sure how easy it will be to get a new passport after I don't renew.

think it may be 5 years but not sure... anyone know?

Jerseygirl

Jan 31st 2017 2:16 pm

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Originally Posted by silvermine (Post 12167247)

think it may be 5 years but not sure... anyone know?

10 years. Before 10 years...it's a simple renewal...after that time it's treated as a new application.

hungryhorace

Feb 1st 2017 3:05 am

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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 12167047)

I could have sworn I read that somewhere. I must have been thinking of the situation dc koop described, then.

It's more a case that if you are a citizen of the country that you are under current jurisdiction in (ie, a USC living in the United States or her territories) the consular to which you are a citizen would be limited in what help it could provide.

This is a good example:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ry-confinement

The UK government is being asked to intervene, but she's an Iranian citizen, being dealt with under Iranian jurisdiction, there's not much the UK government can do.

SultanOfSwing

Feb 1st 2017 3:07 am

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Originally Posted by hungryhorace (Post 12167783)

That's probably more like it and I was just remembering it wrong.

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