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WSTiger said:
For all you expats on here with citizenship in another country and having British Citizenship (with no or an expired passport) some may not be aware, like I was until recently, that you may be denied boarding when flying to the UK when you turn up at your departing airport with your countries passport (in my case USA) . So you may have booked your hols at With for the season (or even posher Hornsea) or more importantly booked your seat at the playoff final to see City gloriously go back into the premier league and not be able to go. Thats as of this month. Option is to renew your British passport (best and cheapest) or get a "Certificate of Entitlement" 589 quid. You are more likely to be denied boarding if you have some sort of record in the UK i.e. National Insurance Record, British Pensioner, Service in the Armed forces, Life Long Hull City Supporter etc.
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What are the circumstances when a British Citizen would refuse to get a British passport and choose to stump up an extra 500 quid in order to avoid it, I wonder?
 
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Ernie Shackleton said:
What are the circumstances when a British Citizen would refuse to get a British passport and choose to stump up an extra 500 quid in order to avoid it, I wonder?
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Thats a good ? I have no idea. For the record I intend to renew mine, my wife has been pushing me for years to renew ours. But I am loathe to do it since it means travelling with 4 passports in my wallet. And when i go to France the lovely people over there insist in taking them from me and making me go to the local American consulate to get new ones (twice on one vacation within 4 days of each other which surely must be some sort of record!)
 
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Ernie Shackleton said:
What are the circumstances when a British Citizen would refuse to get a British passport and choose to stump up an extra 500 quid in order to avoid it, I wonder?
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I think the certificate is quicker. If an 'offending' person is overseas on holiday and has to come back to UK now for work they'd be a bit buggered waiting ages for a new passport.
I read about this yesterday, seems the info has been available for a year or so but for some reason it's only just surfaced. It sounds like a Home Office badly implemented and badly publicised scheme to me.
 
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WSTiger said:
For all you expats on here with citizenship in another country and having British Citizenship (with no or an expired passport) some may not be aware, like I was until recently, that you may be denied boarding when flying to the UK when you turn up at your departing airport with your countries passport (in my case USA) . So you may have booked your hols at With for the season (or even posher Hornsea) or more importantly booked your seat at the playoff final to see City gloriously go back into the premier league and not be able to go. Thats as of this month. Option is to renew your British passport (best and cheapest) or get a "Certificate of Entitlement" 589 quid. You are more likely to be denied boarding if you have some sort of record in the UK i.e. National Insurance Record, British Pensioner, Service in the Armed forces, Life Long Hull City Supporter etc.
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I really thought that was always the case, if dual national and overseas and want to enter the UK you need a valid UK passport OR travel with your other nation passport and meet all visa requirements for that nation.
 
We’ve just returned from a Nile cruise. It was absolutely majestic. Just meandering down the river, normally with a cocktail in hand watching the local fisherman and farmers going about what they do. Then berthing in the chaos of Luxor on one side of the boat but then the peacefulness of the Nile the other side, with Feluccas floating around. I am not a history buff at all, but became quite emotional visiting Tutankanum’s tomb and also others which because they had more time to plan and build (Tut died aged 19, so was a rush job) were far more spectacular. These are
4/5000 years old, all beautifully preserved by the desert sand. Then the incredible temples beautifully preserved from a similar time.
Overall, just beautiful.
That has to be up there as one of the ‘must visit at least once’ to everyone.
 
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Came back to miserable winter weather so booked some winter sun to Agadir, Morocco in November.
We do want to do another river cruise (really did not enjoy the sea cruise) so looking at Mekong river (Vietnam/cambodia) this time next year. However, we did look at a brochure and do like the look of India.. golden triangle and Goa. Any thoughts on either?
 
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askewshair said:
We’ve just returned from a Nile cruise. It was absolutely majestic. Just meandering down the river, normally with a cocktail in hand watching the local fisherman and farmers going about what they do. Then berthing in the chaos of Luxor on one side of the boat but then the peacefulness of the Feluccas Nile the other side.
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Two Nile cruises is extravagant.
 
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askewshair said:
Came back to miserable winter weather so booked some winter sun to Agadir, Morocco in November.
We do want to do another river cruise (really did not enjoy the sea cruise) so looking at Mekong river (Vietnam/cambodia) this time next year. However, we did look at a brochure and do like the look of India.. golden triangle and Goa. Any thoughts on either?
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We went to India and Nepal last year; Amritsar, Agra, Lucknow, Varanasi, Delhi, Kathmandu, The Himalayas. Absolutely amazing, fascinating and mental. Three weeks - really full on but a great experience.

We're planning to go to Vietnam and/or Cambodia & Laos later this year or early next.
 
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Ernie Shackleton said:
We went to India and Nepal last year; Amritsar, Agra, Lucknow, Varanasi, Delhi, Kathmandu, The Himalayas. Absolutely amazing, fascinating and mental. Three weeks - really full on but a great experience.

We're planning to go to Vietnam and/or Cambodia & Laos later this year or early next.
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When you get to Vietnam, stay away from revolvers. <yikes> :emoticon-0145-shake:emoticon-0145-shake
 
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I'm thinking of booking Egypt for next year but the missus has been put off by stuff she's heard about Hurghada airport.

Has anyone on here had any experience of it?
 
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