My eight-year-old was refused a UK passport
The Passport Office accepted applications for my two other children but refused the youngest with exactly the same documents
TL;DR
- Dual nationals living overseas are now required to hold a British passport to enter the UK.
- A British expat in Switzerland faced a passport application nightmare for their youngest child.
- The child's application was refused despite siblings being accepted with identical documents.
- The family has spent nearly £800 on fees, translations, and postage.
- HMPO requested antenatal records and expired passports for the youngest child's application.
- New rules have led to UK nationals being stranded abroad and families being split up.
- A "certificate of entitlement" costs £589 for those without a British passport.
- The author questions the logic of a Swiss national being able to travel to the UK more easily than a dual national child.