The UK has once again forgotten its citizens abroad

[Forrestttheout]

Wondering if anyone else is in the same position and feeling equally as upset by todays announcement. I cried tears of joy seeing the country I live in has finally been removed from the redlist. Only to learn the UK government is only recognising vaccines being given in a limited number of countries. I am fully vaccinated, I'm in a non red list country yet I can't go home without 10 days self isolation, I doubt many people can afford 10 days off to isolate and extra leave to actually see people. I haven't seen my family in over 2 years and this feels very much like the light at the end of the tunnel is never going to end.

Yep. I’ve had four vaccinations, and still can’t get home to see my parents without staying at home for 10 days, and I don’t have the leave to do that. It’s been two years….😰

Exactly the same here then agent , it just feels like we can't win. Can't enter the UK without an approved vaccine but how do they suggest we get an approved vaccine if we can't travel. Lots of friends here who don't work or have very flexible jobs celebrating tonight because they can head home but theirs no chance I can take off the best part of a month.

Yeah, I’m very down about it all, and feel like just packing it in here and going home.

I hope they’ll rethink this soon. I have friends who were vaccinated in Wales & it doesn’t show in England, and some who were vaccinated in the EU, so that doesn’t count either…

I hope that they’ll come up with an agreement for what vaccines are “valid” soon.

In the meantime, much like everything else under this government, it’s a half-baked scheme and you just have to hope it gets better. I really hope it does soon

I spend most of my time daydreaming about moving abroad again, it feels very much like the grass is greener, but I have no wider family to worry about and I appreciate being away from family must be hard and galling, when it’s nonsensical.

@TakeYourFinalPosition you should get your friends to recheck the Gov.uk website. The vaccine doesn't need to have been given in england all UK, Europe and US given vaccines are accepted for travel along with select other countries.
I love living here, but not being able to travel freely makes me question if its all worth it

Same here. Fucking sick of all of this. My children have never met any of their grandparents. It's very sad.

I had Sinovac abroad where I live, so completely unrecognised in UK. Didn't travel for over 18 months, saved a lot of money .

But eventually had to go with family, spending over £1000 on day 2, 5 & 8 tests for 4 people and took a month's vacation (as I hadn't used any vacation in 20 months that was possible.

After day 2 was contacted by Track & Trace and told to isolate for the full 10 days, evidently someone on the plane tested positive.

After we came out and had the rest of our holiday I found that with my NHS number I could get a vaccination in the UK, so I had a Pfizer jab. The downside is that I have to go to the UK again for the second one, but the upside is that a UK vaccination passport makes it much easier to travel after that.

The irony is that in my orange country the infection rates are much lower than the UK even during a recent peak.

The day 5 test that we didn't use (no point as we had to isolate anyway) was the same test that we needed for Fit to Fly, so we had to pay a bit extra for the faster processing but it wasn't wasted.

Yes yes I started a thread the other day about the non recognition of vaccines given outside the EU and US. Even with Az or Pfizer vaccines

@Forrestttheout Yeah sorry, I explained that badly - they can’t get Covid passes for travel or events, so they have to do LFTs, as the apps only show either the English or the Welsh jab etc, but the vaccine is “accepted”. A different issue, I suppose, but the same stupid decisions on vaccines.

I hope it’s resolved soon

My DD is on a year abroad in Mexico. She has had one U.K. vaccine as early as she could and was refused the second because she had to leave before the it was due (Scotland, and Empress Nicola knows best, had we been in England there was no problem). She can fly to the US for a second one, her father lives there, but that won’t count because you have to be fully vaccinated in one or the other country (and you have to normally live in the US but she does have a visa and an address so that’s probably OK). Our only hope is that if she gets Johnson and Johnson, which is a single shot, she might be able to come home at Christmas. It’s a shambles. Oh and Mexico needs to stop being red. I’m not sure what the logic of all this is given that Scotland has one of the highest infection rates anywhere, certainly higher than Mexico. (Although DD caught it in her first week, probably from another international student).