Dual citizens with expired passports

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Don’t know if there is a thread on this already so happy to join an existing one if that is the case.
Posting in Aibu for traffic. Don’t care if iabu or not. I just need to fly to the UK next week and UK passport is expired.
I could fly almost anywhere in the world on my eu passport so it is ironic I am technically locked out of my country of origin but that’s where I have a work meeting spontaneously scheduled for next week. I would literally fly in the morning and out on the evening.

Anyone else in a similar position?

Apparently these airlines are accepting expired passports:

British Airways
easyJet
Lufthansa
Singapore Airlines
United
Virgin Atlantic

Anyone actually had success with this yet? Or works with the airlines and can confirm passengers will be allowed to travel?

You don't have to. It's something that shows up on the list online when you apply but you don't actually have to. My son's other grandparents are French and I just added a letter of explanation in lieu of their birth certificates when applying for his passport and we were still issued the passport with no trouble.

Just carry a copy of your marriage certificate with your passports. I always do this, just in case (French passports don't record last names in the same way that British ones do) and it's never been an issue. People are always able to join the dots.

You believed one person whinging?

I know. My children have those too.
But if they allow it for that type of birth certificate (which does prove citizenship) they then have to allow it for every other type of British birth certificate (which does not prove citizenship). Cue an unholy mess. It's easier for them not to allow it as a form of proof so I can understand why they don't.

You don't need GRO numbers. Just the information about the people you need certificates for (names and dates of birth; ideally places of birth too).
You can't get a photo with a digital code for British passport applications overseas. Just go to a photo place that specialises in ID photos and get them to take it (they will know the photo requirements for British passports, e.g. what colour background is needed).
I agree that getting the photo uploaded to the website is the trickiest part. Unless said photo place supplies you with the digital copy, you need to take a photo of the photo yourself and then upload it to the Passport Office website. It took me about 4 goes because it doesn't like it if you take it in a place that uses non-natural lighting. I had to go into a room with lots of natural daylight/sunlight before I could take a digital photo of my physical passport photo that the website would accept.
It is solvable/doable but you need to think more laterally.

When getting my British passport a few weeks ago I just sent a colour copy of every page of my EU passport and they accepted this?

Not so in this case. The new rules state that the names on the (expired) passport must be identical.

Thank you, that's a relief to know. Going to try and deal with this all this weekend.

Thank you, I’ll go and chat to the local photographer and see if he can give me a digital copy.

I’ll try again. The whole process gives me the willies.

As long as DS can get in and out on his Italian passport because he’s not offically registered anywhere as British there’s less pressure on me to sort my passport out. I took him to the consulate in Milan when he was a newborn to check, and they said I didn’t need to do anything, but this was back in 2000.

Is the other parent us a non UK citizen they could go through manual check with them

Yeah I have British/NZ passports. Always has to use the NZ one to enter there

He will need an ETA on his EU passport and I believe the ETA application asks about dual nationality.

And in another brilliant twist: went to a copy shop here in Germany to get DC expired UK passport copied. It's not allowed...

You’d start at your nearest consulate or embassy. They can also issue you with a new passport. I’m not sure why this isn’t first port of call for op.

You can't get a photo with a digital code for British passport applications overseas

You can in Germany. DH did. My photo on my phone was fine for mine. As was the photocopy I did on my printer of my German passport. Used the same printer for his and... rejected. It makes no sense and depends entirely on the mood of whoever is checking

British Embassies/Consulates are no longer involved with Passport renewal, haven't been for years.

I took my own selfie for ID photo. It was fine ( took a few trial runs, & chose the best)

Overseas passport production stopped in August 2011.

@AgentJohnson yes your daughter can have both British and Dutch. I live in the Netherlands and my children have British and Italian passports through me and Dutch passports the other father. So three passports whereas I only have two.
the downside is that it is expensive to renew them. The Italian ones are the most expensive to renew. Thankfully,the expiry dates overlap so we always have a valid passport.

Just because you've clearly never run into hurdles with this doesn't mean it's
not an issue. A friend of mine had to send an official letter from the Registry Office of the EU country she's from, stating that her names could not match her UK names due to local laws. They eventually issued her a passport after 6 weeks of waiting, including an official "observation" about this in the notes section.

On the one hand I completely agree with you, but where I don't agree is-

If you don't want or can't afford to pay for a British passport or Certificate of Entitlement for your kids, and also can't afford to pay £500 to renounce British Citizenship (which you can't do until you're 18 anyway), I do believe there should be a cheap and easy way to just go on holiday to Britain like you can as an EU Citizen. I really don't believe it's fair to lock Brits out of Britain while they go through what can in some case be months of expensive bureaucracy.

What?? How are you supposed to copy it then??
Its alright for me, I still have a key for my old workplace that has a colour photocopier so I can just pop in after work and copy myself.

I think it’s all a mess but it costs around £12 a year per person to have a British passport, I don’t know why you just wouldn’t do it. Had this always been the rule then no one would object to it, it’s just because it’s new that it seems ridiculous. I have never thought twice about having to use my US passport to leave or enter the country, even when I wasn’t resident there, because that’s how it’s always been.

If you’re entitled to British (or any other country’s) citizenship, why would you not claim it?

The Italian passport holder will now need to apply for an eta before travelling to the uk. You can’t just rock up anymore. I don’t know what questions are asked on the eta, but presumably there are questions about whether you/your parents are British and so you would need to lie on the eta in order to get one.

To be fair, I've seen it reported in mainstream news for the last month or so, almost every couple of days