Coming from Australia travel rules

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Hi

My friend's dad is in English hospital with covid. My friend is in Australia (joint citizenship), he hasn't had a jab, can anybody explain the rules? Would he need to quarantine? Can he visit his dad without quarantine? Just thinking whether he should consider traveling now in case his dad gets worse.

www.gov.uk/guidance/red-amber-and-green-list-rules-for-entering-england
Australia is currently on the green list so they wouldn't need to isolate on arrival, just have a negative pcR test i think. However, covid is rife in the UK so I wouldn't attempt coming unless I was double vaccinated first.

I'd be more concerned about getting home again to Australia- hotel quarantine is very expensive and that assumes you can find a flight. Bil and Sil came over in July 2020 for a funeral and had return flight booked but got cancelled and had to wait 2 months here before being able to get on another flight. There are thousands of Australian nationals around the world still trying to get flights home.

They could probably get here fairly easily but I doubt they would be able to go back quite so easily.

If they were to come then they would need to make sure they had somewhere to stay potentially long term really.

Thank you everyone that is really helpful

There are thousands of Australian nationals around the world still trying to get flights home

but Caitlyn Jenner, Neil Patrick Harris and maybe even Katie Hopkins can get in easily...

I think getting back to Oz will be the far bigger challenge as I believe there is a big crackdown on quarantine places and flights in atm. Not sure if Australia requires entrants to be vaccinated - if he's australian then hopefully that could not be too much of an issue

Given how rife covid is here though I think at least one vaccine would be an extremely good idea.

Australia has recently cut arrival caps again for international flights. Sydney and all of Victoria are in lockdown with only essential retail and medical allowed to be open.

They won’t get back in for ages.

Sadly there are a load of hoops to jump through to LEAVE the country - there's an application that has to be completed and approved - with the governments aim of having the applicant leaving the country and not returning within three months (ie, anecdotal and news stories of applications only being approval if evidence of job in another in another country being shown, or house being sold - or applicants being declined for wanting to attend weddings, visit sick relatives etc).

More details: covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/leaving-australia

Plus you must also be vaccinated, which is probably the easiest part

When my dad was diagnosed with end stage cancer last November my sister looked into getting back to be with dad for his last few weeks. She had to provide the authorities with the following...1..her birth certificate (she was born in Australia during my dad's work posting),..2..mum and Dad's wedding certificate...3 Mum's death certificate ( part of the reason my sister needed to be here was mum died at the end of March 2020 and my sister was unable to fly over for the funeral due to lockdown restrictions), and 4...a copy of the diagnoses signed by dad's consultant specifying dad's cancer and his prognosis.

I think the biggest problem will be the hospital letter as, unless it states that your friend's dad is going to die soon, permission will probably not be granted as it will not be deemed a "special circumstance". My sister was told that it was only due to the fact she had already lost one parent just a few months previously, that she was able to leave. Had mum still been alive the chances are permission would have been refused.

However, like I said, that was back in November so it may all be different now.