Yea well living here I'm thinking (say what you want) if the old subscription kicks in I might be handy to be a foreigner.
I'll be too old in a few years anyway.
So I need a British passport to come to London for Xmas?
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Yea well living here I'm thinking (say what you want) if the old subscription kicks in I might be handy to be a foreigner.
I'll be too old in a few years anyway.
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I had my Polish passport since I was a child. It was of absolutely no use until 5 years ago. Never a bad thing to have.
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No better reason to work towards French Citizenship for me.From December you even get a new passport with the Kings crest on it.
It's £482 to renounce citizenship currently. Although I have no idea why you would.
You don't even need to do that. You don't need an in-date passport to enter the UK as a UK citizen, in fact you don't need anything at all -- although proving you're a citizen becomes difficult in that case. On the other hand, if you renounce it, then on top of that cost above you'd also need to pay (currently) £16 every two years for an ETA if you want to come to the UK.
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The only thing I would do, if you enter the UK with your Swedish passport, you leave with it to, for the stamp. I know you have the right to stay here permanently but that just saves the potential issue of some idiot thinking you overstayed your 90-day allowance on the Swedish passport.
It's off season now... I wouldn't trust trying that in June/July
The UK doesn't stamp EU passports on entry (although I presume there's a log kept since it's an e-passport) and doesn't do exit controls.
Well now I don't have too.
It doesn't seem to stamp NZ passports either. We entered the UK 3 times this year on our NZ passports, and I swear I have just one stamp. I remember the immigration official asking us in Paris whether we want a stamp or not. Not sure why he would do that or why I would care, but I remember him asking.
Look into the state pension and national insurance contributions as per another thread on this front page and see if you think re-starting your contributions is worth it. I think you'll find it probably is.
I left in 2006 and never gave it a second thought but looking at some old paperwork for another reason has brought me round.
Agree with renouncing it though, barmy idea that especially as you have to pay.
Some people like having the stamps as a bit of a souvenir.
That's not quite correct. You don't need (and can't get) an ETA if you're a British citizen but the UK hasn't had birthright citizenship since Jan 1st 1983 so you can be born in the UK and not be a citizen (or have any other kind of leave to remain).