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Because you can't say that Spain is that much of a rip off, when they have such great weather, beaches, climate, cheese and €20 passports. Britain is much more of a rip-off compared to all that.
If you live there and have to buy groceries, furniture, and electrical products, put up with carp customer service, pay endless taxes and charges and deal with never-ending complicated bureaucracy, then you will realise that it is no longer the cheap place it once was, nor the tax heven some people think it is.
And try being unemployed, there is nowhere near the help that there is in the UK. No Housing Benefit. And contrary to popular opinion, being broke in the sun is no more pleasant than being broke elsewhere. You cant live on a beach and only eat cheese and drink wine.
I enjoyed my years of living in Spain, but have never been starry-eyed about it ot hated my own country. There is good and bad everywhere. Of course there are some things that are cheaper in Spain (like passports), and actually I don't really think Spain IS a rip-off, but I get quite annoyed when people think the UK is the rip-off capital of Europe. It most certainly isn't.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
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lil.smartie wrote: »Yes, she MUST travel to the US on a US passport & to the UK on a UK one!
Kate
Only the US has this requirement.0 -
While we talk about passport costs -
Mine costs 140PLN - or about 30 pounds. It's exactly the same as a British passport, and I can apply for it locally (no need to travel to some far-off place - each city of any size has an office). It's as secure as a British one, it does the same as a British one - so - how on earth can the British one be justified at the price?
Of course, the truth is that the British Embassy network has been massively secured at immense cost (I seem to recall the one in Warsaw cost around 40 million pounds and is lavishly equipped!) - along with being staffed by people on British, not local salaries. That's what costs the big bucks, not the book itself.
It's very much "jobs for the boys" where Britain is concerned, and nothing to do with security.
(as for a child's passport - 30PLN (6.50 pounds) if the child is under 7, and 60PLN (13 pounds) if the child is over 7).
Sorry Brits, but your government is fleecing you in order to provide jobs for the old boys. If we, along with many other EU countries can do it cheaply, why can't you?From Poland...with love.
They are (they're) sitting on the floor.
Their books are lying on the floor.
The books are sitting just there on the floor.0 -
Only the US has this requirement.
She was born in the US, when we brought her home we were told she needed to get a UK passport or she'd be considered an illegal immigrant as she was only permitted entry on that passport for 2 months, even with her birth certificate etc & traveling with both parets (myself & my husband) & our UK passports!
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lil.smartie wrote: »She was born in the US, when we brought her home we were told she needed to get a UK passport or she'd be considered an illegal immigrant as she was only permitted entry on that passport for 2 months, even with her birth certificate etc & traveling with both parets (myself & my husband) & our UK passports!
Kate
What garbage.
The possession (or not) of a UK passport doesn't make one jot of difference - she will have automatically acquired British citizenship from the parents.From Poland...with love.
They are (they're) sitting on the floor.
Their books are lying on the floor.
The books are sitting just there on the floor.0 -
lil.smartie wrote: »She was born in the US, when we brought her home we were told she needed to get a UK passport or she'd be considered an illegal immigrant as she was only permitted entry on that passport for 2 months, even with her birth certificate etc & traveling with both parets (myself & my husband) & our UK passports!
Kate
To echo PBS, a passport is merely a travel document. Possession or non-possession of a passport does not in any way affect a person's nationality.
Your daughter is a British citizen by descent (I'm assuming here that you or the child's other parent was British at the time of your daughter's birth) and so is entitled to reside in the UK unconditionally.
That said, your daughter will need to satisfy the UKBA, upon every entry to the UK from outside the Common Travel Area, that she is indeed a British citizen. Possession of a British passport is the most obvious method, but it is not the only one. For example, it is possible to obtain a Right of Abode endorsement, from the UKBA upon application and payment of a fee, which would be entered in to your daughter's US passport.0 -
And that would need renewing every 5yrs along with the US passport so no better off really! The embassy advice was 2 passports was the easiest option.
Kate0
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