Timeline for I’m British passport Holder and my son has Italian ID can he enter UK ? Or he needs a valid passport?
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| Dec 1 at 15:35 | comment | added | Crazydre | @badjohn And this one by me is tangentially related travel.stackexchange.com/questions/179783/… | |
| Dec 1 at 11:45 | comment | added | badjohn | Such a question already exists (by me a couple of years ago). However, it is more about what is theoretically possible and not about what happens in practice. | |
| Dec 1 at 11:40 | comment | added | badjohn | @Crazydre This discussion could be useful. To avoid it getting lost, I'll post a question on the subject. | |
| Nov 30 at 23:19 | comment | added | Crazydre | @badjohn The tricky part is recourse if denied boarding. At any airline, the kind of department with the power to sort you isn't customer-facing, though I myself managed to establish contact with those at easyJet and Jet2.com, so I can always ask them to intervene whenever stopped. | |
| Nov 29 at 11:28 | comment | added | badjohn | @Crazydre That is what I guessed. For any planned trip, I'll bring my full passport. There might be some odd case when I need to travel urgently and I'll try it. | |
| Nov 29 at 8:28 | comment | added | Crazydre | @badjohn As for boarding a UK flight on your passport card, it would vary from one handling company to the next. | |
| Nov 29 at 8:27 | comment | added | Crazydre | @jcaron Irish passport cards are OK regardless of point of origin, but again far from all handling companies know this. And btw, the reason most handling companies deny boarding is because they think they'll receive the £2000 fine (Section 40 charge) usually levied for incorrectly documented passengers, despite the UK having made it clear they're exempt in this scenario. | |
| Nov 29 at 8:25 | comment | added | Crazydre | @badjohn It's up to date; boarding an aircraft and entering the country are totally different things in this case | |
| Nov 27 at 14:11 | comment | added | badjohn | @jcaron The page that I linked seems to say that they (we) can. "Irish citizens can continue to use a passport card to travel to the UK." without a qualification of only from Ireland. I have not tested it and I probably won't. It would be nice to know how easy it is. Since my passport card is so convenient, I carry it most of the time. So, I could hop on a plane or train to Paris without going home for my full passport. I am less sure whether I could return to the UK so easily. | |
| Nov 27 at 13:55 | comment | added | jcaron | @badjohn I know this is possible for Irish people arriving from Ireland (and possibly from elsewhere in the CTA), no idea if that works when arriving from other countries. | |
| Nov 27 at 13:54 | comment | added | badjohn | @jcaron Weird, so the UK government says that airlines should accept passengers with an EU ID card even though many will be refused entry. I am not surprised that the airlines play safe. Another significant exception (further down the same page) is that Irish can still enter with a passport card I have not tried that yet. I'd like to travel with just the card but I also want an easy life so I usually bring my full passport. | |
| Nov 27 at 12:15 | comment | added | jcaron | @badjohn The subtlety is that you cannot enter the UK with an EU ID card unless you are in the listed exceptions (one of them is not so specific, as there are probably millions of people under the EU Settlement Scheme), but airlines should allow you to fly to the UK with just an ID card, because for some of the cases one can use an EU ID card there is no physical proof of that (there's no EUSS card), so airlines can't check it. Result: you can land in the UK, be refused entry because you only have an EU ID card and are not in the exemptions. So some airlines tend to say no EU ID cards. | |
| Nov 27 at 10:49 | comment | added | Giacomo Catenazzi | I would also recommend you to contact your consular office to register your son (and you may get further information). | |
| Nov 27 at 9:28 | comment | added | badjohn | Is this up to date? This UK government page seems to say that (except for a few very specific cases) you cannot enter the UK with an EU ID card. gov.uk/guidance/visiting-the-uk-as-an-eu-eea-or-swiss-citizen | |
| Nov 27 at 9:05 | comment | added | phoog | "bring his birth certificate to show at the UK border": to establish that the child is a British citizen, the British parent will also need to show that she was born in the UK; presumably the passport will suffice for this. | |
| Nov 27 at 0:06 | history | answered | Crazydre | CC BY-SA 4.0 |