[foolsgold99]

Ok, it's a little bit away, but someone must have come across this as an issue before now. Here's the situation

Me & Sal are planing a trip to the UK in August next year. We have PR, and RRVs and will travel on our UK passports, no problems. We'll have a child by then.

The child will be born in NZ, and have dual nationality, and be entitled to both passports.

If we get him a British passport, we go to the UK, enter the via the EU citizens channel, no worries. What happens two weeks later when we come back to Auckland, we're ok, but junior will be traveling in a UK passport, and doesn't have a visa. Will they let him back in (they've got to because he's a citizen, but he has no passport to prove it)

Option two, we get him a kiwi passport, no problems getting back in, but what happens at LHR, we can't send a nine month old baby to the "other countries" passport queue.

Do we need to get two passports for him ? Surely not.

Someone must have been in NZ with PR, and kids born there. What did you do ??

[kiwidebs]

Why not get both passports? My two have both! Just a thought. Then, you leave and enter NZ on the NZ passport and enter and leave the UK on the UK one! The other thing is just to take Junior through the UK passport queue with his/her NZ passport - they wouldn't expect him/her to go through the other on their own.
Just a little story to illustrate my point - we took Gemma home to meet my family when she was 9 months old. She and hubby travelled on British passports and I travelled on my NZ passport - all good! Got to NZ and found they have a place for families to queue so the mixed passport types was not an issue. Got back to the UK at the beg of September - all the foreign students were coming in and having documents inspected with a fine tooth comb. Mark and Gemma head off through the EU passport queue whilst I join the riff raff in the 'others' queue. Well, an hour or so later I'm about two-thirds of the way there and can see Mark at the other side of passport control, with our luggage and Gemma....I'm getting really upset (remember I haven't slept for a very long time as Gemma only wanted Mummy for the whole flight from Singapore to London and didn't sleep) when a woman comes up to me and says 'Are you Mrs Bailey' I probably look startled (?) but reply 'yes' - then got taken straight through to a passport person who just quickly checks me through and says 'you should've gone through the EU passport queue with your family - you might have to wait till all EU passport holders are through but it would be quicker!!'. So, you do the right thing and???

Hope this helps
Debs

[jubjub]

Thanks Debs, we thought getting into UK would be the bigger issue with mixed passports, so probably will end up getting both, its not as if we are going to be short of time and need them in a hurry.

Think I read somewhere kiwi one takes about 10 days, UK one takes weeks!

[kiwidebs]

Hi Guys

I haven't got the kids passports in NZ yet (I'll have that joy in a few years time) - but I recently got Cameron his UK and his NZ passports here in the UK and both took about two weeks each.
You're not travelling till your little one is a few months old so you'll have time. I assume you apply at the British Embassy/consulate (or whatever it is) in NZ rather than sending to the UK?

Debs

[jubjub]

Think we need to send it to Consulate in Welly for the UK one, from what I have seen. Paperwork is quite a lot though, and you need to send notarised copies of stuff, so it could get pricey! But will be worth the hassle it saves at the other end!

[markyspark]

we needed some papers sighed by a notary, we went C.A.B and the justice of the peace signed the for free

[annaerb]

Think we need to send it to Consulate in Welly for the UK one, from what I have seen. Paperwork is quite a lot though, and you need to send notarised copies of stuff, so it could get pricey! But will be worth the hassle it saves at the other end!


I had to get passports/birth cert notarised and I found one in Howick just down the road from Howick College. He charged me $50 and I got about 6 copies done.

Carol

[jubjub]

Carol, that's not too bad for several copies, need to remember that, don't suppose you can remember the company, as its only just down the road!

Marky, did you get yours notarised in UK or NZ?

[annaerb]

I'll see if I can find it for you.

Carol.