[noroot]

My wife moved to Belgium for me 8 years ago and also has dual citizenship. She assumed it would be fine to travel on Belgium passport + ETA but that's not allowed.

She also had to go through a very expensive process to renew her British passport last minute.

Silly system.

[dcminter]

My native-Swedish friends all complain about the bureaucracy here, but it is so much more efficient than the British stuff.

Some of that, though, is a side-effect of the ubiquitous "Bank ID" identity tool - which suffers from the same dependency on Apple/Google that the article complains about. Given the current political climate I think the EU is going to have to figure something out to address this sort of thing.

[oncallthrow]

> Silly system.

Frankly it strikes me as being rather silly to not have a British passport as a British citizen.

[dcminter]

It costs money and my European passport is far more useful to me.

[oncallthrow]

The cost of a passport is negligible (~£10 per year on average), and it’s not reasonable to expect the UK to spend a lot of money architecting the system around a very small minority of dual citizens who don’t have passports.

[dcminter]

Why should any special architecting be required given that I am an EU citizen with an EU passport. On the contrary, effort was expended to prevent me from obtaining an ETA to no purpose that has ever been justified.

Yes, I personally am not deeply inconvenienced by this, but that doesn't make it ok. Others are on much tighter budgets than me.

[eldaisfish]

then relinquish your citizenship.

If obtaining a passport from a country where you are a citizen is such a hassle for you, you must focus on the only logical solution.