[xnorswap]

Most countries require their own dual-nationality citizens to enter on their local passports not foreign ones, Britain was an exception before. It's not unreasonable to ask for the British passport, and I say this as someone affected.

[dcminter]

> It's not unreasonable to ask for the British passport

Why? What legitimate purpose does this serve?

[StopDisinfo910]

Keeping track of which of your citizens are outside of the country. Ensuring the state knows you are a citizen and should be treated as such.

France had a weird issue recently about the media talking for ages about someone who committed a crime while the state had asked for him to be deported months before on the basis of his foreign passport and it took weeks for someone to finally notice that the guy was actually French. It made the police looks clownish.

[dcminter]

That's your guess. The UK authorities have never given this reason.

[StopDisinfo910]

You were asking for legitimate purposes. That's some of them.

[dcminter]

I asked for the purpose. You guessed at the purpose. those are different.

[varispeed]

Counting the sheep in the herd.

[dcminter]

Even if one takes this as legitimate, the "foreign" passport gives enough information already (otherwise they couldn't prevent me from acquiring an ETA with it).

[RobotToaster]

I've read the issue is that some countries require you to renounce your previous nationality to get citizenship, and people have taken advantage of not needing a British passport by lying about renouncing their British citizenship.

I've seen claims this technique was actually recommended by the British consulate, no idea if that's true.

[leejo]

> I've read the issue is that some countries require you to renounce your previous nationality to get citizenship, and people have taken advantage of not needing a British passport by lying about renouncing their British citizenship.

Oh that's an interesting little loophole that might be a[nother] reason. A handful of EU member states disallow dual citizenship, so those taking advantage of "EU and British" might be impacted by this.

[RobotToaster]

Found the article, it was Spain specifically that requires it https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/13/dual-nation...

[gertrunde]

ok, did not know that, every day is a school day!

[belfthrow]

But hey the sensationalist comment you originally posted gets your lots of upvotes…