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by oncallthrow 113 days ago
> Silly system.

Frankly it strikes me as being rather silly to not have a British passport as a British citizen.
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dcminter 113 days ago
It costs money and my European passport is far more useful to me.
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oncallthrow 113 days ago
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.
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dcminter 113 days ago
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.

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eldaisfish 113 days ago
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.

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