NextStopTahiti
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Does anyone have experience of formalities for arriving back in the UK with a crew member with UK citizenship but travelling on a non UK passport. (Because of the endless delays at UK passport office renewing passports)?
Re-entering UK
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Bajansailor
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I have done this, but arriving by air, not by sea, and this was back in 2014, long before Brexit happened.
I was in the same situation as what you describe above - I had been told that it would take 4 weeks to renew my UK passport, and 3 months later, I still had not received it, and I was travelling the next day.....
I did not have the old one with me (as I had to send it back to get the new one), but I did have a colour photocopy of the details of my old (now expired) passport - I showed this to the lady at Gatwick Immigration (along with my non UK passport), and explained the situation, and she was perfectly happy with it.
I realise though that Brexit might have changed things somewhat since then.
I was in the same situation as what you describe above - I had been told that it would take 4 weeks to renew my UK passport, and 3 months later, I still had not received it, and I was travelling the next day.....
I did not have the old one with me (as I had to send it back to get the new one), but I did have a colour photocopy of the details of my old (now expired) passport - I showed this to the lady at Gatwick Immigration (along with my non UK passport), and explained the situation, and she was perfectly happy with it.
I realise though that Brexit might have changed things somewhat since then.
NextStopTahiti
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Many thanks for that. With changes in rules on both sides of the Channel I'm trying to to keep my bureaucratic encounters as straightforward as possible!
st599
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From HMRC Notice on sailing in to the UK
Anyone on board who is not a British or Irish citizen must get a Border Force officer’s permission to enter the UK from a place other than the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands.
You must make sure any of your crew or passengers that need immigration clearance gets permission to enter before disembarking.
So they should be allowed in but may need a call to Border Force as their passport non-UK presumably doesn't prove they're British or Irish.
Anyone on board who is not a British or Irish citizen must get a Border Force officer’s permission to enter the UK from a place other than the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands.
You must make sure any of your crew or passengers that need immigration clearance gets permission to enter before disembarking.
So they should be allowed in but may need a call to Border Force as their passport non-UK presumably doesn't prove they're British or Irish.
KeelsonGraham
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The C1331 allows you to enter details for non UK passports. Presumably, when you email it off to them, someone from Customs will arrive to meet the boat.
Stingo
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Ask him if his non-uk passport has Right of Abode stamped in it, like my non-UK passport has
awol
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Can't you just send them ashore in a rubber dinghy?
st599
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I think you have to ring National Yachtline, who put you through to Border Force to ask permission.