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What other passport(s) do you have?

Posted by CapitalSprinkles2242@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 16 comments

(and does that other passport hold as much value to you as your British passport?)

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Background_Gur_2571@reddit

I also have US and Irish passports. I primarily use my British one, unless using the US or Irish one expedite entry, e.g. entering the US or EU.
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AirBiscuitBarrel@reddit

I also have an Irish passport. While it is most definitely the superior passport nowadays, I still value my British one more highly, just because I am English and this country's my home. I'm not remotely Irish other than in the most boring, legal sense of the word.
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BigRedTone@reddit

I got on the register of foreign births just before my baby was born, so now my missus and two older kids will be stuck with a British passport and me and the baby will have both. We’ll be eating croissants and smoking gaulojse in our berets for hours while the rest are stuck at passport control and I’m delighted. Will probs let my uk passport expire and just keep the Irish one, despite being about as Irish as you. *Note to anyone considering trying to get one before a baby comes: they’ll rush your app through if you send a maternity certificate.*
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R_12345678910@reddit

Aren't other children entitled to it through you as "ancestral"?
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BigRedTone@reddit

There are two ways to qualify if you’re born outside Ireland. Through an Irish born parent or grandparent, or through having an Irish citizen* parent when you’re born. I qualify through a grandparent, I got my citizenship* after the first two were born, but before the third. So she qualifies but the first two are shit out of luck! *technically I’m not a citizen, but on the register of foreign births which is enough
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AirBiscuitBarrel@reddit

That makes you a citizen - by definition you need to be a citizen to have an Irish passport. The only difference is that you're a citizen by descent, rather than by birth or naturalisation, so your citizenship isn't passed down automatically to children born overseas.
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BigRedTone@reddit

Yeah my bad, getting onto the register makes me a citizen. I was getting confused along the lines you highlight - cos my other kids don’t get citizenship by virtue of my citizenship
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yopselmopsel@reddit

Also Irish, through my dad, but have the same sentiments as you.
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freebiscuit2002@reddit

UK and USA.
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Time_Pineapple4991@reddit

I am eligible for a Filipino one through my mother, although I never had it despite being born and raised in The Philippines. My parents just always ensured we had British passports since we were little, although we do have recognition of dual citizenship papers. I want to get a PH passport because my dual citizenship documents are flimsy - they’re literally 31 years old and because of some weird bureaucratic quirk I can’t get them replaced or updated. But since I moved here I’ve never been in the PH long enough to get the necessary paperwork to apply for a passport (bureaucracy there is a bit of a nightmare) I’m married to someone with Hungarian citizenship and apparently I can apply for that too after 10 years of marriage. I doubt I’ll do it though, especially since he’s planning to apply for British citizenship this year. We’re settled and very happy in Scotland and have no plans of leaving, so don’t really need the FOM perks.
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dharam_garam@reddit

Indian Overseas Passport (or Person of Indian Origin card)
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Unusual_residue@reddit

I just have my own
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Panceltic@reddit

Slovenian. It’s my first one so it has a special place in my heart!
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millyloui@reddit

Australian - it’s very handy for not having to get visas for a lot of countries
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AnalogueSurrounds@reddit

I have a British passport and an Irish passport. It definitely holds as much value, if not more right now with the freedom of movement around the EU it offers.
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