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UK Passport Office Approves Two Children's British Passport Applications but Rejects Third
A British national living in Switzerland said her youngest child's passport application was refused after more than three months of processing. The two older siblings' applications were accepted under the same documents.
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A British national living in Unterseen, Switzerland, reported that HM Passport Office refused her youngest child's British passport application while approving the two older siblings' requests. The Guardian reported that the family learned of new rules, effective 25 February, requiring dual nationals overseas to hold British passports for UK entry and submitted applications for all three children, who are British and Swiss nationals.
The parent stated that the process took more than three months and cost close to £800 in fees, translations, and postage.
Documents supplied included three birth certificates for each child along with certified translations. The two older applications succeeded on those materials, but the youngest was rejected. HM Passport Office requested antenatal records from the child's birth eight years earlier and the parents' passports valid at the time of conception.
Those passports have since expired and been replaced, the parent said. The family plans to visit the children's grandmother in England in July. Under the rules, a certificate of entitlement for UK entry without a British passport costs £589.
A Swiss national can enter with a Swiss passport and a £16 electronic travel authorisation.
