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Speaker 1: Anyone who knows a brit will have been dragged into

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Speaker 1: what appears to be a bit of a travel mess.

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Speaker 1: UK rules around passports are changing. Britain will require dual

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Speaker 1: nationals to have a UK passport if you're entering the

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Speaker 1: country now. Now the cost of that's two hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty dollars, So this is a site if you've been Nevertheless,

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Speaker 1: the cost is two hundred and twenty dollars, which is

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Speaker 1: up from the previous thirty seven dollars for the yet

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Speaker 1: of visa anyway. Marcus Beverage is managing director and immigration

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Speaker 1: lawyer at Queen City Law and is back with It's Marcus.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Morning mate.

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Speaker 1: This seems to have taken on a life of its owner.

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Speaker 1: Is it just me? Every second person I'm talking to

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Speaker 1: is in paper plus photocopying off stuff for the British

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Speaker 1: Embassy these days? Are you seeing it as a thing?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I've got a couple of English neighbors who are

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Speaker 2: moaning a bit too, But I've sort of said we'll

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Speaker 2: look to get a golden visa in New Zealand. You

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Speaker 2: have to pay the New Zellian government about thirty thousand kiwi.

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Speaker 2: So you're two hundred and sixteen dollars for an adult

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Speaker 2: or one hundred and forty dollars for a kid, and

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Speaker 2: getting your passport photo photographed, sorry photocopied is not really

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Speaker 2: that big a deal and the greatest scheme of.

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Speaker 1: Things, but just for clarity's sake, what I'm getting, and

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Speaker 1: I got it from a travel agent who didn't seem

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Speaker 1: to know what the rules were, and they're suggesting all

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Speaker 1: the rumors or the urban myth is that if you're

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Speaker 1: a citizen by descent or a potential citizen by descent,

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Speaker 1: you're captured with that as well, which I understand now

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Speaker 1: not to be true.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I don't think so. I think it's only

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Speaker 2: for dual citizens, and of course the perspective is to

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Speaker 2: be a dualist British citizen, you should consider yourself privilege

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Speaker 2: given say Chinese, Koreans and Donestians or only about one citizenship,

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Speaker 2: so when they become Kiwis, they have to give up

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Speaker 2: their other citizenship. Tax attaches to Japanese, USA and Chinese

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Speaker 2: too if they hold a passport. It doesn't for poms,

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Speaker 2: but there's also considerations like land ownership, pension eligibility, medical

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Speaker 2: treatment and so on. So it's not just something about

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Speaker 2: the passport. But my advice would be, I don't complain,

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Speaker 2: just get on with it.

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Speaker 1: Right. Dual citizenship can be two things, correct me if

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Speaker 1: I'm wrong. One you're born there or two by right,

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Speaker 1: whatever reason it was, you applied and got a passport,

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Speaker 1: therefore became a citizen. But you've let that lapse, hence

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Speaker 1: the charm now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, correct, And with the British Empire and the Commonwealth,

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Speaker 2: there are a few of these characters who seem to

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Speaker 2: think they're a bit immune from the rules. But my

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Speaker 2: guess is this is really about the Five Eyes and

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Speaker 2: the UK dragging the chain and probably letting in people

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Speaker 2: that they don't really know who they are and having

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Speaker 2: to pull their socks up. That's what I think.

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Speaker 1: Sits fine, That's what That was my next question, Why

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Speaker 1: are they doing it and for what purpose? In other words,

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Speaker 1: you know, what are they gain out of this?

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Speaker 2: Well, they say they've had twenty million movements across the

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Speaker 2: border between October twenty three and September twenty five. These

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Speaker 2: are these electronic travel authorizations which are becoming increasingly common.

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Speaker 2: But it means that they just have a better idea

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Speaker 2: of who's actually crossing the border. All that stuff has

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Speaker 2: biometric and biographic and contact details, questions about suitability and criminality.

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Speaker 2: So I guess they're just pulling their socks up into

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Speaker 2: of security.

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Speaker 1: And so the trauma that's come out of this is

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming for people who are traveling and the administration

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Speaker 1: of doing it, and therefore they're a bit backed up

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Speaker 1: and therefore there might be delays, hence the Yanks. So

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Speaker 1: that's all we're really dealing with. I guess, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Well, it becomes effective on the twenty fifth, fifth of February,

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Speaker 2: so it's not far away. And if you're some old

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Speaker 2: geezer it can't be bothered. Then you may be getting

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Speaker 2: the rubbid glove treatment and a bit more when you

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Speaker 2: cross the border. So I mean, like, get your act

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Speaker 2: together and get that photocopy, photocopy that passport's center, it

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Speaker 2: down to the Hay Commission and get it done.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Marcus. Appreciate you TI very much. If you

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Speaker 1: if you're some old geezer, you might get a bit

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Speaker 1: of the rubber glove.

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