Talking with my sis about passports - apparently if you get a new British passport after October you need to apply for a Visa to enter the USA which costs 67 quid and requires a trip to the consulate to get it, plus be fingerprinted on the way in. Dylan's passport expires soon so I have no idea how we're supposed to renew that and get the necessary documentation. The baby of course will have no problems being Canadian (!).
Posted by katie at January 19, 2004 09:16 AMGet it renewed before October :)
Posted by: Aka at January 19, 2004 04:03 PMOh and she might have forgotten to tell you the funniest bit, although the US will *require* this new stuff from October, the UK won't have the machinery in place to issue the new passports before mid-2005.
All together now... ignorant paranoid pencil-pushing bureaucratic morons ;)
Posted by: Aka at January 19, 2004 04:04 PMwhat a nightmare!! Time to find out how to renew British passports while living in Canada! Suppose I should also find out how to get passports / documentation for a Canadian baby when you're British in Canada!
Posted by: Katie at January 19, 2004 04:06 PMMore info on Brits going to the US: http://www.ukpa.gov.uk/news/news.asp?intElement=695
Contact the British High Commission in Ottawa; they have all the forms you need. This is how we deal with renewing our British passports from here. See http://www.britainincanada.org/ for more info and PDFs of the paperwork; they will also be able to tell you the hoops you'll have to jump through to establish a claim to British citizenship for a Canadian-born kid.
Posted by: Steve at January 19, 2004 10:02 PM