By bizn_fun 
Petra has now applied for a UK passport from Spain – but that had its own complications. “They agreed to accept a notarised copy of my German passport so I did not have to send that off, but they also wanted my original citizenship certificate – which I don’t have, it’s in the UK,” she explained.
Petra now has a “nervous wait” to see if the documentation she was able to provide is accepted and processed in time for early March, when she is due to travel back to the UK before heading to the US for work.
She said she felt let down by the way the changes have been introduced, adding: “I’ve been a British citizen since 2019. The UK is my home – I’ve lived there for 40 years, I own a home, I work and pay tax. My whole life is there.”
Campaign group the3million, which represents EU citizens in the UK, has also criticised government communication around the changes.
“The Home Office has not done enough to warn dual nationals of the serious impact this will have on them,” the group’s head of policy and advocacy, Monique Hawkins, said.
She has called on the government to “urgently hit the pause button” and introduce a “low-cost, one-off travel authorisation” for dual nationals who have found their travel plans disrupted.
A Home Office spokesperson said: “Public information advising dual nationals to carry the correct documentation has been available since October 2024 and a substantive communications campaign about the introduction of ETA has been running since 2023.
“This requirement applies to all British citizens regardless of other nationality and is the same approach taken by other countries, including the United States, Canada and Australia.”