New Home Office rules causing ‘stress upon stress’ for British woman living in Netherlands trying to enter UK
A British woman living in the Netherlands has told of the “stress upon stress” caused by new Home Office rules that leave her unable to travel to see her 91-year-old dying mother back in England.
Annie, who requested her surname was not published, said her British passport expired last Friday and had been submitted as part of her passport renewal application. She had “reasonably expected” to use her Dutch passport to carry on visiting her mother, as she had done every couple of weeks for the past few months.
But rules that come into force on Wednesday require Britons with dual nationality from any country apart from Ireland to present a British passport to enter the country or pay £589 for a “certificate of entitlement”, which can take up to eight weeks to get.
“What the Home Office don’t understand is what they are doing is taking away this chance to be with my mum at the end of her life,” Annie said.
