On 19/01/2017 13:28, Tim Streater wrote:
In article . com,
dennis@home wrote:

On 19/01/2017 11:57, pamela wrote:
On 11:05 19 Jan 2017, Brian-Gaff wrote:

Rumour has it that a number of UK scientists are after dual
nationality so they can be protected from any barriers.
Brian


Lucky me, I think I may qualify for dual nationality and a
passport from an EU member state. I won't pass that up if I can
get it. It may be very useful to leave this sinking ship behind in
a few years.

What could better symbolise Britain's exaggerated pride in it's
own shoddiness than the old blue passport? Oversized, creasable,
with shabby paper behind windows, prone to letters rubbing off,
and all that. Yet many retain a strange proud hypnotic attachment
to it. I wonder if Brexiteers will turn back the clock and restore
it? I don't mind the colour but the rest of it is so ugh!


Well there will need to be new passports issued at some time.
If the EU or other countries refuse to accept an EU passport from the UK

We don't have EU passports Den they are all issued by the member state.
The only change I expect is removing the "European Union" bit at the
top of the front cover and possibly changing the colour but I don't
suppose many people will give a monkey's.

as no longer being valid it will have to be before anyone can travel
abroad so there could be a mass application for passports and it could
take a while to process them.

Why would it no longer be valid? A passport is whatever the issuing
authority says it is.

Rubbish.
The country of entry has the say on what's valid not the issuing country.
Why do you think you need a visa as well as a passport to get into some
countries?

What if the country of entry says "well its says you are a citizen of
the EU but you aren't so go home"? What's the UK going to do as issuing
country?

I expect everyone will have to *pay* for a new passport soon.

We already pay for new passports.

When they expire?
Are they all going to expire on brexit?


Passports are becoming more and more similar anyway so that all
countries can machine-process them if they want to.


So?