King's coat of arms to feature on new UK passports
King's coat of arms to feature on new UK passports
The full redesign, coming into effect from December, will be the first since passports turned dark blue after Brexit.
Shame they aren't changing them back to burgundy whilst they're at it.
Natural landscapes from all four UK nations will also feature inside the updated documents, including Ben Nevis, the Lake District, Three Cliffs Bay and the Giant's Causeway.
Honestly, good. The current passport is actually hideous. Each page is just a random boring soulless geometric pattern. It is a significant downgrade from the previous passport design which had a charming chaotic assortment of statues, buildings, the london tube map, British inventions, etc. It was a lovely patriotic tribute to the UK. Then when it went blue it just turned into bland shapes (although the floral emblem on the back cover is nice)
Meanwhile the Irish passport not only has images on each visa page and little musical notes from their anthem, but even the ribbon holding it all together is green, white and orange like their national flag (The only reference to it I think, makes sense considering that the passport is given to people from Northern Ireland as well)
The Chinese passport is also cool, each page is themed off of a different Chinese province, I think there's one for the two Special Administrative Regions as well.
Another advantage of the Irish passport over the British passport is that the Irish passport allows you to live and work in 26 other European countries. But hey ho.
lol true. I am a Protestant in Northern Ireland, but even then I had to resort to getting an Irish passport to visit my girlfriend in China, as the Irish Passport has 30 day visa-free entry, and was cheaper to get one than a visa on my British one.
However, just say I wanted to cross into Vietnam, I'd need to present my British passport as it's the other way around.
From what I hear, the British passport is better for long-term stays in some places. You get 180 days in Hong Kong SAR vs the Irish passport's 90 days. And if you're migrating to or having a long-term stay in Australia, it's more straightforward with a British passport.
Some reckon that the consular assistance is better with a British passport (People in Northern Ireland typically used this to justify a British passport which was slightly more expensive), but I don't know if that's the case post brexit. I remember the crisis in Sudan a number of years ago, the Brits were still stuck there while the Irish had already been evacuated by the Germans on account of the EU. I believe every EU diplomatic mission is actually supposed to support EU citizens regardless of nationality, although possibly in cases where their home country's mission is inaccessible. Still would be nice, for example, a German citizen staying in Belfast could seek help from the Polish consulate if needs be.
Yeah they should add that feature to the British passport.
Pointless pageantry, but whatever floats his royal boat.
In all fairness, I don't think he really cares considering he cant have a passport in the first place.
Yeah, it's more about updating to the current emblems, which would happen anyway. Sounds like they are updating the passports and doing this at the same time. If the King was that bothered he would have made them change it when they altered the text from "her majesty" to "his majesty".
I honestly don't know how that works. Does he even require one?
Read the article. They're just updating the passport as a whole. So it makes sense they'll change the crown on the cover to reflect the King's arms.
As ever, having a monarchy is absurd.
Fuck off and make them red again.
Well I'm glad we've got that sorted. I was concerned the passports wouldn't get redesigned, I can sleep soundly now.