UK Enforces Travel Authorization Requirement for 85 Countries

Government-critical narrative

British dual nationals face being blocked from their own country due to poorly communicated rules that treat them like foreign visitors. The £589 certificate of entitlement is punitively expensive compared to the £16 tourist permit, and the eight-week processing time has left citizens stranded abroad, missing funerals and unable to visit dying relatives. The government ignored calls for a grace period despite families learning about these requirements only days before enforcement.