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“Falkland Islands” on British Overseas Territory passport front cover
The Falkland Islands British Overseas Territory Citizen passport book is to be changed to include ‘Falkland Islands’ on the front cover, it was agreed a few weeks ago. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesStep by step creating a recognisable international identity.
Sep 26th, 2014 - 08:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0A slow process but Argentina has failed to realise how powerful it will be.
It took them until 1983 before they were British citizens? What were they before and how did they get about without a passport before?
Sep 26th, 2014 - 10:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0@2 Livingthedream,
Sep 26th, 2014 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well we weren't Argentines, l'll tell you that for free.
Not Argentinean.
Sep 26th, 2014 - 11:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Happy.
Sep 26th, 2014 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0One of us is misunderstanding this article Skip....
Sep 26th, 2014 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0“The UK's decision to repatriate its passport process is one of the specific areas of concern for most of the UK's overseas territories and was one of the main items on the agenda at the Overseas Territories Heads of Government pre-Joint Ministerial Council Meeting held in Cayman last week. With the exception of the Falkland Islands, where the decision has been made for its citizens to adopt a British passport and abandon their own unique territory passport, all of the other leaders, including Cayman's own premier, are concerned about this issue.”
Surely there can't be many folk on the Falklands that have or want a BOT passport...
I thought they all accepted a British passport....
An ambiguous article....
2- We had a Falkland Islands Passport which was in effect a British Passport but without the right of abode in the UK - unless your father was born there.
Sep 26th, 2014 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0We were British Overseas Citizens stuck in a sort of half-way limbo.
After 1983 we got the same passport as everyone in UK gets - now we can have the words Falkland Islands added to it I understand.
7
Sep 26th, 2014 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0No I don't think you do understand...
“Our understanding is that there is not an option to have ‘Falklands Islands’ included on the front cover of these passport books and this is no different to other Overseas Territories whose citizens opt to take up a full British UK/European Union passport,” said MLA Summers.
#1 “ Step by step creating a recognisable international identity.”
Sep 26th, 2014 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, and they are substantive steps that will further advance the Falklands towards confident self- determination , not like the meaningless stunts perpetrated by Argentina that leaves them looking powerless and foolish.
One would prefer algamation with Britain,
Sep 26th, 2014 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0but that's just my point of view....
Downunder
Sep 26th, 2014 - 12:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Gibraltar is doing the same and Spain is too stupid to see it as well. Argentina is going to wake up with a new independent country on its doorstep one day.
Spain will wake up to it even sooner.
8- I,ll phone him and ask! If that is so then why the article? why tell us we cannot have something we knew we had not had-and were not bothered about anyway- for the last 30 years? Something is wrong in the article and headline as they contradict!
Sep 26th, 2014 - 01:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Typo maybe?
Sep 26th, 2014 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0August 2014 South Georgia News:
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On a day when little else is going on the powers that be have a long “French” lunch and ponder “what can we do that will annoy the hell out of our illustirious neighbours today?”
Sep 26th, 2014 - 02:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Falkland Islands” on British Overseas Territory passport front cover“
Sep 26th, 2014 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it should say: british colony- 3rd class pleb.
”Gibraltar is the only exception and this is because of their geographical location and particular relationship with the EU.”
gibraltar will be expelled from the e.u. as soon as england leaves it.
@16 1000% better than having Argie land on it, who would want to be associated with a failed nation, you must feel so small and insignificant when you hand your Argie passport to border control, perish the thought!
Sep 26th, 2014 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 012
Sep 26th, 2014 - 05:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0....that's right it is totally misleading and ambiguous...
....give him a bell and let us all know....
B O T , passport front cover“
Sep 26th, 2014 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it should say: British colony- 3rd class plebe
Well, at least it will never say
Argentine colony 4rth rate surfs…
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Gibraltar will be expelled from the EU . as soon as England leaves it
1, England will never ever leave the unmighty EU= because England is not a member of the EU,
As for Gibraltar this would totally depend on what they want,
1, if they choose to stay, arrangements will be made
2, if they choose to go, arrangements will be made,
Simple is it not…
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@16 D.H.
Sep 26th, 2014 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Jersey and Guernsey are not members of the EU either but have a 'very successful relationship with Europe.' 0/10
(18) Voice
Sep 26th, 2014 - 07:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Misleading and ambiguous...?
Penguin News Uruguay...?
No Way...!
So can any Falkland Islander go live in the UK like Puerto Ricans can come to mainland U.S. and live?
Sep 26th, 2014 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes....all those that took the Queens shilling....;-)))
Sep 26th, 2014 - 10:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7
Sep 27th, 2014 - 01:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0In other words, the Falklands should build a monument to the Argentine military for eventuating their upgrade as full citizens.
I've always said that Argentina and especially CFK has done more to create a Falkland Island's identity and nation than anyone else.
Sep 27th, 2014 - 02:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0rostrun 24# “ the Falklands should build a monument to the Argentine military ”
Sep 27th, 2014 - 03:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0There is a monument to the Argentine military on the Falklands, it owes its existence to the aggression and sheer stupidity of Argentina and because the Islanders have generously put their feelings aside and allowed the remains of argentine soldiers a respectful final resting place.
You people need to wake up to yourselves and face reality!
These people need to remember the result of a dirtnap. Love it
Sep 27th, 2014 - 08:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0it or die it.
(12) Islander1
Sep 27th, 2014 - 05:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What...
Mike not picking the phone?
I'm having the same problem with Axel ;-)
This is about the BOTC passport, not the BC passport.
Sep 28th, 2014 - 11:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Surely there can't be many folk on the Falklands that have or want a BOT passport...
I thought they all accepted a British passport....
An ambiguous article....”
Voice,
People who are citizens by birth on an OT are both BCs and BOTCS
What I understand is that non-Britons who naturalise as British on the basis of residence in an OT do so as BOTCs, not BCs, and afterwards can register, under the Home Secretary's discretion, as BCs, or if they move to the UK can register as BCs after five years residence there.
29
Sep 29th, 2014 - 12:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah that makes sense, there would be a few from Chile that perhaps have a BOTC passport...and maybe they don't want to be a British Citizen....
29- you are cotrect, Mike Summers confirmed it- a misleading article, Voice, agree I don't know of any islanders who have one - you are limited in Int travel with one of those nowadays - most would have the full Br passport anyway.Yes those who have settled here of non Br origen and who now have qualified for full FI citizenship could have one as it would be UK and not FI that would have to agree to give them a full Br one as explained by 29.
Sep 29th, 2014 - 10:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0TWIMC...
Sep 29th, 2014 - 04:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In plain English...:
1) The Anglo squatters in Malvinas get a Full Monty British Passport without the “F” word on its cover...
2) The 350+ toilet cleaning/drinks serving imported Chilean working force gets, at best, a Dinky Toy British Overseas Territories Passport (with the “F” word on its cover) that is as useful as this ...:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Old-hongkong-bp.jpg
Or this ...:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Old-hongkong-bp.jpg
Anglos........
Always so generous.........
The Anglo squatters in Malvinas get a Full Monty British Passport without the “F” word on its cover
Sep 29th, 2014 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Better than a full argentine passport with A on the front
And argentine guards on every corner.
Argentine or British,
What would you Freely choose.
@33 Briton,
Oct 01st, 2014 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Think shouldn't be eligible for any type of passport as he is just a squatter on native land.
l suppose you could/should always deport him back to Sweden.
Seems fair to me ..lol
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