As dual national Brit/Aussie citizen can i travel to New Zealand on Brit passport

[Guest JJA]

Hi everyone,

 

I am a dual Aussie/Brit citizen and am thinking of taking off to New Zealand next week for 7 days and was wondering if i could travel to and from New Zealand on my brit passport, because i have not got an Australian one. Is this possible?(i have heard that as a dual citizen i will not get back into Australia unless i have an Australian one).

 

 

your help would be appreciated.

 

cheers,

 

Jay

[RockDr]

Once you got citizenship your visa was invalidated because australian citizens cannot hold a visa for australia. So you could get in and out of NZ no problem, but you'll have trouble getting back into Australia without a passport.

[thewebweazel]

As far as I know you if you are a Dual citizen you have to leave and enter a country with the corresponding passport, so if you leave and enter Oz and you are an Ozzie citizen you have to use a Ozzie passport and the same with the UK, as a Dual citizen you cannot get "protection" in a country that you are a citizen of. Also if you are now a Ozzie Citizen I take it that your Visa in you UK passport will have been cancelled so when you come back they will not let you in, as you do not have a Visa. TBH if I were you I would get the Ozzie passport, its not worth the risk.

[Bobbsy]

My UK-born-now-Aussie-citizen wife had exactly that problem a while back. Indeed, the didn't want to let her out of Aus on a UK passport so I believe thewebweasel has it right, I'm afraid.