Yorkygirl

Thanks for your advice. I expect to be away a while.

Thsnks Quoll. So it's ok for me to have a one way ticket? Yes I have a travel exemption and am fully vaxxed (if that counts?). I would like to go to UK to support my step mum who has taken Dad's loss very hard. I am now retired so don't need to worry about when I return but would hate to be turned away at the gate! I am going to see about getting a UK passport asap. Thanks again.

Hi I am British born but Australian citizen. I have been here 50+ years. I have booked a one way ticket to UK flying out on 2/9. I will he using my Aus passport. At the time of booking my father was in palliative care. Because of this I wasn't sure of a return date. My father has since passed away and his funeral is on 9/9. Am I okay to travel without a return ticket. I don't have a UK passport. Thanks for any advice you can give.

Well said Tulip1. I wish you were around in 1970 pre immigration to speak to my parents. I wonder if Crackerjack is still on here? I hope he and his children are doing ok. They will be grown now.

I can answer this from the child's perspective. Albeit a long time ago now. In 1970 when I was 10 I emigrated to Australia with my divorced Mum and widowed Grandmother. To this day - 48 years later - I resent my parents for allowing this to happen. Although I dearly love both my parents (one either side of the globe!) I also hate them for what they put me through. The loss of both sides of my family is still heartbreaking. I doubt I will ever fully come to terms with it. Facetime/holidays etc won't cut the mustard. I have spent any savings I had/have to travel to the UK to try and have a relationship with my family and yet l am always the outsider. You have the right to be happy of course but not at the expense of your child's. Please don't do it.