My new brother-in-law who is over in the uk with my sister this month was talking to me about immigration in Austrailia where they live. he was talking about the problems with what he called 'boat people' arriving all the time and it being a big thing there and likened it to our issues with those who stow away on lorries to get into the uk.
Anyhow, he was talking about getting dual-citizenship in the future and my sister doing the same. I asked him if there was any advantage to this and he said that a British passport is THE one to get as it makes it much easier to get into alot of countries, more so than an Austrailian one which suprised me. I should explain that he is Asian, born and raised in India but a long time OZ citizen and holds a OZ passport.
He said that even on his OZ passport he nearly always gets stopped and did so on leaving there to come over to the UK, he thinks because his wife ( my sister ) is white and there is an automatic assumption something dodgy is going on.
His family live all over the world and he said he has been told that if he has the chance, getting a British passport will make is life alot easier.
It was a very enlightening conversation, brilliant guy too I must add - a half indian, half OZ accent is ever so strange when you first hear it!
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