{"id":448417,"date":"2026-02-27T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448417\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:35:08","slug":"cruel-passport-rule-stops-woman-seeing-dying-east-yorkshire-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448417\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Cruel’ passport rule stops woman seeing dying East Yorkshire mum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Annie’s plight was first raised by The Guardian newspaper, external<\/a>, leading to her mother’s MP Sir David Davis to ask a question about the issue in Parliament.<\/p>\n

Sir David described the situation as “a family disaster”.<\/p>\n

“I take the view that one of the absolute constitutional rights of British citizenship is the right to return to your own country and not to be intimidated out of doing so,” he said.<\/p>\n

The Conservative MP asked Home Office minister Mike Tapp if the government would “consider having a simple grace period of six months to allow people to get across this and stop people having their families disrupted?”<\/p>\n

In response, the minister denied there was a lack of public information about the changes.<\/p>\n

“There is no intimidation here,” Tapp told the House of Commons.<\/p>\n

“This is about a secure border and modernising. The equivalent nations around the world are doing exactly the same.”<\/p>\n

A Home Office spokesperson said guidance for dual nationals had been included in public campaigns and “a grace period has existed since the changes were introduced in 2023”.<\/p>\n

“We are doing these checks to ensure illegal migrants and foreign criminals cannot set foot here through our ports and borders by screening them before they travel,” the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n

“We strongly recommend dual citizens travel with their British passport or certificate of entitlement in their foreign passport.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Annie’s plight was first raised by The Guardian newspaper, external, leading to her mother’s MP Sir David Davis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-448417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}