Originally Posted by
Roger
You do if you live in the UK.
No, I don't understand it, either.
Getting even more OT, why am I asked to show a passport at Irish immigration, when we allow inbound pax to wave a boarding pass on the return?
I answered this on a thread a while back.
The short reason is that Ireland and the UK allow citizens of either country arriving from the other to be exempt from immigration control. The passenger is obliged to prove citizenship at both ends (which you can do with a passport, photo ID+birth cert, or several other things), but the UK does not enforce it.