Vaccine passports for UK citizens for international travel
Oct 30, 2021, 12:57 am
#616
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As a practical issue, in Italy we found showing the first (English) vaccination certificate worked with the Italian verification app, but showing the second vaccination certificate did not (with two people's passes).
Nov 1, 2021, 11:15 am
#617
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Does anyone know what the cutoff time is for the 2nd dose to be counted as a second dose on a vaccine passport? My son is in his 20's got his first dose in late July, forgot about his second dose until now and is hopefully getting the second this week but doesn't know if he's so far along that it doesn't count.
Nov 1, 2021, 12:05 pm
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There is no cut off, at least at the moment. Though it is better to stick to 8 weeks, nevertheless for someone younger having a second jab now is good timing, in terms of the epidemic and winter season, and also counts as a correctly administered second dose as far as the NHS Covid pass is concerned.
Nov 1, 2021, 12:56 pm
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And just to add, I wanted to see what happened with an NHS certificate I had generated last week and it said "invalid certificate signature", so generated a new one and that worked perfectly.
Nov 1, 2021, 1:54 pm
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There is no cut off, at least at the moment. Though it is better to stick to 8 weeks, nevertheless for someone younger having a second jab now is good timing, in terms of the epidemic and winter season, and also counts as a correctly administered second dose as far as the NHS Covid pass is concerned.
Nov 1, 2021, 3:18 pm
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My daughter has lost access to the NHS app and her English digital cert since reregistering with a Scottish physician in St Andrews. She has logged in to the the English website and printed out her info and will now walk it in to NHS Scotland and see if she can get the Scottish app to work.
Nov 2, 2021, 3:34 am
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Just a data point, and sorry if this duplicates, but when downloading the SpTH app as part of the arrivals registration for spain, after scanning my NHS vaccine certificate out popped an “EU vaccination certificate”. Ironically the one displaying in the SpTH app it displays the Flag of the Union and EU flag, but when in Wallet on ios, it displays the Spanish flag and EU flag - but has the same reference / certificate number.
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Nov 2, 2021, 12:42 pm
#625
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Public service announcement for those trusty FTers who are on the Isle of Man and were vaccinated by Manx Care. You normally get your Covid pass via the same NHS login as used in England, but not using the App. Well thanks to, um, alignment with the EU's standards any PDFs you downloaded via the NHS login won't work in the EU. However if you re-generate the PDF from fresh as of today, it should now work. The change is buried in the QR coding, so not at all visible, but it has now been fixed.
Nov 2, 2021, 1:43 pm
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I am not aware of anyone else being affected. Some of the verification apps are available online for checking, but I suspect in a few weeks much of Europe will regard UK issued COVID passes as being ok. The one place where there was a known problem was NL and that seems resolved now.
Nov 12, 2021, 2:25 am
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Indeed the England App does show the third dose. There is a lot of misinformation in this space, and HfP did a woefully inaccurate story on this. There is now a European standard on what QR show, and the UK is aligned on that standard. But proving booster status can be done in other ways apart from a QR code. Austria and Israel are not expecting a QR code at this point - they just need some evidence and there are multiple ways to do that. Here is the key point: both Austria and Israel are on the same QR standard as the UK, so yes this may well change in the future, but it will be a European decision. Austria in particular has very local problems at the moment and I wouldn't take too seriously the idea that this is going to be problematic in the medium term. Israel has given boosters to about 50% of the adult population, UK about 25% (20% of those over 12 years old) and not many other countries are anywhere near this. I don't think this is an issue.