A family from Aberdeenshire was refused entry to the UK while trying to return from a holiday in Alicante because their baby did not have the correct passport after a change in the rules for dual nationals.
Eleven-month-old Lily Rodgers was born in Scotland but has an Austrian passport, which is the nationality of her father, Philip, 34.
Under previous rules that were overhauled in February, a British dual national could travel to the UK using their foreign passport.
Lily’s mother, Sarah Rodgers, 30, said they could now face a wait of several months while they wait for Lily’s British passport application to be approved.
Sarah said that Lily’s Austrian passport states she was born in Britain, and that she also offered to show her birth certificate as proof – but was told this wouldn’t be sufficient.
The couple, who live in Ellon and are also parents to three-year-old Heidi, had already had their luggage loaded onto the plane and it was only when boarding the plane that the problem was flagged.
Sarah said: “They were talking to each other in Spanish and when they told us we couldn’t board we thought it must have been a system failure.”
