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[English Muffin 59]

I have a question, If you fly down to London for your interview and you have to leave your Passport with the embasy, then how do you fly back home? I belive you need photo ID to board your flight and if you dont have a photo Drivers Licence what do you use?

You use any piece of photo ID that the airline you're flying with will accept. If you don't have any then you'll need to consider another form of transport.

Gillian

[bbpatel 0]

I have a question, If you fly down to London for your interview and you have to leave your Passport with the embasy, then how do you fly back home? I belive you need photo ID to board your flight and if you dont have a photo Drivers Licence what do you use?

You'd have to wait - you can fly back to Ireland or the Channel Islands with just a drivers license, as it's within the Common Travel Area, but anywhere else, you need a passport.

If you dont have a photo drivers license, it's ok, just safe to have something 'just in case' - but as you won't pass through immigration if you're flying from the Common Travel Area (that is within the UK, Ireland and the Channel Islands) its ok.

You won't be able to board without a passport to anywhere else though, Carriers Liability law and all that.

[Lansbury 19]

I have a question, If you fly down to London for your interview and you have to leave your Passport with the embasy, then how do you fly back home? I belive you need photo ID to board your flight and if you dont have a photo Drivers Licence what do you use?

You use any piece of photo ID that the airline you're flying with will accept. If you don't have any then you'll need to consider another form of transport.

Gillian

BA certainly didn't require any ID to check in for a domestic flight and I can't find anything on their web site that says that has changed. BMI seemed to only want ID for "domestic" flights between the UK and Ireland

Ryanair on the other hand has the most stringent ID requirements.

[StillThePrettiest 3]

they asked for my passport when I flew BA from London to Aberdeen... it was as a form of photo ID I think; I never had a UK driver's license, but still, it was required

[Lansbury 19]

they asked for my passport when I flew BA from London to Aberdeen... it was as a form of photo ID I think; I never had a UK driver's license, but still, it was required

They have fallen in line with the others then. They were refusing to do so at one time saying it wasn't necessary and served no useful purpose from the airlines standpoint.

[cstark_67 1]

My fiance was facing the same problem from Scotland to London so she's taking the train.

She doesn't drive and her passport is her only form of photo I'D.

[Ryan H 3,810]

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