"I had left on 2 April from Luton airport using my Spanish passport, as I had always done throughout my whole life. When it came to the return, I had no problems getting through passport control or security."
"It was then that she learned of the new border rules that came into force on 26 February requiring British dual nationals to present a British passport before boarding a flight or to buy a certificate of entitlement to the right of abode in the UK at a cost of 589."
"It was pure shock, Cochrane de la Rosa said. She said the British embassy had refused an application for emergency travel documentation because it didn't meet the threshold of what they consider to be an emergency."
Natasha Cochrane de la Rosa, a British woman, was denied boarding a flight back to London from Spain due to new Home Office border rules. Born in the UK to a British father and a Spanish mother, she was not automatically entitled to British citizenship because her parents were unmarried. After traveling to the Netherlands, she learned she needed a British passport or a costly certificate to return home. Despite having her British birth certificate and driving license, she was refused boarding and faced difficulties with emergency travel documentation.
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