I wonder if the issue is when you never had a passport before? Maybe for renewals it is easier?
Mine has that as well, it just means that all the relevant info is embedded into the chip in the passport. It doesn’t necessitate a visit to the embassy to get the biometric data recorded, it’s all done online.
If you are Swiss, living in Australia, you have to go to Sydney to get your biometrics taken. My friends in Perth have to fly a ten hour round trip to get their Swiss passport renewed.
Then I can imagine britons boarding the rubber boats in Calais.
Lets just take a step back and savour the thought of stranded Brexiteers climbing the lorries like the African “refugees” do in a desperate attempt to get to Britain.
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Can’t imagine many Brexiters are dual citizens travelling on their non-UK passport.
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Just for the avoidance of doubt the carrier (ship, plane, rail,) transporting you to the UK will ask for your passport and scan it into their DCS (Departure Control System). The DCS will query the UK government data base asking if a ETA exists for said passport number. Within a fraction of a second a “board/don’t board instruction will be given. This can occur long before departure when you give the airline your passport details, or literally at the gate. Of course any valid UK (Irish) will be given the “board” instruction.
Your ETA is attached to your passport number
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One can dream.
@NotAllThere - just saw you were looking for a thread that covers this topic. 
Yes. Found it and deleted the one I posted.
Much kerfuffle in The Times comments. It seems that while some people think it was well publicised, others beg to differ.
Like me, who only heard of this last Sunday.
I know four dual Swiss/British citizens with ETAs and no British passport. And only one of them ever had one!
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To ETA or not to ETA, that is the question ? Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Brexiteers, Or to take arms against Nigel Farage and by opposing him end them.
By gad, we should never have left the EU . . . . . . . . . I tell you !!!
Just wait until everyone with Schengen/EU dual citizenship has to do the same later this year!
*a national of a European country requiring ETIAS or of Ireland
If you have multiple nationalities and one of them is from a European country requiring ETIAS or Ireland, you must use your travel document issued by that European country during your trip to any of the 30 European countries requiring ETIAS.”
I use my EFTA (CH) passport (or ID card) for all my travels except when travelling to my country of origin.
Same. But think about all those in non-eu people who also have citizenship of one of those 30 countries. Or will no one complain about it, because it’s not the UK.
I believe the target was a little higher up
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The UK never joined the Schengen area. But could have with being an EU member - like Switzerland…
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Switzerland is not a member state!
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The UK never left Schengen because they were never in it to start with.
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Thanks for pointing that out.
FTFY
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