A Survey: The Red Pass [Swiss passport]

Lob · #1 31.10.2006, 09:44

Do you or your spouse/partner have a Swiss passport?
Do you or your spouse/partner have other passport(s)?

This is just to get an idea of some of the demographics of our EF members...

Nickers · #2 31.10.2006, 09:50

love the last option on the poll

Music Mole · #3 31.10.2006, 14:13

I didn't vote because it seems you have to vote regarding your partner or yourself, but not both, but the question seems to encompass both

Interesting question.

evilshell · #4 31.10.2006, 15:45

I voted that my husband has one - but there should also be an option that "my spouse has one and I am considering applying for one" along with both of those as the individual options.

I know, I know, I always complain about options on polls

Lob · #5 31.10.2006, 16:00

I thought about this and I considered multiple-choice but in the end, it's down firstly to what you have as the poster on EF.

Get your other half to vote too

I would have liked to vote for me to get a Red Pass but alas, I got bored at 8 options.

I see Bruce has been in then

Music Mole · #6 31.10.2006, 16:11

	Quote:	evilshell
	there should also be an option that "my spouse has one and I am considering applying for one" along with both of those as the individual options.

That's what I would vote too. Well close enough anyway - more exactly my answer would be "My spouse has one (and my child) and I will apply for one."

HAT · #7 31.10.2006, 17:37

	Quote:	Lob Rockster
	Do you or your spouse/partner have a Swiss passport? Do you or your spouse/partner have other passport(s)? This is just to get an idea of some of the demographics of our EF members...

Hi
I am not trying to pick a bone, but this demographics data is not allowed in the Switzerland? Is it not?
I mean I had to sign all sorts of forms, and most of them are about data privacy and protection in CH.

HAT

Lob · #8 31.10.2006, 17:40

	Quote:	HAT
	Hi I am not trying to pick a bone, but this demographics data is not allowed in the Switzerland? Is it not? I mean I had to sign all sorts of forms, and most of them are about data privacy and protection in CH. HAT

HAT, you're not trying to pick a bone but you are. Do stop.
It's an anonymous poll. Duh

katie · #9 31.10.2006, 17:45

Heya

What about the option " my spouse has a swiss passport but I dont want or need one really ?"

Lol just kidding about yet another option. My Fiancee has a Swiss passport as he is Swiss but I dont think I really need one - I mean, that there is nowhere that I am aware of that I cant go on the Australian passport, that I can go on the swiss - But, at the same time I think I want just so I can say that I have two Passports

Enjoy
kt

JenniferD · #10 31.10.2006, 18:02

*hugs Canadian passport*

I'm ok with mine as well....my husband thought by marrying me he'd be entitled to a canadian one as well. um, no.

DC_in_Hombi · #11 18.12.2006, 21:11

1 Member of out household has a CH passport, The Dog.
We will get her a UK one when we are in England for Christmas.

DC

Music Mole · #12 19.12.2006, 00:06

	Quote:	DC_in_Hombi
	1 Member of out household has a CH passport, The Dog. We will get her a UK one when we are in England for Christmas. DC

I thought both Switzerland and the UK participated in the same Pet Passport scheme . . .

meloncollie · #13 19.12.2006, 00:24

	Quote:	Music Mole
	I thought both Switzerland and the UK participated in the same Pet Passport scheme . . .

While the passports serve the same function, each EU state issue it's own passport, as does Switzerland. The UK PETS rules are the most rigorous, but there are still some variations as to entry requirements among the other participating countries. Always check the regs for the country you are visiting...

Only one of mine had the nice red passport - the others hold German, Spanish and Italian ones... and one is a papierlos asylum seeker.

Getting back on topic...

We humans are are stuck with US passports, and unfortunately that's not likely to change. But at least someone in the family qualifies as an echt Schweizer.

Edited to add:

DC, as long as your dog has met the UK PETS requirements, there is no real need to get a UK passport in addition to the Swiss one - mine traveled in and out of the UK on her Swiss papers.

Thambo · #14 19.12.2006, 10:32

My wife has one

Should I wish to apply for one, I could in October 2007

litespeed · #15 19.12.2006, 10:50

	Quote:	katie
	Heya I mean, that there is nowhere that I am aware of that I cant go on the Australian passport, that I can go on the swiss kt

I just found out the hard way that Brazil is one of those places. Ended up in Buenos Aires for a week waiting for the application to process, while my wife sunned herself at the Copa Cabana.

Right now I have the application here...but I am reluctant to send it until I have steady employment again.

Tamara_ch · #16 24.12.2006, 15:08

hi all, i come from somalia and i have a c permit, i have been here alsmot 12 years and i'm considering applying for swiss pass, and i was wondering how much does it cost and what kind of questions will they ask me in the interview, and is there a way i can prepare for the interview

Kittster · #17 04.01.2007, 19:08

I was born here to a Swiss father so I have a Swiss passport.
My British mother registered my birth with the embassy here but for various reasons, my father didn't want me to have the passport and never agreed to me getting it but not disagreeing either. So Jack Straw (or one of his assistants, the letter has his name on it) wrote one final letter, got no answer and I just managed to get the passport in time before the right to have it expired three months before my 18th birthday.

A lot of countries don't allow for two passports, not sure why, maybe because people would use them fraudulently but since a British passport doesn't even get you home status in the British education system (I had to pay overseas fees for uni), not many advantages there. Well ok, I get to pick the shorter queue at the airport.