Passport changes prevent British dual national from visiting dying mother

Annie: ‘What the Home Office don’t understand is they are taking away this chance to be with my mum at the end of her life.’ Photograph: Annie

A British woman living in the Netherlands has told of the “stress upon stress” caused by new Home Office rules that leave her unable to travel to see her 91-year-old dying mother back in England.

Annie, who requested her surname was not published, said her British passport expired last Friday and had been submitted as part of her passport renewal application. She had “reasonably expected” to use her Dutch passport to carry on visiting her mother, as she had done every couple of weeks for the past few months.