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Originally Posted by bonnie25
Right, bit of background.
I have a British passport, but I could get an Irish one.
Bike is registered in UK
Licence is from UK.
Planning and overland trip from UK to SE Asia. Iran is a massive headache- I really want to go, but Brits are unable to travel independently.
My plan is to get an Irish passport, and then I will be able to travel alone, but the bike will have UK plates. Has anyone got any experience travelling with a vehicle from a different country to them?
Or do I just admit defeat and go around?
I'm leaving in 5 months and I really need to finalise my route!
Thanks for your help!
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I'm not going to be much help because I'm in exactly the same situation - dual UK / Irish passports and looking at a trip to Iran in (autumn) 2016 on a UK plated bike using the Irish passport. So far I've done nothing other than look up the address of the Iranian embassy in Dublin.
I've done a couple of bike trips so far - one in Europe and one in the US - using the Irish passport and my UK driving licence and not had any problems but that was partly because nobody asked to see both of them at the same time.
If you don't have your Irish passport yet it's probably not a bad idea to start the application process sooner rather than later. You'll need a paper trail of birth certificates to prove the connection, a bunch of utility bills to prove your residency and they took my UK passport as proof of identity. Once I had the paperwork it took about six weeks for the process to go through.
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