nicenanny3 Selectively highlighting to reinforce your own prejudices is weird. The rest of what I wrote matters equally.
they are destroyed in an act of war; they’ve been seized by the authororities, and lots more. Plus many embassies in war zones are closed
The latter matters because a) those without passports but with the means to buy one can’t get them; and b) many countries require either exit or entry visas to travel, and these can’t be obtained if embassies or consulates aren’t open.
At that point (stay with me here, it’s not complicated) travel by major carrier becomes even more problematic because of lack of training and investment in implementing the Carrier Sanctions Directive 2001/51/EC, in particular Recital 3 of the directive which states that signatories have to apply the directive “without prejudice to the obligations resulting from the 1951 Geneva Convention”, which includes the prohibition of refoulement
How ironic - some HMRC staff essentially committing fraud.
