COVID travel pass

Robina

Full Member
Posts
117
Likes
61
Has anyone obtained their COVID travel pass? My husband and I just tried to get ours via the NHS app and he logged in and got straight through to the option to get one. It appeared on screen with a QR code and information about dates of jabs etc. I did mine on an iphone and had to send a picture of my passport and a video of my face saying a few numbers. Then a message said I would get the pass as soon as they had verified my ID details. We did this at the same time on the same app although he did his on an iPad. Should I be worried at these different responses or are there different approaches for some reason?
 
We live in Scotland and applied on line via our NHS Scotland “account” with no further details required. Our vaccination status letters (equivalent to vaccine passport) is needed for Guernsey as of 1st July to avoid any restrictions. The documents arrived by post within 2 days of applying
 
Rapid update - the promised email from NHS arrived within minutes of my first post! I can now access my travel pass! No idea why I had to jump through ID hoops, even though I already had an account from ordering tests, and my husband didn’t. I’ve also ordered a letter from my GP. Now just need to be confident about being allowed into France and back to UK!
 
I had exactly the same experience on NHS app, a bit weird having to make a video selfie repeating a number combination to prove I.D. What are they comparing it to 🤔
 
Well I’m glad someone else had the same experience - I was beginning to think I had been scammed into handing over my identity!
 
Bouydog said:
I had exactly the same experience on NHS app, a bit weird having to make a video selfie repeating a number combination to prove I.D. What are they comparing it to 🤔
Click to expand...
By getting you to repeat numbers they are confirming that the video is live and not a video of the applicant being submitted by a fraudster.

The government have photos of you from your passport and driving license.
 
It seems things have got a bit more complicated, the EU have not as yet approved AZ vaccine that have been produced in India, this leaves 5m people not having correct vaccines. Apparently you can check your batch number online, although I haven't tried this yet.
 
The BBC report that India is rejecting the EU vaccines in a Tit-For-Tat gesture.

I've checked ours and they were manufactured in Belgium.
 
Last edited:
We’ve both had 2 x Pfizer jabs months back, we were told Isle of Man residents could now register for the U.K. NHS app which we have done. Our vaccination records are clearly there (long hand) in the vaccination section, but the promised QR codes have not yet appeared on our apps, we were told they would appear ‘sometime in July’.

We’d like to visit some friends in the U.K. for a couple of days before using the tunnel for a trip to France (hopefully), this would mean having to get PCR tests over there before heading down to the tunnel as if we got them here they would expire before our intended tunnel crossing 🙄.

If push comes to shove, we could get doctor’s letters to prove we’ve had both jabs, but does anyone know if the vaccination records on our apps along with the cards we have giving dates and batch numbers will suffice?

Also, does anyone know if we did get over ok would we be allowed to travel back via Belgium and the Netherlands to hop a ferry from Rotterdam to Hull?

The literature we are looking at seems all very confusing 🤔
 
Last edited by a moderator:
**** said:
If push comes to shove, we could get doctor’s letters to prove we’ve had both jabs, but does anyone know if the vaccination records on our apps along with the cards we have giving dates and batch numbers will suffice?
Click to expand...
It would appear that the NHS app is not being accepted, it looks like doctors letter might be needed, someone I know had to get doctors letter for Jersey, but I don't know for certain if they had the app.
 
Doctors letter could be expensive several years ago mine wanted £30 just to sign my Firearms licence form (he didn't get it) an didn't sign the form
 
colinm said:
It would appear that the NHS app is not being accepted, it looks like doctors letter might be needed, someone I know had to get doctors letter for Jersey, but I don't know for certain if they had the app.
Click to expand...
We are being told that the app will be accepted but it needs to include the QR code so that they can scan it at the border (presumably to get people through quicker without any language barrier?).

Although we now have the U.K. app on both our phones, everything but the QR code is present. The Manx government are saying be patient as it will be populated to the app in the next few days!

Forget it, I think we’ll just nip over to Heysham, meet our friends for a few days, then hop a ferry over to Belfast instead. The irony is we are allowed to travel to and from the common travel area (all of the British isles) and because Northern Ireland is included, so is Eire without quarantining as long as you are double jabbed (2+2 as they call it). On returning home we have to test and release. Obviously if one of us tested positive we’d have to quarantine then.

Net result, we can travel to Eire (Europe) without any restrictions because the whole of mainland Ireland is classed as part of the common travel area. Weird or what?
 
witzend said:
Doctors letter could be expensive several years ago mine wanted £30 just to sign my Firearms licence form (he didn't get it) an didn't sign the form
Click to expand...
You’re not kidding, friends of ours went home to Poland for a holiday knowing they wouldn’t be in time for the NHS app, had to pay £25 each for doctor’s letters saying they’d been double jabbed and more than two weeks had lapsed since the last jab. Of course they’ll have to quarantine when then return from outside the common area.
 
Just found out I've had the Indian one, if your batch number is 4120Z001, 4120Z002 or 4120Z003 then you have too.
 
My 2nd jab has one of those batch numbers. The government denies the Telegraph's claim, whilst Johnson says it is an administrative error that will be sorted. Who knows? best to wait a bit I think.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who viewed this discussion (Total:0)

Back
Top