{"id":393243,"date":"2021-01-04T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T05:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=393243"},"modified":"2021-01-04T11:31:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T06:01:48","slug":"britons-flying-home-to-spain-caught-in-post-brexit-red-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/britons-flying-home-to-spain-caught-in-post-brexit-red-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"Britons flying home to Spain caught in post-Brexit red tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blame Covid-19 travel restrictions or Brexit but whatever the cause, some British citizens trying to return to their homes in Spain this weekend have been barred from boarding flights.<\/p>\n<p>Airlines are refusing documents that before Brexit had been valid proof of the Britons\u2019 status as residents in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Their ordeal comes amid heightened travel restrictions due to a coronavirus variant that has been blamed for faster contagion in the UK And highlights the bureaucratic complexities resulting from Britain\u2019s departure from the 27-nation European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Both Spanish and British authorities said Sunday that the green-colored certificate of EU citizenship with a foreign national identification number issued by Spain is still valid for British citizens residing in Spain under the bilateral provisions that followed the U.K.S withdrawal from the bloc on December 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blame Covid-19 travel restrictions or Brexit but whatever the cause, some British citizens trying to return to their homes in Spain this weekend have been barred from boarding flights. Airlines are refusing documents that before Brexit had been valid proof of the Britons\u2019 status as residents in Spain. Their ordeal comes amid heightened travel restrictions due to a coronavirus variant that has been blamed for faster contagion in the UK And highlights the bureaucratic complexities resulting from Britain\u2019s departure from the 27-nation European Union. Both Spanish and British authorities said Sunday that the green-colored certificate of EU citizenship with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}