ID card rollout begins

[Roland Perry]

In article <91EEBB26-4C11-4502-A81E-3233461639D6@batten.eu.org>, Ian 
Batten <igb@batten.eu.org> writes
>> "If your visa is from a country fully applying the Schengen rules, it 
>>automatically allows you to travel to the other Schengen countries as 
>>well [1]. Moreover, if you have a valid residence permit from one of 
>>those Schengen countries, it is equivalent to a visa [2].
>
>But not, crucially, a passport.  So:
>
>1.  Country-X passport plus a visa for a Schengen country is equivalent 
>to a Country-X passport plus a visa for any other Schengen country.
>
>2.  Country-X passport plus a residence permit for a Schengen country 
>is equivalent to a Country-X passport plus a visa for any other 
>Schengen country.
>
>In both cases you're travelling on your Country-X passport, bolstered 
>by visas or visa-equivalents.  What you're not doing is travelling on 
>your residence permit: you still need your Country-X passport.

But the visa you mention has been verified and you issued with a 
National ID card (so says the Home Office website), and they are good 
for travel - normally. Unless they aren't actually ID Cards, but 'just' 
a residence permit; in which case I wish the Home office would stop 
calling it a "national ID Card":

"The introduction of national identity cards for foreign residents will 
be followed by the first ID cards for British citizens, targeting 
workers in sensitive roles - such as airports - from 2009."

-- 
Roland Perry