Passport needed for ferry travel between Scotland & Northern Ireland?

[redjade]

I am an American presently in Scotland and i stupidly left my passport in England - I need to travel to Belfast by Ferry - will i need or be asked for my passport? Are there border guards between NI and Scotland?

[thewillow]

No. It's all the United Kingdom.

[jenstar]

They've never asked anytime I've used that route, though no doubt you'll need a passport to travel two stops on the bus before long.

[Gef]

Once you are in Northern Ireland you won't even need your passport if you wish to cross the border into the Republic.

[thewillow]

Gef - This is the case officially. However, in the past eighteeen months or so, immigration officers from the Republic of Ireland have been boarding the Belfast-Dublin train and questioning non-caucasians and, in some cases, sending people back to Northern Ireland.