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That's a definite maybe! Some countries make the airline need to know in advance whether to let you even board. Say the US with the electronic visaless authori

That's a definite maybe! Some countries make the airline need to know in advance whether to let you even board. Say the US with the electronic visaless authorization. You gotta give the airline your ESTA. Canada wants to know as well. So you need to have your PR card or Canadian passport on file or the electronic authorization. But that doesn't stop you from entering Europe on a European passport. You can have your say Canadian passport on file and fly out on that. At the destination you show your European passport (smaller line ups and basically you are just waived through). You never show the Canadian passport in the EU on arrival. You have the Canadian one on file and show that when leaving so they let you board. Back in Canada you use your Canadian passport to enter. This way you never get any visa stamps and you "fly through passport control" on either end. So yeah, even if this is maybe used by "sleeper agents" it's also just normal for dual citizens.

lunaticlabs 2y ago
As both a US and EU citizen who lives in the EU, I actually run into issues with this. I book my flight with my US with my US passport, and it's a round trip, so it ends up with the same passport registered. I go through the EU line upon entering the EU, but they consistently also ask me for my US passport. This hasn't happened on the automated kiosks for whatever reason.
bobthepanda 2y ago
To the extent that the airlines care, anyone who cannot enter the country is deported at the airline's expense. So where it matters they do care. This is not really new. Back when steamship was the most common way of traveling between continents, the ocean lines gave lessons to the third-class passengers on what to say to US immigration officials so that they wouldn't have to pay for their lodging and return if they got denied entry. (At the time first-class passengers were not screened this way, so they didn't bother teaching them.)
- tharkun__ 2y ago
  That makes a lot of sense! Incentives! Also a nice fun fact about steamships I did not know. Love learning little tidbits like that!

lunaticlabs 2y ago

As both a US and EU citizen who lives in the EU, I actually run into issues with this. I book my flight with my US with my US passport, and it's a round trip, so it ends up with the same passport registered. I go through the EU line upon entering the EU, but they consistently also ask me for my US passport. This hasn't happened on the automated kiosks for whatever reason.

bobthepanda 2y ago

To the extent that the airlines care, anyone who cannot enter the country is deported at the airline's expense. So where it matters they do care. This is not really new. Back when steamship was the most common way of traveling between continents, the ocean lines gave lessons to the third-class passengers on what to say to US immigration officials so that they wouldn't have to pay for their lodging and return if they got denied entry. (At the time first-class passengers were not screened this way, so they didn't bother teaching them.)

tharkun__ 2y ago
That makes a lot of sense! Incentives! Also a nice fun fact about steamships I did not know. Love learning little tidbits like that!