Can I just travel without US Passport?

[Harsh_77 718]

When I travel to Europe, especially if I do a one way flight, I always use my UK passport for check-in and everything else. It has never once been a problem. *shrugs*

I am assuming they airline officials assume your British Citizen when you show your passport on oneway ticket.

Technically if you have US passport you should be presenting that as well.

[FlipgalRN 19]

I am just curious if I am missing anything with that idea.....In case I don't receive my US Passport on time, could I not just travel with the passport from my country of birth to my country of birth, one way flight...? (The passport mailed to my US address, could by friends than mailed to me abroad and I could enter the US with it later)..... Because before when I travelled with Passport and Greencard, leaving the US, they never wanted to see the Greencard, just the passport anyway. Yes? No? Thanks

It is up to you. You can chance it, but to be on the safe side I would make sure I would have a US passport in hand before leaving the country to avoid any potential problems later on.

[newacct 688]

Technically if you have US passport you should be presenting that as well.

Well, according to the people on this thread, it's not "if you have US passport", it's "you must have U.S. passport".

[FlyingLonghorn 12]

Having worked with DHS on some of these issues before let me add some things.

Can/Could you leave without a US Passport?...the answer is yes...maybe.

Normally the USA does not have exit controls, and the airlines that send your PNR data to DHS to run watch-list matching do not care which passport you enter when you buy your ticket. That ticket can be roundtrip BTW.

When you check-in they want to ensure you can legally enter the country you are going to (and/or through). Thus if flying to the UK, for example, a dual US/UK would just need to present the UK passport at check-in.

The big catch is DHS (Normally CBP) run random and sometimes targeted exit checks at the gate (normally in the jetway) for outbound flights, often times with portable computers linked to DHS systems and/or the systems that link immigration data around the globe (for those that participate). During these they are often looking for undeclared cash, meaning those that did not file a FINCEN 105 form for cash over 10kUS$. But they can and do check for immigration data too. If you were to be checked on one of these flights you could be stopped/denied boarding and/or fined.

So the easiest solution is to have a valid US travel document at exit.

Technically, a US national does not need a US passport to enter the USA, and I don't mean just those with military IDs, green card, tribal IDs, gov't orders or refugee documents.

By law, CBP has to admit US Citizens and Nationals. The key is satisfying them that you are a US citizen/national. Normally a passport does this (quickly, unless you don’t answer their questions, which you legally do not have to do, but you can be detained), also presuming they don't think the passport is altered.

CBP has other ways of verifying citizenship/ID but it takes time. People lose their passports on their flights into the US all the time. People present at land and sea borders without passports too (For various reasons). All that being said, getting an airline, who can risk a big fine, to transport you into the US without a passport, military ID, green card, or refugee document are slim-to-none (and slim just left the building).

(Also as an aside, airline personnel are normally very used to seeing those with multiple citizenships, so one does not need to “hide” extra passports if it helps facilitate visa-free travel.)

[NickD 202]

In regards to world travel, which is better, a US or a Euro passport, have a friend with both, guess it depends upon where you are traveling, not every country loves the USA. And its not us, but our leaders causing all these problems.

Do know if you are forced to maintain a Colombian passport, only use that to enter or leave that country, to visit practically any other country, have to apply for a visa first to use that darn thing. At Bogota, POE is before the ticket counter, just use that to get the hell out of there, bury it, then show your US passport for everything else.

Still can't get a straight answer from the DOS as to why if a person choses to live in the USA and sincerely stated they want to denounce their home country, still forced to maintain that darn thing due to some bunch of drunks getting together at these consulate parties. Sure have the best foods and luxury surroundings to live in, at our expense.

And why do we have representatives that are suppose to express our wills, but are totally helpless in this matter? Sure have a different opinion of MY country that I was forced to fight for. Those basterds got out of because their old mans were rich enough to send them to Harvard.

Do I sound bitter?