Passports

[PAULUK 0]

Hi

I now have a US Passport, what are the rules on my old British Passport, should I carry both, should I just carry my US Passport? Not quite sure on the rules and would like advice.

Thanks...................................Paul

[payxibka 10,045]

Hi

I now have a US Passport, what are the rules on my old British Passport, should I carry both, should I just carry my US Passport? Not quite sure on the rules and would like advice.

Thanks...................................Paul

As a US citizen you must always enter the USA on your US passport.... The UK probably has similar rules, so carry both.

[msu17 0]

Both. Only exception would be if you were traveling to a 3rd country who doesn't allow that then perhaps just take one.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I have both and carry both - you must enter the US on your US passport. I'm not sure you MUST enter the UK with your British one, but I'm not sure why you'd want to stand in the line for non-nationals so I'd use the UK one!

In the past I had to get a work visa for China and Hong Kong. I debated which one would be best to use for the visas and in the end decided it made no difference at all and put them in the US passport because I nerdishly wanted to make it look like I had a lot of stamps, as it predated being a UKC.

THe danger of carrying both on your person would be if they both were in a bag that were lost or stolen (happened to me) you'd have to go through the pain of replacing not one, but 2 passports.

[BermyCat 1]

I've got a Bermuda passport, a British Overseas Territories passport and a Canadian passport. I use the passport from a country when entering that country. For places that I'm not a citizen of I choose my passport based on visa requirements.

~ Catherine

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Both. Only exception would be if you were traveling to a 3rd country who doesn't allow that then perhaps just take one.

Not sure that there are many countries where multiple passports are non-permissible; the only ones I know of are the US (on technicality of not allowing re-entry with non-US passport, which is more like a "don't show it to us and we won't ask you anwyay")and countries which don't allow multi-citizenship including own (of course, they really cannot prohibit someone who never was, or is no longer, one of their own from carrying multiple passports), or countries which don't have diplomatic relations with US (either US-initiated such as Cuba, or self-initiated but US-extended such as Iran--of course, not showing the US passport will generally be OK with them).