going outside USA with an USA passport & European passport

[daphne2109 0]

First of all Happy New Year to all VJs people.

I would like to get some feedback from people who became USA citizens and kept also their European citizenship (where in some countries is acceptable)and went back to their country leaving USA with the USA passport, and entering their own country with the European passport. How was it? What do u suggest accordingly to your personal experience?

Tks all!!!!:-)

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Is that a trick question?

Unless your "old" country automatically revoked your citizenship when you became a US citizen, I don't see the problem. Is is the inconvenience of carrying the second passport you are concerned about or are you embarrassed that people from one country would find out that you are also a citizenship of another country?

Perhaps you want to know the sequence of when and where to show which passport? If so, you enter and leave a country of which you are a citizen of with that country's passport. At all other counties you can choose which one you use. This concerns the border/immigration only, not the airline personel, of course.

Leaving from US, show US passport to CBP/TSA. Entering Italy, show Italian passport.

Leaving Italy, show Italian passport. Entering US, show US passport.

Edited January 2, 2011 by Just Bob

[CVB 18]

First of all Happy New Year to all VJs people.

I would like to get some feedback from people who became USA citizens and kept also their European citizenship (where in some countries is acceptable)and went back to their country leaving USA with the USA passport, and entering their own country with the European passport. How was it? What do u suggest accordingly to your personal experience?

Tks all!!!!:-)

I don't understand the question either. By becoming American you don't lose your old citizenship or any rights that come with it, as long of course that you're allowed to keep your old citizenship. When I go to Belgium with my European passport, for the authorities, I'm a Belgian. Nothing else. They don't care about my American citizenship and I don't worry about it. Just show them your passport of origin and it's fine. You're still one of them. Nothing changed. You still have the same rights as you had before... You even can go live there. No questions will be asked.

Edited January 2, 2011 by CVB

[daphne2109 0]

Tks for yr replies!!!!!!!

[NickD 203]

Varies considerably from country to country, Colombia wouldn't let my wife enter their country with her US passport because her place of birth is listed in Colombia. We got around that, but was a hell of a time to learn that.

Have to go to the Department of State website and read all that fine print about the country you intend to visit. First thing that comes to mind, is who in the hell wrote all this stuff. Second thing that comes to mind is the DOS is a different agency than the USCIS, and while the USCIS says you are a US citizen just like you were born here, the DOS has an entirely different outlook on this subject. Further reading is intended to scare the hell out of you for even wanting to visit that country, but if you were born and raised there, do have a different outlook on the actual conditions.

Another difference between the USCIS and DOS, the former list your former country of naturalization were the latter list your place of birth. Was pointed out that the crowd in Times Square for New Years Eve was larger than 65 of the 200 some odd countries in this world. If you came from one of those countries, finding work there is like moving from state to state here, even more confusion. Don't even bring up these issues with your leaders, while they created these agencies, really don't have the slightest idea of what the hell they are doing. Worse yet, they don't care.

One agency the USCIS really cares about is your dealings with the IRS. When as a natural born US citizen, begin to realize you are not just dealing with the USCIS, but the DOS as well. And how the DOS works is highly dependent on the current administration as to which countries are favored. Kind of screwed now if partitioning for a family member in Latin America, current administration is far more interested in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa and doesn't give a damned about Latin America.

One thing that does work to get into a foreign country with a US passport is to have a couple of pieces of paper stuck inside your passport with a photo of Benjamin Franklin on it. Also works for leaving that country.

Really hate to be negative on this subject, but learned the hard way, when the USCIS says you are a US citizen just like you were born here, that is pure BS. For one thing, don't even think about running for president, odds of that happening are nil, but its all that other stuff that can be a minor inconvenience.

[Udella&Wiz 325]

Tks for yr replies!!!!!!!

Are you basically asking what's it like to carry 2 passports and which one people used when going back home? I think I've seen people say they used their home country passport upon entry into their old country and then presented their US one on the way back in here....now of course if you're flying then you'll need to ensure you use the same passport as you noted when ordering the plane ticket