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Dual Citizenship - Visa question

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titiung   4

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I'd greatly appreciate your answers to my questions below:

 

1. Both my wife and I have dual citizenship USA - Vietnam. We both have 2 passports that are current and valid. My assumption is we both do NOT need to purchase any VISA to enter either country in and out, am I correct? I have never traveled with 2 passports before so I just want to make sure I do this correctly.

 

2. I have 2 kids that are both US Citizen as they were born in the US. I recently applied at Vietnam Embassy in the US to register them into Vietnamese Birth registry and was approved as both parents are Vietnamese nationality. However, I have NOT applied Vietnamese passports for my kids. They only have US passports. Does this mean I must apply for VISA for them in order to enter Vietnam?

 

Thank you for your time!

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TBoneTX Grand Master

TBoneTX   45,287

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Thread is moved from Off Topic to the Vietnam forum, for informed answers.

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Dashinka Grand Master

Dashinka   24,493

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My wife has frequently traveled with two passports (US and Russian).  We usually purchase the tickets in the name on her US Passport (names are not the same in the two passports), and she uses her Russian passport to enter Russia, but her US passport everywhere else.  The Russian boarder officer gave her an issue one time because of the name difference, but she had her marriage certificate with her and was eventually passed.  So I think you will be fine and no need to get a visa in either your or your wife's passports.

 

As to the children, others may know better, but I think you might need to get them a Vietnamese passport.

 

Good Luck!

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AJ2019   58

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1) you can enter with Vietnam passports. Though, FYI if you enter via Vietnam passport iso of US the US has no record of you entering another country. Should there be a national emergency or security concern unless you notify an embassy. 

 

2) your children would need visas to enter. 

I has a similar situation in reverse (I was the “child” with birth registered overseas but no nationality) and I had to obtain a visa to travel to my parents homeland in Pakistan. Though different countries process I think would be same. 
 

Good luck, the process should be easy to obtain a visa especially since they have a Vietnam heritage. 

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