britmini

Hi, Im a dual citizen. British, then became canadian. My wife and daughter are canadian. I have UK and CDN passports, they only have CDN.
Question is which line do we enter the UK. We don't want to split as a family. But will customs allow my wife and daughter through the European line with their Canadian passports?

Ideally I want to enter UK on my UK passport and come back to Cananda on my CDN passport. Yes I want to jump the queues, especially after a 7-8 hour flight with a 2 year old!!

Any advice please....
Before kids we always split at immigration and went into our own lines.
Thanks.

Almost Canadian

What you are proposing will be fine.

SchnookoLoly

You should have no problem with your family accompanying you in the UK line.

Novocastrian

Personally if I had to fly 8 hours across the Atlantic again with a 2 yr old I'd jump at the opportunity to stick the OH with the brat so I could take a well earned break from the horror.

Mikeypm

iaink

UK line will be fine.

Gozit

UK line will be fine. Your daughter is also a British citizen in case you didn't know. You just haven't got her a British passport.

MarylandNed

That depends on whether he is able to pass on British citizenship by descent. Not all British citizens can.

Gozit

True. But if he was born or naturalised in the UK, he should be able to.

Steve_

Why not just all go through the foreigners line anyway, always a lot shorter. And all use your Canadian passports.

Gozit

Try waiting in the foreigners line at CDG. Bloody hell.

Novocastrian

Great advice...not. Foreigner's lines are always shorter? Perhaps, but not in my experience, also generally speaking the processing time for foreigners per arrival is much more protracted.

Gozit

+1. Why i'd go through the foreigners line and have to provide a bunch of lawyers papers saying i'm allowed to travel without mum and dad, as well as having to explain my reasons for travel, on top of having to wait in the longer line, when I can now just go through the EU line and be basically waved through, I've no clue.

MarylandNed

Right. So unless you know that for sure, you can't tell him that his daughter is a British citizen for sure.

Steve_

Well, my experience contradicts yours then, obviously it depends on the airport but certainly at LHR T5 there always seems to be a pretty short line for non-EU passport holders, at least imx. I remember going through Manchester some years ago and I remember talking to an English woman who lived in White Rock and she said exactly that, she always uses her Canadian passport because the line is shorter.

I suppose now with ePassports it might be quicker using that line, this assumes you've got one.