Passports
Oct 24th 2019, 4:27 pm
#1
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Passports
Hi Everyone
Well get to do my oath ceremony tomorrow, had to wait about two months for the date and finally arrived here in Phoenix.
What I want to know is do I keep my British passport or just use the American one, is there any benefit for the British one, when I travel home I know the wife will have her American passport and if I use my Brit one to go home with then we will have to stand in separate lines at passport control, unless things have changed back home.
So what are the benefits of keeping my Brit one, if there is one.
Thanks.
Well get to do my oath ceremony tomorrow, had to wait about two months for the date and finally arrived here in Phoenix.
What I want to know is do I keep my British passport or just use the American one, is there any benefit for the British one, when I travel home I know the wife will have her American passport and if I use my Brit one to go home with then we will have to stand in separate lines at passport control, unless things have changed back home.
So what are the benefits of keeping my Brit one, if there is one.
Thanks.
Oct 24th 2019, 4:43 pm
#2
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Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 2,854
Re: Passports
Hi Everyone
Well get to do my oath ceremony tomorrow, had to wait about two months for the date and finally arrived here in Phoenix.
What I want to know is do I keep my British passport or just use the American one, is there any benefit for the British one, when I travel home I know the wife will have her American passport and if I use my Brit one to go home with then we will have to stand in separate lines at passport control, unless things have changed back home.
So what are the benefits of keeping my Brit one, if there is one.
Thanks.
Well get to do my oath ceremony tomorrow, had to wait about two months for the date and finally arrived here in Phoenix.
What I want to know is do I keep my British passport or just use the American one, is there any benefit for the British one, when I travel home I know the wife will have her American passport and if I use my Brit one to go home with then we will have to stand in separate lines at passport control, unless things have changed back home.
So what are the benefits of keeping my Brit one, if there is one.
Thanks.
Oct 24th 2019, 11:19 pm
#3
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Re: Passports
I have kept all of mine current, I still take my wife and kids in the British citizen line if the premium line looks to long or full of people who may take more processing time, although it’s harder with all the automated gates, as you need to get to see a person. The main advantages are that some countries have different visa rules for different citizenships. When deciding which one to ensure a country on it’s best to understand which would best be able to help you if an issue happened rather than just cheapest visa...
Oct 24th 2019, 11:33 pm
#4
Joined: Feb 2012
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Re: Passports
Travelling in and out of the US will require your US passport. Since US citizens can now avail themselves of the ePassport gates at the UK border there's less incentive to maintain a British passport for short trips to the UK. A British passport can be useful for travelling to certain countries where British citizens enjoy visa-free access and US citizens - Brazil has already been mentioned as an example - and if you anticipate a potential need to return to the UK longer term at short notice, e.g. to care for elderly parents.
Oct 27th 2019, 12:18 pm
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Re: Passports
I knew I had see a list for this:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/h...ntl/index.html
would be nice if there was somewhere to query the list with multiple passports to see the coverage with a combination rather than 1.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/h...ntl/index.html
would be nice if there was somewhere to query the list with multiple passports to see the coverage with a combination rather than 1.
Oct 28th 2019, 2:21 am
#6
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Location: Not in Paris
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Re: Passports
I knew I had see a list for this:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/h...ntl/index.html
would be nice if there was somewhere to query the list with multiple passports to see the coverage with a combination rather than 1.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/h...ntl/index.html
would be nice if there was somewhere to query the list with multiple passports to see the coverage with a combination rather than 1.
Oct 31st 2019, 7:26 pm
#7
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Joined: Sep 2010
Location: Sleepy Hollow, New York
Posts: 2,536
Re: Passports
I knew I had see a list for this:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/h...ntl/index.html
would be nice if there was somewhere to query the list with multiple passports to see the coverage with a combination rather than 1.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/h...ntl/index.html
would be nice if there was somewhere to query the list with multiple passports to see the coverage with a combination rather than 1.
Oct 31st 2019, 8:58 pm
#8
Joined: Feb 2012
Location: Not in Paris
Posts: 18,192
Re: Passports
There is. It's called TIMATIC and is used by the airlines to check travellers' documents validity for their journeys. It's what they use to decide whether to let you board or not. There's quite a few public portals to it, such as https://skyteam.traveldoc.aero/
