Is it legal to enter a country on another passport if a dual citizen?

nicholasIII

Let's say you live in Ireland but have Irish and American citizenship as a result of one of your parents being American.

If you leave Ireland to travel to the States on your Irish and American passport but lose your Irish passport, can you simply use the American one to travel back? I know in the U.S. they don't do exit checks.

Would Irish immigration be strict on you entering with your Irish passport or not? Can you show them proof of citizenship while arriving here instead of getting a visa?

RangeR

nicholasIII wrote: »

Let's say you live in Ireland but have Irish and American citizenship as a result of one of your parents being American.

If you leave Ireland to travel to the States on your Irish and American passport but lose your Irish passport. Can you simply use the American one to travel back? I know in the U.S. they don't do exit checks.

Would Irish immigration be strict on you entering with your Irish passport or not? Can you show them proof of citizenship while arriving here instead of getting a visa?

I may not be correct but I think you will be in trouble. On a technical sense, it's the passport that's tracked from Ireland to USA. On your return leg, the TSA/Homeland Security won't have a record of that USA passport coming into the country. They may assume that you have overstayed your holiday visa and may take action. However, they may not and let you go, assuming that you are an American going out on holiday. You may got stopped on the Irish side too.


The Irish side, not much will happen as you are an Irish citizen and entitled to entry. However, they may slow you down to triple check your details.



I'd suggest getting absolute advice on this. If you [or a friend] are in the USA on an Irish passport, which was lost over there, contact the Irish embassy. They will give absolute advice and possibly a temp Irish passport to get home.


Assume this may take days rather than hours. So act fast.

Caranica

Do a search on here, this came up very recently.

Fr Tod Umptious

nicholasIII wrote: »

Let's say you live in Ireland but have Irish and American citizenship as a result of one of your parents being American.

If you leave Ireland to travel to the States on your Irish and American passport but lose your Irish passport, can you simply use the American one to travel back? I know in the U.S. they don't do exit checks.

Would Irish immigration be strict on you entering with your Irish passport or not? Can you show them proof of citizenship while arriving here instead of getting a visa?

If you have an American passport why would you travel to the US on the Irish one in the first place ?

yenom

I know an Irish fella born in the USA. He went on holidays to America on the US passport. He was questioned in Dublin Airport and they stamped his passport. He was told that if he didn't have an Irish passport then he'd have to go to GNIB after 90 days or something. He never bothered because he has an Irish passport and lived here all his life. I suppose this scenario wasn't thought of when booking the holiday.

endofrainbow

It's generally recommended that you enter the country on a passport you hold for that country - why wouldn't you ?