Can any naturalized citizens share recent (past month or so) experiences with CBP arriving at Dulles?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH came through on Monday night at Dulles no problem. He’s been a citizen for 10 years.

You can only enter the US as a US citizen with a US passport (so if you have dual citizenship and another passport coming back into the US CBP will only accept the US passport to get back in). So not sure why people are asking OP if her naturalized citizen DH has a US passport. If he doesn’t he can’t get back into the US, no matter who is president.

That is not true. If you have a German passport for example of course you could enter and don't need a visa. Plenty of other countries too. I wouldn't advise that especially if you have a US passport but it's simply not true that you can't enter the US with any other passport.

+1

What's with the PPP being do ignorant that thud is the case.

[Anonymous]

*this

[Anonymous]

This is the problem with dual citizenship: you should pick one and forgo the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the problem with dual citizenship: you should pick one and forgo the other.

You should delcare both i guess, but in theory you denounce allegiance to other countries when you naturalize

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the problem with dual citizenship: you should pick one and forgo the other.

this has nothing to do with dual citizenship

[Anonymous]

we have global entry for everyone and use the app and skip the line. Global entry does a precheck to ensure you don't have a criminal history

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH came through on Monday night at Dulles no problem. He’s been a citizen for 10 years.

You can only enter the US as a US citizen with a US passport (so if you have dual citizenship and another passport coming back into the US CBP will only accept the US passport to get back in). So not sure why people are asking OP if her naturalized citizen DH has a US passport. If he doesn’t he can’t get back into the US, no matter who is president.

That is not true. If you have a German passport for example of course you could enter and don't need a visa. Plenty of other countries too. I wouldn't advise that especially if you have a US passport but it's simply not true that you can't enter the US with any other passport.

Let me repeat this again: if you are a US citizen AND also a citizen of another country, you must enter the US with a US passport. In your example, the person is a dual US/German citizen and let’s say that person goes to Germany; when that same person flies back to the US, they cannot present their German passport at Dulles to get back in. They just have their US passport with them and use the US passport at CBP to re-enter the US. if this person had simply been a German citizen and not a dual US citizen, then yes that person can use their German passport to enter.

My DH was born in a Western European country and is now a naturalized citizen of the US, and has 2 passports. When he was sworn in as a US citizen, the government immediately takes your green card and hands you a passport application form and clearly tells you that if you now are to leave the US you must have a US passport to re-enter now that you are a US citizen. I was there when my husband got sworn in and heard it myself.

This is actually not uncommon. My DH’s country of origins also requires him to use that country’s passport to enter (if he showed the US one it would scan I guess on their system that he is also a citizen of that country and needs that passport).

So you’re wrong. And it’s a really messy situation to get yourself in if you did this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH came through on Monday night at Dulles no problem. He’s been a citizen for 10 years.

You can only enter the US as a US citizen with a US passport (so if you have dual citizenship and another passport coming back into the US CBP will only accept the US passport to get back in). So not sure why people are asking OP if her naturalized citizen DH has a US passport. If he doesn’t he can’t get back into the US, no matter who is president.

That is not true. If you have a German passport for example of course you could enter and don't need a visa. Plenty of other countries too. I wouldn't advise that especially if you have a US passport but it's simply not true that you can't enter the US with any other passport.

Let me repeat this again: if you are a US citizen AND also a citizen of another country, you must enter the US with a US passport. In your example, the person is a dual US/German citizen and let’s say that person goes to Germany; when that same person flies back to the US, they cannot present their German passport at Dulles to get back in. They just have their US passport with them and use the US passport at CBP to re-enter the US. if this person had simply been a German citizen and not a dual US citizen, then yes that person can use their German passport to enter.

My DH was born in a Western European country and is now a naturalized citizen of the US, and has 2 passports. When he was sworn in as a US citizen, the government immediately takes your green card and hands you a passport application form and clearly tells you that if you now are to leave the US you must have a US passport to re-enter now that you are a US citizen. I was there when my husband got sworn in and heard it myself.

This is actually not uncommon. My DH’s country of origins also requires him to use that country’s passport to enter (if he showed the US one it would scan I guess on their system that he is also a citizen of that country and needs that passport).

So you’re wrong. And it’s a really messy situation to get yourself in if you did this.

I'm not wrong. You just don't know how to express yourself. You should have said you can't travel on two different passports. Which is true and I wouldn't have disputed that. But you can enter the country on a non-us passport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH came through on Monday night at Dulles no problem. He’s been a citizen for 10 years.

You can only enter the US as a US citizen with a US passport (so if you have dual citizenship and another passport coming back into the US CBP will only accept the US passport to get back in). So not sure why people are asking OP if her naturalized citizen DH has a US passport. If he doesn’t he can’t get back into the US, no matter who is president.

That is not true. If you have a German passport for example of course you could enter and don't need a visa. Plenty of other countries too. I wouldn't advise that especially if you have a US passport but it's simply not true that you can't enter the US with any other passport.

Let me repeat this again: if you are a US citizen AND also a citizen of another country, you must enter the US with a US passport. In your example, the person is a dual US/German citizen and let’s say that person goes to Germany; when that same person flies back to the US, they cannot present their German passport at Dulles to get back in. They just have their US passport with them and use the US passport at CBP to re-enter the US. if this person had simply been a German citizen and not a dual US citizen, then yes that person can use their German passport to enter.

My DH was born in a Western European country and is now a naturalized citizen of the US, and has 2 passports. When he was sworn in as a US citizen, the government immediately takes your green card and hands you a passport application form and clearly tells you that if you now are to leave the US you must have a US passport to re-enter now that you are a US citizen. I was there when my husband got sworn in and heard it myself.

This is actually not uncommon. My DH’s country of origins also requires him to use that country’s passport to enter (if he showed the US one it would scan I guess on their system that he is also a citizen of that country and needs that passport).

So you’re wrong. And it’s a really messy situation to get yourself in if you did this.

I'm not wrong. You just don't know how to express yourself. You should have said you can't travel on two different passports. Which is true and I wouldn't have disputed that. But you can enter the country on a non-us passport.

Seriously? GMAB. Posters asking OP if her husband has a US passport triggers the issue that he absolutely has to have one as a US citizen to enter the US. I was very clear. But you misread, that’s on you. Cheer up. Hope your day gets better and you aren’t so grouchy.

[Anonymous]

All of my family are naturalized citizens and we flew into IAD on Monday. No issues!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH came through on Monday night at Dulles no problem. He’s been a citizen for 10 years.

You can only enter the US as a US citizen with a US passport (so if you have dual citizenship and another passport coming back into the US CBP will only accept the US passport to get back in). So not sure why people are asking OP if her naturalized citizen DH has a US passport. If he doesn’t he can’t get back into the US, no matter who is president.

That is not true. If you have a German passport for example of course you could enter and don't need a visa. Plenty of other countries too. I wouldn't advise that especially if you have a US passport but it's simply not true that you can't enter the US with any other passport.

Let me repeat this again: if you are a US citizen AND also a citizen of another country, you must enter the US with a US passport. In your example, the person is a dual US/German citizen and let’s say that person goes to Germany; when that same person flies back to the US, they cannot present their German passport at Dulles to get back in. They just have their US passport with them and use the US passport at CBP to re-enter the US. if this person had simply been a German citizen and not a dual US citizen, then yes that person can use their German passport to enter.

My DH was born in a Western European country and is now a naturalized citizen of the US, and has 2 passports. When he was sworn in as a US citizen, the government immediately takes your green card and hands you a passport application form and clearly tells you that if you now are to leave the US you must have a US passport to re-enter now that you are a US citizen. I was there when my husband got sworn in and heard it myself.

This is actually not uncommon. My DH’s country of origins also requires him to use that country’s passport to enter (if he showed the US one it would scan I guess on their system that he is also a citizen of that country and needs that passport).

So you’re wrong. And it’s a really messy situation to get yourself in if you did this.

I'm the poster waiting for my green card and I can confirm this is true. My kids are dual citizens, and once we made the sleep-deprived mistake of forgetting my DD's US passport when going to our home country. The airline told us before we returned to the US, that this was going to pose a problem. They made us fill out a ESTA waiver (because our citizenship is from a European country), and when we landed on US territory, they had us go through a separate examination for DD, while they double checked her citizenship. They were very nice and basically told us not to forget her US passport again. But NOW, in the current geopolitical context... maybe they wouldn't be so nice!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH came through on Monday night at Dulles no problem. He’s been a citizen for 10 years.

You can only enter the US as a US citizen with a US passport (so if you have dual citizenship and another passport coming back into the US CBP will only accept the US passport to get back in). So not sure why people are asking OP if her naturalized citizen DH has a US passport. If he doesn’t he can’t get back into the US, no matter who is president.

That is not true. If you have a German passport for example of course you could enter and don't need a visa. Plenty of other countries too. I wouldn't advise that especially if you have a US passport but it's simply not true that you can't enter the US with any other passport.

Let me repeat this again: if you are a US citizen AND also a citizen of another country, you must enter the US with a US passport. In your example, the person is a dual US/German citizen and let’s say that person goes to Germany; when that same person flies back to the US, they cannot present their German passport at Dulles to get back in. They just have their US passport with them and use the US passport at CBP to re-enter the US. if this person had simply been a German citizen and not a dual US citizen, then yes that person can use their German passport to enter.

My DH was born in a Western European country and is now a naturalized citizen of the US, and has 2 passports. When he was sworn in as a US citizen, the government immediately takes your green card and hands you a passport application form and clearly tells you that if you now are to leave the US you must have a US passport to re-enter now that you are a US citizen. I was there when my husband got sworn in and heard it myself.

This is actually not uncommon. My DH’s country of origins also requires him to use that country’s passport to enter (if he showed the US one it would scan I guess on their system that he is also a citizen of that country and needs that passport).

So you’re wrong. And it’s a really messy situation to get yourself in if you did this.

I'm not wrong. You just don't know how to express yourself. You should have said you can't travel on two different passports. Which is true and I wouldn't have disputed that. But you can enter the country on a non-us passport.

Seriously? GMAB. Posters asking OP if her husband has a US passport triggers the issue that he absolutely has to have one as a US citizen to enter the US. I was very clear. But you misread, that’s on you. Cheer up. Hope your day gets better and you aren’t so grouchy.

She never asked if he should enter the US with another country's passport. You introduced that concept for no reason. You clarified what you meant later, which is fine, but you absolutely did not state correct facts the first time. You just tried to sound smart by introducing a concept that was not relevant to the discussion at all.

[Anonymous]

My spouse is a dual citizen and only uses their US passport and let the other lapse decades ago. Stop trying to game the system just be a US citizen or not, it would be weird if your US passport wasn't stamped because you used your non US passport somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

They will be just fine with their US passports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They will be just fine with their US passports.

People are trying to have it both ways and use their foreign passport in the other country to avoid the line and then the US one to avoid the line back home.