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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP do they have US passports if they are US citizens? That should help a lot.

One thing I am trying to do is memorize a few phone #s in case they take my phone. Have them memorized yours so they can call from wherever they are if needed.

It is scary that these are the times we are in.

Do you mean that it's scary because you feel anxious? Because your evidence that "the times we are in" are scary for people who are rightfully in the U.S. is scant.

Tell that to the Maryland father who was legally protected from deportation, and who is now in that nightmarish Salvadoran prison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

? People aren’t trying to have it both ways. They are following the laws in each country which usually require passport holders of that country to use that passport. If there are no rules because you’re traveling to a third country, then you can use whichever passport you like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP do they have US passports if they are US citizens? That should help a lot.

One thing I am trying to do is memorize a few phone #s in case they take my phone. Have them memorized yours so they can call from wherever they are if needed.

It is scary that these are the times we are in.

Do you mean that it's scary because you feel anxious? Because your evidence that "the times we are in" are scary for people who are rightfully in the U.S. is scant.

There are multiple verified reports of British, German and French citizens spending weeks in detention for NO REASON, given they tried to enter the US with valid visas or visa waivers and were not on any terrorist or do not fly list. Neither ICE nor Border Control have given any excuse for their mistreatment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP do they have US passports if they are US citizens? That should help a lot.

One thing I am trying to do is memorize a few phone #s in case they take my phone. Have them memorized yours so they can call from wherever they are if needed.

It is scary that these are the times we are in.

Do you mean that it's scary because you feel anxious? Because your evidence that "the times we are in" are scary for people who are rightfully in the U.S. is scant.

There are multiple verified reports of British, German and French citizens spending weeks in detention for NO REASON, given they tried to enter the US with valid visas or visa waivers and were not on any terrorist or do not fly list. Neither ICE nor Border Control have given any excuse for their mistreatment.

Please link verified reports...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP do they have US passports if they are US citizens? That should help a lot.

One thing I am trying to do is memorize a few phone #s in case they take my phone. Have them memorized yours so they can call from wherever they are if needed.

It is scary that these are the times we are in.

Do you mean that it's scary because you feel anxious? Because your evidence that "the times we are in" are scary for people who are rightfully in the U.S. is scant.

Tell that to the Maryland father who was legally protected from deportation, and who is now in that nightmarish Salvadoran prison.

That has nothing to do with this discussion, he was an undocumented immigrant that crossed the border and ask for TPS asylum status that was later revoked and never took the time to get a green card or establish proper residency. This discussion is for US citizens and the proper and smoothest way to enter and exit the country, which HAS NOT changed in decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP do they have US passports if they are US citizens? That should help a lot.

One thing I am trying to do is memorize a few phone #s in case they take my phone. Have them memorized yours so they can call from wherever they are if needed.

It is scary that these are the times we are in.

Do you mean that it's scary because you feel anxious? Because your evidence that "the times we are in" are scary for people who are rightfully in the U.S. is scant.

There are multiple verified reports of British, German and French citizens spending weeks in detention for NO REASON, given they tried to enter the US with valid visas or visa waivers and were not on any terrorist or do not fly list. Neither ICE nor Border Control have given any excuse for their mistreatment.

Please link verified reports...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/10/british-tourist-detained-us-authorities-10-days-visa-issue

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/german-national-green-card-holder-immigration-detention-fabian-schmidt-rcna196714

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/tourists-us-residents-detained-arrested-deported-ice-immigration-trump

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP do they have US passports if they are US citizens? That should help a lot.

One thing I am trying to do is memorize a few phone #s in case they take my phone. Have them memorized yours so they can call from wherever they are if needed.

It is scary that these are the times we are in.

Do you mean that it's scary because you feel anxious? Because your evidence that "the times we are in" are scary for people who are rightfully in the U.S. is scant.

There are multiple verified reports of British, German and French citizens spending weeks in detention for NO REASON, given they tried to enter the US with valid visas or visa waivers and were not on any terrorist or do not fly list. Neither ICE nor Border Control have given any excuse for their mistreatment.

This is irrelevant , op is a us citizen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP do they have US passports if they are US citizens? That should help a lot.

One thing I am trying to do is memorize a few phone #s in case they take my phone. Have them memorized yours so they can call from wherever they are if needed.

It is scary that these are the times we are in.

Do you mean that it's scary because you feel anxious? Because your evidence that "the times we are in" are scary for people who are rightfully in the U.S. is scant.

There are multiple verified reports of British, German and French citizens spending weeks in detention for NO REASON, given they tried to enter the US with valid visas or visa waivers and were not on any terrorist or do not fly list. Neither ICE nor Border Control have given any excuse for their mistreatment.

Please link verified reports...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/10/british-tourist-detained-us-authorities-10-days-visa-issue

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/german-national-green-card-holder-immigration-detention-fabian-schmidt-rcna196714

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/tourists-us-residents-detained-arrested-deported-ice-immigration-trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/28/judge-releases-detained-venezuelans-temporary-protected-status/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP do they have US passports if they are US citizens? That should help a lot.

One thing I am trying to do is memorize a few phone #s in case they take my phone. Have them memorized yours so they can call from wherever they are if needed.

It is scary that these are the times we are in.

Do you mean that it's scary because you feel anxious? Because your evidence that "the times we are in" are scary for people who are rightfully in the U.S. is scant.

There are multiple verified reports of British, German and French citizens spending weeks in detention for NO REASON, given they tried to enter the US with valid visas or visa waivers and were not on any terrorist or do not fly list. Neither ICE nor Border Control have given any excuse for their mistreatment.

This is irrelevant , op is a us citizen.

Yes, and Trump and his people have discussed denaturalizing people they don't like. OP is very unlikely to be detained, but it's a possibility in a way it wasn't 3 months ago. Hence the questions/requests for experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP do they have US passports if they are US citizens? That should help a lot.

One thing I am trying to do is memorize a few phone #s in case they take my phone. Have them memorized yours so they can call from wherever they are if needed.

It is scary that these are the times we are in.

Do you mean that it's scary because you feel anxious? Because your evidence that "the times we are in" are scary for people who are rightfully in the U.S. is scant.

There are multiple verified reports of British, German and French citizens spending weeks in detention for NO REASON, given they tried to enter the US with valid visas or visa waivers and were not on any terrorist or do not fly list. Neither ICE nor Border Control have given any excuse for their mistreatment.

This is irrelevant , op is a us citizen.

Yes, and Trump and his people have discussed denaturalizing people they don't like. OP is very unlikely to be detained, but it's a possibility in a way it wasn't 3 months ago. Hence the questions/requests for experience.

its pure hysteria, no one has done that and even if they did it wouldn't happen by a CBP agent

[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.

Yes, this is all true. My cousin is an American born dual citizen with a South American country and currently lives there. Her children were born there. When she tried to travel to the US to visit her parents without getting her kids American passports first, she had a huge problem at immigration as the US insisted that her children were de facto US citizens and thus needed US passports to enter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

See this doesn't actually work for some countries though. The country I'm from won't let me enter unless I have a current passport for that country because to them I can't renounce my citizenship to that country at all. It doesn't exist in their government for me to choose to not be a citizen of their country if I was born there. I can't use my American passport and apply for a visit to be a tourist there, it's simply not an option to them.

Why do people always think the rules that apply to their particular situation apply to the whole world?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

See this doesn't actually work for some countries though. The country I'm from won't let me enter unless I have a current passport for that country because to them I can't renounce my citizenship to that country at all. It doesn't exist in their government for me to choose to not be a citizen of their country if I was born there. I can't use my American passport and apply for a visit to be a tourist there, it's simply not an option to them.

Why do people always think the rules that apply to their particular situation apply to the whole world?

You're absolutely right that some countries don't let you renounce citizenship or require you to enter using their passport—but let's be clear: that's not a global norm, and the list of countries that enforce that kind of policy is very specific.

We're talking about places like:
Iran
Russia
China
Venezuela
North Korea
Syria

These are authoritarian regimes or adversaries of the U.S., and frankly, if you're a U.S. citizen and traveling to any of them, I would hope that triggers some level of attention. Not only are they high-risk, but the U.S. State Department often has standing travel advisories warning against even going there.

So yes—if you're from one of those countries, your situation is unique and tightly restricted. But that’s not most people.

The rest of the world—Canada, Germany, Italy, Israel, Australia, the UK, and dozens more—do not require you to use their passport, and many dual nationals use only their U.S. passport without any issue, especially if they haven’t lived abroad in decades.

So no, people aren’t assuming "their rules apply to the whole world"—they're just following what applies to the vast majority of dual citizens in democratic, allied nations. Your case is the exception, not the standard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

See this doesn't actually work for some countries though. The country I'm from won't let me enter unless I have a current passport for that country because to them I can't renounce my citizenship to that country at all. It doesn't exist in their government for me to choose to not be a citizen of their country if I was born there. I can't use my American passport and apply for a visit to be a tourist there, it's simply not an option to them.

Why do people always think the rules that apply to their particular situation apply to the whole world?

You're absolutely right that some countries don't let you renounce citizenship or require you to enter using their passport—but let's be clear: that's not a global norm, and the list of countries that enforce that kind of policy is very specific.

We're talking about places like:
Iran
Russia
China
Venezuela
North Korea
Syria

These are authoritarian regimes or adversaries of the U.S., and frankly, if you're a U.S. citizen and traveling to any of them, I would hope that triggers some level of attention. Not only are they high-risk, but the U.S. State Department often has standing travel advisories warning against even going there.

So yes—if you're from one of those countries, your situation is unique and tightly restricted. But that’s not most people.

The rest of the world—Canada, Germany, Italy, Israel, Australia, the UK, and dozens more—do not require you to use their passport, and many dual nationals use only their U.S. passport without any issue, especially if they haven’t lived abroad in decades.

So no, people aren’t assuming "their rules apply to the whole world"—they're just following what applies to the vast majority of dual citizens in democratic, allied nations. Your case is the exception, not the standard.

Thanks for tipping us off to where PP is from and their motives for posting here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is simply wrong and ignorant. I have dual citizenship and when I visit my country of birth I have to present my non-US passport. I could technically apply for a visa, but this is time-consuming, expensive and can be denied. Why risk it when I could just use my passport? But I suspect you don’t have dual citizenship and have no idea what I am talking about.