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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]
This is their duty, and they were doing their jobs. If there is any reason to believe her children are U.S. citizens, they cannot use tourist visas to enter. This is the law and has been the law for decades. She needs to resolve the issue of whether her children are U.S. citizens. Only if they are determined not to be can they apply for visas. CPB officers can see if they applied for citizenship and were refused and, hence, proceed accordingly.[/quote]

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