Dual Italian-USA passports: how and WHEN to use!🇮🇹
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- Everything you wanted to know or not know about how to travel with two passports! (Italian and USA)!
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It Is so fun having multiple passports , I feel like James Bond.
If you're in the Schengen area and you've entered it with your Italian passport, you need to present that when you leave and go through passport control. Always show the passport your entered the Schengen area with at passport control. The check-in desk is different, you can show your US passport or both. If you show *only* your US passport when you entered on your Italian passport, they will be looking for an entry stamp (or the same if you leave the Schengen area that isn't there. Easily rectifiable by showing your Italian passport, but they'd be more than annoyed.
Exactly!
I got 3 passports the feeling is great!
which ones?
I think it can be easily summed up as this if you’re living in America with both an Italian and American passport:
-U.S. soil, use U.S. passport
-Europe soil, use Italian passport
Exception: if you’re dealing with the airline (in America or EU) give them the U.S. passport since you reside in America
Simple as that
My husband in not American (British) and he enters with me all the time. Plus, we both have global entry. It does make things easier.
Brits are lucky - they are some of the few who are eligible for Global Entry! Citizens of only about 15 countries in the world are eligible. I loved my Global Entry! It was the best!
As for the lines, the agents who man the kiosks don’t care which line you are in, but we have occasionally encountered prickly minders (the people who move you through the lines and point you to which agent/kiosk) to to go. I learned to not ask the minders and just head to the American kiosk!
Dual US/Italian citizenship. Scenario - flying from US to Poland with connection in Munich, Germany. Next, spending 4 days in Poland, then traveling by bus through Slovakia to Budapest. Finally taking a 7 day Danube cruise ending in Regensburg, Germany. Then bus to Munich and back to US.
Questions:
1) when booking RT flights, which passport should be used for airline tickets?
2) when entering Munich, which passport to use (guessing Italian)?
3) when traveling through EU countries (guessing Italian)?
4) when boarding for departure to US (guessing US)?
5) is there any other spot at departure city where I’ll need to show a passport, and if so, which passport, and where?
6) entering the US, I assume I can go thru Global Entry
7) since my spouse is not an Italian citizen, can she accompany me thru the EU lines while overseas?
Thanks for your reply to this convoluted itinerary. 😄😄
When booking flights round trip from the US to EU, I think both are visa-free so it is allowed and should not matter. If you are booking all the flights at once and on the same airlines, I think it's easier to show your Italian passport.
When you leave through US TSA/Exit Immigration: Show US passport
When the airline does their airline check before flying to Europe, show the passport that you registered your flights with online.
Once you land in Munich's airport and have to go through customs: Show Italian passport. Every single portion of your trip in Europe should be with your Italian passport because of the EU.
On your last flight back to Munich, do their Exit Immigration with your Italian passport. You came into the EU as an Italian, so now you are leaving the EU as an Italian.
When you return home to the USA, use your US passport during borders and customs when you arrive home.
If this was complicated, this person put a step-by-step guide: www.stylehiclub.com/cruising-flying/step-step-guide-to-traveling-with-two-passports/
I do not think your spouse can accompany you through the EU lines overseas.
@@andytaquechel6933 Thank you for the detailed response and the link.
This is whole lot harder if you have different names in different passports, as happens when you get citizenship in Spain.
You can go through the American and permanent resident line if your spouse is an Italian and doesn't have citizenship in the us. Same thing if you are travelling with a member of your family that is not an us citizen you can use the American line as long as you guys are together, simply go through the line you choose and if they ask you say American. Officers don't care. I have done it so many times.
I learned this, thank you! The agents don’t care but I had been asking the minders/line organizers and some of them told me we couldn’t use the American line. I just stopped asking and now we head straight to the American line! 😊
@@umbriaabove8015 I do the same!
@@goreculture thank you for sharing!
Australia HAD jus soli until August 20, 1986. Since then, I don't know which country uses jus soli anymore.
I have dual citizenship with Portugal. Been curious about how all this works. So when I check in at US airport going to Europe (Portugal) I present my US passport the whole way through. When I get to the first EU country on my journey I go through passport control with the EU line to get in. Upon my return I use my US passport again at the EU airport and since I have global entry go through that upon returning to US. Did I follow correctly?
Yes that works - the only reason that wouldn’t work on your outbound from the US airport headed to EU is if the destination country “Portugal” had some restrictions in place.
For example during COVID, only Italians could enter Italy with a few exceptions.
If we hadn’t shown our Italian passports at the US airport, we would not have been able to board the plane for Italy.
Of course that is an extreme exception but a recent one.
My interpretation is from my American front door to the front door of the departure plane bound for Italy I use my American passport. Upon departure of the plane somewhere in the sky I magically become Italian and from plane landing to the front door of my Italian accommodation I use the Italian passport. When flying the return leg I leave as an Italian and magically transform back into an American.
This is mostly true - the only exception I would add, which existed during COVID, is that Americans were not allowed to enter Italy, so I was required by the airlines to leave America presenting my Italian passport as proof I could enter Italy.
I also generally present my Italian passport when flying towards Italy.
What Judith said is what I’ve heard but itks not what the video is saying. The video is saying that you stay American if you start out as American.
I guess you meant, for Italians who don't have American visas, cause Italians don't normally have US passports
Right, a US passport holder and a non-US passport holder without visa.
Italians typical enter on an ESTA which is a way the US offers to enter without a visa.
We are actually thinking about applying for a visa for him because we travel so often to the US and we want to avoid any possible problems.
She needs to get Global Entry back...hubby can read a book on the other line. Any reason he wouldn't be able to get US citizenship through her?
I have America, Canada, and Djibouti
If I am going soon to Albania, that is not in the EC, should use my American passport, but what about the transfer flight in Frankfurt, should use my Spanish due to the line or is not necessary.
What a fun question! As I'm only experienced in the EU and the USA, I probably can't help you much other than to say in Frankfurt use your Spanish passport for sure. For entry into Albania, you should probably do some research on the pros/cons of using an American vs Eu passport. Good luck!
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