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Starting in 2026 the UK no longer allows British Citizens to get an ETA to enter the UK on an American Passport. They must use their British Passport to enter the UK.

The problem I'm seeing that I can't get a straight answer to is by US law any US citizen must enter and leave the US on a US Passport. So with that being the case how is a dual citizen with two passports meant to fly from the US to the UK?

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[–] hedders@fedia.io 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My wife and children have UK/US dual nationality, so we've run into this. What we do is carry both sets of passports, exit and enter the UK with British passports and exit and enter the United States with US passports. In our experience, the UK authorities don't care as long as you're legal and don't give you grief, and the US authorities will usually be dicks to you for a bit but they do eventually let you through.

That said, we're white. The position might be quite different if you're not.

[–] DavidGA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have to leave the UK under your US passport to show that you have permission to enter the US.

[–] unknown@piefed.social 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Leave the uk on your uk one and enter the us on your us one.

As long as you've got a valid plane ticket and aren't on the no fly list, the airport doesn't care about whether or not you have permission to enter whichever country your plane lands in. That's your problem for you to deal with.

[–] DavidGA@lemmy.world 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That doesn’t work. The airline absolutely does care. They will not let you board without proof you will be accepted by the US.

[–] unknown@piefed.social 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

So officially leave the uk on the uk passport and then show your citizen papers or whatever to the airline staff if they ask to see them. Or just use your us passport ffs.