jaburu

Hi,
just to follow-up on this topic. Since I have two different passports (DE & PL – both with two different names on it; one Polish version and one German) and my wife has two as well (BR & DE) our daughter got all three of them :-)
However, we were very strongly advised by the Brazilian embassy that both my wife and our daughter have to always enter Brazil using their BR passports. I'm aware that it's not always enforced at the border, however I would not count on this. I couldn't find an English source for it, but here e.g. the Portuguese one: "Se vocę possui a nacionalidade xxx e brasileira, năo se esqueça que deverá sempre entrar e sair do território brasileiro apresentando seu passaporte brasileiro (e năo o passaporte xxx)."
You will find this wording on nearly all Brazilian embassy sites.
Jakob

emma69

I think most countries say that as a citizen of a country you are entering, you should enter on your passport for that country.

mrx900

2 passports? hehee the New Zealand authorities reported that they found one of the quake victims with 5 passports on him....He was an Israeli citizen though, so this mightve been part of a spy ring?

Palal

Not necessarily, it depends what other citizenships they hold. Israeli citizenship is not too hard to obtain if you're Jewish. If that person emigrated from ex-USSR they have at least one, maybe two passports. It's possible that they then emigrated from Israel to New Zealand getting another passport (now we're up to 4). It's not inconceivable, but would be rare and weird.

celle

NZ Prime Minister had just announced that this person was not part of a spy ring.

RNE

I followed that advice recently: entering Canada using my Canadian passport and reentering the US using my US passport.

But they would have to immigrate ("return") to Israel first.

hfly

RNE, so what?

User Name

Do they? I actually always thought the opposite was true (in other words no such requirement existed in most countries).

RNE

I am a United States citizen because I was born in the United States. Jus soli (right of soil). I am a Canadian citizen because my mother was born there. Jus sanguinis (right of blood). Citizenship, regardless of the country, has eligibility requirements that must first be met. That's my point.

hfly

And ISrael has a different system, your point is?

RNE

Regardless of the country, "not too hard" can be a matter of opinion. It took me 14 months, about $150 and three tries to successfully document my Canadian citizenship. In contract, my US citizenship was documented the day after my birth. If you're sincerely curious about this, perhaps you should ask Palal what s/he meant.

König

The point is that in order for the citizenship to be recognised, it should be documented first. Those who land in Israel and want to be recognised as Israeli citizens must show some papers that prove their Jewish ancestry. The concept of having your citizenship recognised first applies to pretty much every country in the world. Nothing special about Israel.

percysmith

Sorry for resurrecting this old thread but I have a situation like this.

I made a booking for me and my mum with Asia Miles from HKG to DPS. Our Asia Miles accounts were created way back when used our Australian passport names and my mother was naturalised with her married name.

Only after booking did it occur to me mum will need a VOA for Indonesia if we are presenting Australian passports. We legally have HKSAR passports (we are born Chinese and China permits dual nationality for Hong Kong residents) and we will enjoy visa waiver if we use those. Unfortunately the name on that passport follows HK norms i.e. women must use their maiden names.

On ticketing I mentioned this to the Asia Miles agent. I have previously filed a second name notification to Asia Miles with mum's HKSAR passport attached, although I thought that was only for earn not redemption purposes. I was pleasantly surprised when the agent informed me "we can issue the ticket in your mum's HKSAR passport name"

tentseller

If there is one airline that understand having a HK SAR passport plus another one it would be CX. They are also flexible with the HK married maiden name not matching another name in another passport issue.

percysmith

tentseller: probably. But if CX/Asia Miles was inflexible I'd reluctantly march my mum to VOA rather than try and do something about the ticket.