Just wondering if anyone here has had the experience of entering a country as one of its citizens, but for the very first time as such and what it was like? (Not counting those returning to their country for the very first time!)

Some examples:

Using one of the BA $20 fares, my SO entered Austria for the 1st time as an Austrian citizen. She was very nervous expecting to be interrogated in a repetitive roundabout fashion (we're very used to it as Canadians) in German which she only has rudimentary knowledge of. She was much relieved when the officer actually looked at her passport (out of boredom as we were theonly ones there) and just said "danke schoen".

My S.O. has a British colleague at work who came over to Canada with her partner, also British, to live. Easy as both of them had a Canadian parent and thus were citizens. I could well imagine what the immigration officer's reaction was to the question "how long have you been away?"

I also read a book by an author named Jan Wong who recounted (from what the friends affected told her) the reaction of an U.S. I.N.S. officer to a blue-eyed blonde U.S. citizen, who spoke mandarin chinese only, entering the U.S. for the 1st time (her parents had moved to China where she was born).