Originally Posted by
bbtrvl
As a purely practical matter Schengen agents don't seem to scrutinize US passports very hard. While I'm sure they have their watchlists to compare against airline manifests, even the time I flew into Schengen on a one way ticket no one raised any eyebrow or asked any questions (nevertheless I don't recommend doing that)
Yet I have heard so many problems of US passports entering the UK getting grilled on their intent to immigrate, seek work, or claim public benefits...
Unfortunately the AMS agents scriutinized mine sufficient to determine that it was expired! I will address this experience in more detail in another thread, but would simply note here that I was eventually admitted with a valid US passport card. But this was done as a special exception after a call to the US embassy and completely at discretion of Dutch border control management.