Originally Posted by
hfly
simplesnow, I think you are way overthinking this, as the situation is no different than someone who holds a US passport and who holds a passport of another country that they would need a visa to normally visit. Your online check in means little, and you would do so with the least problematic one, and then at the airport when one is asked, "Do you have a visa for (insert country), you will say, no I have a passport/residence card or whatever, show it, and then you are on your way.
That's the thing though, I'd never be able to check-in online for European trips and would also have to get manually waived by ticket agent, while if I didn't have EU passport, I could just check-in online and not deal with manual check-in. It's as if being dual citizen is a disadvantage with ETIAS.
Originally Posted by
GUWonder
ETIAS will result in ETIAS-exempted US passport users being more often required to manually check-in at the non-Schengen airports than is currently the case. US-EU dual-citizens will also have that issue more often in the future as a result of ETIAS than is currently the case for flights from non-Schengen airports to the Schengen area.
US passport users will generally be required to have an ETIAS approved in order to fly to the Schengen area. There will be no general exemption for US passport users.
Yes exactly, nowadays, since no pre-approval is required I can book a European trip with my US passport, and then just use my EU passport for entering/exiting EU. It's very easy. With ETIAS while it won't really affect US only citizens that much, for duals like me, I'm not going to be able to online check-in anymore, which is a real pain. Can't I just get ETIAS (so that I can online check-in and not have to deal with manual check-in each time) and then enter EU with my EU passport? Or will that raise red flags?