Still, I feel that we need to push airlines to allow for two APIS records. This would be much simpler, particularly after ETIAS is introduced.
I'm sure the vast majority of US-EU dual citizens are not thinking about APIS and any US exit requirements and just give the airlines whatever they need to do to get a boarding pass. No regulation says anywhere that US citizens must make sure the airlines transmit their US Passport as APIS. As a US/EU dual citizen, on flights to the EU I just check in with my US passport because it's easiest and I'm lazy but if ETIAS ever actually gets implemented I'll start checking in with my EU passport if heading there and don't expect any issues. I'll be bearing my US passport as I leave, satisfying the law and regulation, and CBP may do as they please with the APIS mismatch.
Originally Posted by txp
In my opinion, the reason why people are confused about this issue, is that DHS recently introduced a pre-departure APIS requirement whereby airlines are required to transmit to DHS passport information, including country of issuance, for all departing passengers..
US Exit APIS is 10+ years old and I'm sure there are tons of mismatches everyday. US Citizens flying on different passports, foreigners in the US that are leaving on a different passport than they arrive (dual citizens, lost their passport and got a new one, expired passport renewed) and we don't hear about people being stopped.
Originally Posted by Howard
At SAN and possibly at other US airports (?), they are now using CBP facial recognition for boarding international flights. In this scenario you don't present your boarding pass or a passport to board the aircraft. Instead, you simply walk up to the facial recognition device, and if it's green, you board the flight. If someone is a dual US/Canada citizen, is this facial recognition matching against their Canadian or US passport? Does it depend on which passport was used at checkin? If it's using the Canadian passport, wouldn't that be a concern with respect to the requirement to exit the US with a US passport?
My personal experience with the CBP exit biometrics/automated boarding gates is if it doesn't recognize you the gate agent just looks at your boarding pass and passport and manually boards you.