Originally Posted by
emcampbe
Not sure what the issue is?
Canada is the same thing with their ETA, where Canadian citizens can not get an ETA (though to be fair, US citizens don’t need one either). Im a dual US and Canadian citizen - when traveling north to Canada I check in and use my Canadian document, when I come back south to US I use my US documents. Been doing this my entire life, and never an issue. So I fail to see why you couldn’t do the same thing for a dual US-EU citizen.
I am in the same dual citizenship situation, but I generally check in for the northbound flights using my US passport and then show my Canadian passport to the CBSA agent.
I think what you are doing is fine, but my slight discomfort with your approach is that when you travel northbound the airline sends your APIS record to DHS for pre-departure enforcement and you are technically "exiting" the US with a Canadian passport. Many others have reported that this does not seem to be a problem, which is good.
On the other hand, my approach could cause problems on arrival in Canada in that CBSA will not be able to match my passport with APIS. But so far this has not been a problem for me. Of course, I can do that because Canada does not require ETA for US citizens.
But if one were to travel to, say, France, as a dual US/EU citizen, one could not do this because he or she would not be able to board the plane to Paris without ETIAS. In the case of a dual US/EU citizen the only choices on the eastbound light are (1) obtain ETIAS, check in using US passport, enter Schengen with EU passport, or (2) check in with EU passport and use EU passport all the way. Option (2), of course might create problem with DHS upon departure.
Still, my preferred solution would be to convince airlines to provide passengers the option to create
two APIS records: one for the departure country, one for the destination country. This would be a lot simpler.