UK API System for Separate Trips
Dec 8, 2023 | 9:07 pm
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UK API System for Separate Trips
Will this be an issue with the UK API System?
Flying roundtrip to UK from US on US passport, so I enter the UK on US passport. However, buying a roundtrip ticket from UK to EU using my EU passport. Then after the EU trip I return back to UK then back to the US on my US passport.
But with this won't the API system see me leaving UK on EU passport but I never entered UK with that passport? Won't that be an issue? Then if I re-enter from EU to UK with US passport it will show I entered two times which could raise an issue.
What's the best way to deal with this API System on separate trips / two passports? Thanks.
Flying roundtrip to UK from US on US passport, so I enter the UK on US passport. However, buying a roundtrip ticket from UK to EU using my EU passport. Then after the EU trip I return back to UK then back to the US on my US passport.
But with this won't the API system see me leaving UK on EU passport but I never entered UK with that passport? Won't that be an issue? Then if I re-enter from EU to UK with US passport it will show I entered two times which could raise an issue.
What's the best way to deal with this API System on separate trips / two passports? Thanks.
Dec 9, 2023 | 11:24 am
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Dec 11, 2023 | 12:29 pm
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I understand that, but with UK's system there are no exit controls, so I assume if I checking in with a given passport it's counted that I exited with that passport? hence the other passport could be flagged as having overstayed?
Or let's say the following ; I enter UK with passport A ; I leave UK with passport B ; then I return to the UK and enter with passport A and finally leave with passport A.
So the issue here will be that I entered UK with passport A a second time without leaving?
Or let's say the following ; I enter UK with passport A ; I leave UK with passport B ; then I return to the UK and enter with passport A and finally leave with passport A.
So the issue here will be that I entered UK with passport A a second time without leaving?
Dec 12, 2023 | 8:45 am
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I understand that, but with UK's system there are no exit controls, so I assume if I checking in with a given passport it's counted that I exited with that passport? hence the other passport could be flagged as having overstayed?
Or let's say the following ; I enter UK with passport A ; I leave UK with passport B ; then I return to the UK and enter with passport A and finally leave with passport A.
So the issue here will be that I entered UK with passport A a second time without leaving?
Or let's say the following ; I enter UK with passport A ; I leave UK with passport B ; then I return to the UK and enter with passport A and finally leave with passport A.
So the issue here will be that I entered UK with passport A a second time without leaving?