Two passport and Russia: am I over thinking this?
Ok,
I am a dual citizen of Serbia and the US and maybe I am over thinking this but I just wanted to double check. I am flying from the US to St Petersburg via United and Lufthansa. I put in my US passport on the ticket. When at the check in desk of Lufthansa and if ask me for a Russian visa I will show my Serbian passport. When I land in St Petersburg and go through customs I will enter on my Serbian passport. About 10 days later I will be departing Russia to go China via Aeroflot from Moscow. When purchasing the Aeroflot ticket I put the my US passport information as my Chinese visa is in the US passport. I will check in at SVO with the US passport but when exiting Russian customs I will show my Serbian one as I have entered Russia. The reason I got paranoid is because every where - train tickets, plane tickets, etc they are asking for passport information (most other countries/airlines just care that the ticket matches the name). I just wanted to make sure this is ok. Thanks! |
It's fine.
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You're overthinking this and you should have no problems.
You're DEFINITELY overthinking this by posting this in the second thread ;). |
Originally Posted by pred02
(Post 12813121)
Ok,
I am a dual citizen of Serbia and the US and maybe I am over thinking this but I just wanted to double check. I am flying from the US to St Petersburg via United and Lufthansa. I put in my US passport on the ticket. When at the check in desk of Lufthansa and if ask me for a Russian visa I will show my Serbian passport. When I land in St Petersburg and go through customs I will enter on my Serbian passport. About 10 days later I will be departing Russia to go China via Aeroflot from Moscow. When purchasing the Aeroflot ticket I put the my US passport information as my Chinese visa is in the US passport. I will check in at SVO with the US passport but when exiting Russian customs I will show my Serbian one as I have entered Russia. The reason I got paranoid is because every where - train tickets, plane tickets, etc they are asking for passport information (most other countries/airlines just care that the ticket matches the name). I just wanted to make sure this is ok. Thanks! Checking in the US: Check in with your Serbian passport since it presumably gets you visa-free into Russia. If you show your US passport, they'll ask for your Russian visa - for United you are not flying into Frankfurt, you are flying into Russia. (On seeing Serbian passport, the agent might ask for a I-94 immigration departure form or a green card, bla, bla, bla, only then mention that you are dual citizen). Get BPs for both segments - this way you don't have to talk to Lufthansa at all in FRA. Passport control in St Pete: Serbian passport. (Customs will virtually be non-existent as a breeze through via the green channel - haven't entered through St Pete of late but this is how it is in Moscow). Checking in on the way back: US Passport. Agents won't care for your entry/exit stamps, just for a fulliment of ONWARD visa requirements. Passport control leaving: definitely Serbian passport. Agents WILL care to see that you entered/left but won't care whether you have your visa for China. Good luck and let us know if you make it through. :D |
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