Dual Citizen Baby (US+**STAN) travelling to his parents' home country

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Hi everyone,
The baby is natural born US citizen and also hold his passport for **STAN and his parents are citizens of **STAN. Is it ok to enter his parents' home country showing them non-US passport and then while coming back to US, show US passport on the port of entry?

Does this happen fairly often? Please share your views or experiences.

Triple Citizen you are well suited to answer this, would appreciate it!

Thanks
 
Any US citizen must show US passport when entering and exiting the US. That means you will be fine. However, I cannot guarranty that there will be no burden on your way back as to why the US passport has not been stamped in the country visited.
 
Keep in mind, whereever you traveling to a foregin country that without "claim" be as a US Citizen, you CAN NOT and WILL NOT be protected by US government in case of emergency. Which means, you will not be able to seeking any US embessy or consulate assistance since US does not recognize dual cisitizenship, nor you can register as a US Citizen traveling in that country with US government agency.
 
Great comments, keep them coming.

I'm getting to see the well reasoned responses and that's what I expected from the forum experts here. Baby parents country allows dual citizenship and the having a passport of the parents' home country allows the child to certain rights for example owning property in his name, attending the higher education institutions etc.

I'm not sure what potential problems could the baby face on his way back to U.S. because there is no notation on the U.S passport?
 
My personal opinion:...to save few dollars on visa fee...I will not do anything which is not transparent. If I am a US Passport carrier, I will flash it where ever I go. Legality issue I dont know about Pakistan and US..and dual citizen stuff, and etc. But, best of luck...and please let us know what you decided. I am sure that will help all of us in the future.
 
Going by your logic, let me clarify, no country recognises the other citizenship(s) of its own citizen. What I meant to say earlier was, countries like the US, Canada, UK, Pakistan, etc do not revoke their citizenship if they find out that one of their citizens has acquired another citizenship. On the other side of the spectrum, India, for example, does revoke their citizenship if one of their citizens acquires another citizenship.
I hope I have made myself clear now.

Citizentobehz said:
That statement is incorrect. Jsut to be clear, according the US Department of Justic, US Government does not recognize other citienship for anyone who holds the US Passport even you hold a valid passport from another country.
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2BUSCTZN said:
My personal opinion:...to save few dollars on visa fee...I will not do anything which is not transparent. If I am a US Passport carrier, I will flash it where ever I go.
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Your other country of citizenship may legally require you to use their passport, not a US passport, to enter, just as the US requires all US citizens to use a US passport and not any other passport.
 
Triple Citizen said:
Going by your logic, let me clarify, no country recognises the other citizenship(s) of its own citizen. What I meant to say earlier was, countries like the US, Canada, UK, Pakistan, etc do not revoke their citizenship if they find out that one of their citizens has acquired another citizenship. On the other side of the spectrum, India, for example, does revoke their citizenship if one of their citizens acquires another citizenship.
I hope I have made myself clear now.
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You are correct from that aspect.
 
Bottom line is that usually there are no issues coming back to the US with a US passport. Nowadays there are many countries that don't stamp passports so that is not a good indication. I don't think people get extra questioning for going to their former country and use their former country's passport to go into the former country. As pointed, always leave and enter the U.S. showing your U.S. passport. If the airline presses you about needing a visa to go to your former country you can always show them your former country's passport too. So, in practice, as far as I know there are no issues for the trip that the original poster mentions.

Then there are the corner cases. The corner case is that whenever you go to a country that claims you as his/her citizen you will most likely be considered as a citizen of that country and not as U.S. citizen, if you end up in jail it is possible that the U.S. government can do much about helping you out. I would still like to think that in case of emergency you would be evacuated as a U.S. citizen if need be.
 
maybe it's any one of the other stans. you should use the relevant country's passport if entering that country if you are a citizen. as far as i know there is no requirement to enter other countries on a US passport and you may be better off entering them on the local one if you have it. for ex., you are not allowed, I think, to enter US on another passport if you are a US citizen - though not sure what the practical penalty is since, if you are a citizen, they cannot keep you out.
 
Triple Citizen said:
Just out of sheer curiosity, why did you use "**STAN" in your original post? Why didn't you just use Pakistan?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-stan
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_many_countries_in_Asia_end_with_-stan
http://worldnews.about.com/od/centralandeastasia/f/stans.htm

so I don't know if any of them suffixed with stan allows dual citizenship. I know Pakistan allows it, but other countries. You will have to check out with your home country on issues.

For getting back to USA, you will need a US passport to enter USA, not on a **stan passport.
 
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