Can I leave the US on a UK passport but re-enter on a US one?
You should always leave a country on the stamp you came in on. So if you last entered the US on your US passport, leave on that. Then enter Greece on the UK one as they will happily welcome their fellow EU citizen. I don’t think an exit stamps is a common thing (don’t think I’ve ever had one or heard of one). Also, you are not doing anything wrong. If there is any confusion, you can just tell them you are a dual citizen and pull out both passports. This is fairly common and in the experience of very many people I know the officials won’t have a problem with it. If anything goes wrong, both your passports/citizenships will emerge quickly and you can take things from there.
Take both, leave on the US passport, and use the UK passport when you get to Greece. You’ll go through the (shorter) EU line and it shouldn’t get stamped or scanned either way. For all intents and purposes, it’s the same process as if you were entering the UK: you are an EU citizen entering the EU. And coming back, they’re going to be more concerned about the validity of the passport than its stamps. So I think the FAQ entry is a bit bollocks; though I’d go along with those who suggest that visibly juggling between the two passports at the immigration counter might not be helpful. If anything should happen while we are on vacation would it make a difference if at least one of us was traveling under a EU passport? Sort of. As an EU citizen, you’d be entitled to reciprocal emergency healthcare. I don’t think that’s dependent upon the passport you use to enter, but you’d need the UK one on hand.
the rule of thumb i follow is to enter and leave a country on the same passport – especially somewhere where there is an entrance visa and stamp and exit stamp. for example, singaporean immigration would definitely want to know how the heck you got into the country if you came in on a uk passport and tried to leave on a us passport with no entrance stamp. where this can get a little difficult is when travelling to the uk from the us (and vice versa), because you want to show the right passport to the right people. 1) show us passport to airline ticket counter, otherwise they will ask you where your visa is in your uk passport. 2) show us passport at us passport control/security. i don’t think they look for visas etc, it’s just easier. 3) get on airplane, fly to uk 4) show uk passport to uk immigration return journey 1) show us passport to airline ticket counter, who want to verify if you need visa etc 2) show uk passport at uk passport control 3) show us passport again to airline peopl
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