[em-bee]

if you enter a country whose citizenship you have you must always enter with the travel document or proof of citizenship of that country. no exceptions. that is a global convention. using a foreign document is most likely a violation of the law. (there may be exceptions in some countries that don't issue passports abroad).

that waiver document is ridiculous though. what does it cost to get a new passport at a british embassy? as a german i can get a temporary passport within a day at any german embassy for about 30€ or 60€. enough to travel back home.

[dcminter]

> if you enter a country whose citizenship you have you must always enter with the travel document or proof of citizenship of that country. no exceptions.

Completely untrue. I have done so perfectly legally.

[spacedcowboy]

It's not a law in either the US or UK as far as I know, but both countries always got pissed off at you if they figured it out. I know because I've been lectured by border-officers on both ends before :)

"Pissed off" here meaning that you were likely to get "randomly selected" for secondary screening.

It absolutely has been the convention that you use the local form of identity if you have one. This ETA issue is just them pushing that a bit harder.

[drstewart]

>document is most likely a violation of the law.

A violation of what law?

[Havoc]

> no exceptions. that is a global convention

Bullshit. Each country makes their own rules on this (being a sovereign country) and there is absolutely not a “global convention”