citizenship, passport, expat

, if I had been living there for a number of years there really would be no point to seek citizenship because the UK passport is a EU passport. There would be no point in gaining access to another EU passport as the rights within the region are the same -
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thats not quite correct. there are advantages in holding the citizenship of the EU country you reside in.

as for myself i hold serbian, slovenian and finnish citizenship. the serbian citizenship entitles me to enter russia without visa. finnish one entitles me to go to some countries for which others need a visa. etc..so im more or less covered. dont need or want any other kind of citizenship.

venona, most serbs hold dual citizenship either with serbia, bosnia or croatia.

I have a random question -- is it generally a problem to enter one country on one passport and another on a different one?

The last time I went to Europe I entered on my UK passport, but when I returned to the US (actually Toronto, but they did the US immigration stuff there, before the onward flight to New York), they took my passport for further evaluation and stuck me in a room with a bunch of other "problem" people (including one poor family whose father had the same name as someone on the terrorist watch list and had to go through this every single time they flew).

The officers were jerks about the whole thing and wouldn't tell me why they were doing it, so I don't know if it had anything to do with the passports or not. Anyone else have experience with this kind of thing?

Only my opinion, but I think officials these days are a bit more interested in if you left the last country legally. If there is no stamp of your exit anywhere in your passport, they are probably wondering where you came from and if you left there properly. Particularly if you are arriving from a third country.

This might not seem like a big deal but if - for example - you were ejected/deported from the last country, it might be nice to know that and why. Of if you overstayed your visa there by 5-10 years, or . . .

I came across this thread while I was doing search on travel.. This is very interesting topic. I have to say that I have been very fortunate to have 4 citizenships. I have 4 passport that I travel with all the time and fortunately I didn't have to get naturalized for any of them.

I was Born in the USA so I have a US Passport since I am a natural born US Citizen.

My father is a British so I have a British Passport by decent since birth.

My Mother was born in Australia but she was born to a Canadian Father and Australian mother so she acquired both Canadian and Australian Citizenship since birth. So that Makes me a Canadian and Australian Citizen as well since birth..

My parents have lived in England, Australia and Canada and USA over the past 30 years and my mother became a British citizen because she got it through marriage with my father.. My father became a Canadian and an Australian Citizen through marriage as well respectively when they lived in Canada and Australia.. I have lived in all 4 countries along with my other siblings who are also citizens of 4 countries. My Parents had a good plan for us so I am grateful for that.. At the time myself and my siblings were born they were working in USA (TN Visa as Canadian Citizens) and gave birth to us in USA so we are all natural born US citizens and we were Canadian Citizens right away when they took us back to Canada.. For British and Australian they applied for us by registering us as British and Australian Citizens by decent.

I have traveled all over using all 4 passports and I can tell you it feels absolutely amazing being able to go and live and work or own businesses anywhere in USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and All over Europe (EEA). I use the passport to enter and leave the country I am going and leaving but I carry all four with me at all times just in case I need to travel to one of the 4 countries (including Europe as I do a lot of business traveling all over)... I only use British passport when I am traveling in Europe as it is the only way to travel and live unlimited amount of time anywhere in UK and Europe without any hassles of obtaining a visa or permit. So I consider myself one of the luckiest people alive and so do my siblings and we are thankful to our parents for all this..

I think having those 4 citizenships is enough lol and I would think these are probably the best 4 citizenships anyone can have and even better without being naturalized as in my and my siblings case...