Small (and larger) immigration problem

[Dan Tribe]

My son has dual UK and Australian passports.
He used his UK passport to come here but Aus one to return home. It can't be the first time it has happened,but it did seem to throw the immigration department into a tizzy.

 

[pyrojames]

My son has dual UK and Australian passports.
He used his UK passport to come here but Aus one to return home. It can't be the first time it has happened,but it did seem to throw the immigration department into a tizzy.

I do the same but it has never caused me a problem....

 

[oldtraveller]

That confirms my suspicions that the reaction you get, or lack of reaction, if there's some anomaly in your record depends very much on the immigration officer you meet, and what side of the bed he or she got out of. It also no doubt depends on you: if you look like a hippie, or an imam, or maybe just a normal person of colour, you're more likely to be questioned, and maybe made to sit in a room with pictures of wanted terrorists on the walls while you miss your onward connection. When arriving by ferry at Dover once, after I got the "black mark" in my record, the young, presumably inexperienced immigration officer noticed it on his computer and asked his much older colleague, "Does this look like a false passport to you?" She hardly glanced at my passport, said "No" and gave the young man a look as if to say "Stop bothering me with your silly questions".