Does anyone have an idea how it works for a traveler with dual (or triple) citizenship when they go to nations that fingerprint at passport control?
For instance, if you use your UK passport when you visit Singapore (a nation that fingerprints incoming travelers) for the first time. But a year later you go visit again and this time you use your French passport.
Will that cause an issue for you? Are you forever in Singapore's system as a UK national (since that was the passport you used on your very first visit, so that is the nationality associated with your specific fingerprints?)
Will passport control will want to know (or have a problem with) why you are trying to visit as a French citizen when they have you in their system as a UK citizen?
Generally, the systems are used to such situations. It is not uncommon to use different passports because of different visa waivers. And thus it can happen you just two different lives in the same country. I guess they can match it in any case with your name and date of birth.
Just don't lie to them when you apply for a visa next time and declare both when asked.
Did you tried some of all of the answers you got in this thread and others? You have a lot of questions as I see, just get answers and not putting into action won't help ;)
I can confirm this from personal experience. I had visited UAE in 2019 on a non-EU passport and then I visited again in 2024 on EU passport. The lady at immigration asked me if I had visited UAE earlier and I answered yes on my passport of previous citizenship. Then she typed something in the computer and stamped me in. No further questions.
But yes they definitely have your biometrics on record.
lagloriacubana said:But yes they definitely have your biometrics on record.
ca#"! things getting difficult.
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