That's interesting because since completing mine I haven't once arrived on my UK passport and have always gone through, generally it asks me to speak to an agent but that just takes a few seconds each time.
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Do you have an AU visa and/or UK esta?
I always applied for the ESTA against my AU passport
Okay. Me too. This isn't necessarily directed at you but for for everyone who is using a UK Passport - presumably a valid one - to access the GE Programme but then enters the US on an Aussie passport
I always enter on my UK passport and leave on whichever one is needed for the destination.
Not according to their answering machine message. But who knows...
Good to know! I ended up booking trip next month via LAX, with ample layover time. This is on the Sunday after thanksgiving so hopefully they haven't taken the whole long weekend off.
For me it's just going to be the convenience of not bringing two passports with me.
TSA Precheck seems to works for me on my AU passport. Have used it 4 or so times domestically since getting GE and never a question raised by the TSA agents scanning ID in the TSA Pre queue so if the details for the KTN are actually checked against my AU passport, it all seems to work OK with the TTP system.
Yes, I just checked in some some domestic AA flights and got the tick. I don't think it's linked to your passport, however, but to your TTP profile. Passport is just the only form of TSA-accepted ID that most non-residents would have in the US. I use my state ID at TSA.
My visa is in my Australian passport. That is the document I have to enter on for work. I can't enter on a UK PP+ESTA because it's not a working visa. Still trying to figure if I can enter on UK PP+AU Visa.
My understanding (though I haven’t tried it) is that you cannot checkin for a flight to Australia with a British passport if you are dual citizen as you have no ‘visa’ attached to your British passport so they they can’t validate your entitlement to travel to/return to Australia?
Correct. You’d have to carry both passports as you can’t have an Australian visa in a UK passport if you’re a dual citizen that has been issued an AU passport (or until the Visa expires). You’ll be expected to enter/exit Australia on the AU passport.
My UK passport is the one attached to my profiles with both BA & SQ. I check-in on flights to Australia with my UK passport. The staff will often, but not always ask to see my Aussie passport for a ‘visa’ check. I arrive in Australia on my Australian passport (obviously)
Not quite. For the reasons stated above, I always leave Australia using my UK passport at the automated gates. In fact if I try to use the Aussie one the barrier doors won’t open and an immigration dude comes over and his first question will be “do you have two passports?”. You must use the one that you used in the booking profile with the airline. As a dual national, the passports should be ‘linked’ in the immigration system
Always travel with both, never been inconvenient. In my line of work ‘redundancy’ is the norm. Carrying both gives you options …. should an ‘option’ ever become necessary
Yeah, that's right. The airline agent has to call Border Operations Centre to have them linked (source: Border Force APP manual)
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