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cazzy3
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 Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:57 am Post subject: children with dual passports |
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Hey guys,
My daughter has her Korean passport with her Korean name, and we just got her American passport with her American/English name. The reason they are different is because the name on the birth certificate has changed.
My question: if she travels, is she required to show both passports or just the one with the same name as the ticket. If she travels with her American passport, can she enter Korea w/o any proof of Korean citizenship? Sorry for the ambiguity but any prior knowledge is helpful. Cheers. |
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john110375
Joined: 30 Jul 2007
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:25 am Post subject: |
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When she enters Korea she will need to use the Korean passport. That's her only option as a dual citizen. That also solves the proof of Korean citizenship  |
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Unposter
Joined: 04 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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First of all, don't worry. I think this is fairly normal.
As said before, you enter Korea with your Korean passport. You enter your home country with your home country's passport. Every place else you enter with the passport with the name on the ticket.
When you check-in at the airport, you should show both passports. Trust me the person checking in will note that your child has two passports.
You really shouldn't have any problems. |
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Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Unposter wrote: |
First of all, don't worry. I think this is fairly normal.
As said before, you enter Korea with your Korean passport. You enter your home country with your home country's passport. Every place else you enter with the passport with the name on the ticket.
When you check-in at the airport, you should show both passports. Trust me the person checking in will note that your child has two passports.
You really shouldn't have any problems. |
The name on the ticket should be the same as the passport you are planning to use to enter the other country. Showing two passports to the check-in people at the airport is unnecessary. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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Which would mean you might need different names for each leg of the flight?
Hmmm.... |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Name on the ticket does not have to match the passport of the destination.
Name on the ticket must match one of the passports.
Passport of the country your child is departing and entering should be used.
Example, Korean passport used to leave Korea. U.S. passport used to enter and depart the U.S. Korean passport used to re-enter Korea. Name from U.S. passport used on all tickets.
Done it four times. Never an issue.
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Unposter
Joined: 04 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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TJ's experience is similar to mine.
You SHOULDN'T have any problems. |
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cazzy3
Joined: 07 May 2008
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 7:15 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the info.
Again, there were no problems going through immigration on departure at ICN if the ticket is her English name, but her passport has a Korean name?
If her ticket and American passport show "Michelle Jones", but her Korean passport is "Kim Mi-Hyun", they'll just stamp her Korean passport on departure?
As you all know, living over here things are never this easy!! |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 4:50 am Post subject: |
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| cazzy3 wrote: |
Thanks for all the info.
Again, there were no problems going through immigration on departure at ICN if the ticket is her English name, but her passport has a Korean name?
If her ticket and American passport show "Michelle Jones", but her Korean passport is "Kim Mi-Hyun", they'll just stamp her Korean passport on departure?
As you all know, living over here things are never this easy!! |
Yes, they are.
The name in one of the passports matches the ticket and you get a boarding pass.
Immigration scans the passport used for the exit (does NOT have to be one used for the boarding pass). You get stamped and get your exit.
If you need both passports stamped with an exit stamp - you may need the exit stamp when you enter the next country if you are going to use the "other passport", then just ask. No problem and no worry.
Been there, done that - more times than we can count.
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fosterman
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| just be sure that your ticket has the Korean name on it and you are leaving with your Korean passport! otherwise you will have problems! |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| fosterman wrote: |
| just be sure that your ticket has the Korean name on it and you are leaving with your Korean passport! otherwise you will have problems! |
Not true at all.
My son has flown out of Korea multiple times, departing Korea with his Korean passport and tickets matching his English name that is in his U.S. passport.
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Why not just use the Korean passport for all the travel? Aren't Koreans allowed to travel to the US now? |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Who's Your Daddy? wrote: |
| Why not just use the Korean passport for all the travel? Aren't Koreans allowed to travel to the US now? |
Because that is not how dual citizenship works.
When you are in a country you have the rights and responsibilities of a citizen. One of those responsibilities is to enter the country under that nationality's passport.
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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ㅅㅅ If you are only going as a tourist I don't think it matters.
My parents are dual Canada and UK. They reside in Canada and visit the UK on Canadian passports. They don't hold UK passports, but are still UK citizens. They've never had any problems. |
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fosterman
Joined: 16 Nov 2011
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| T-J wrote: |
| fosterman wrote: |
| just be sure that your ticket has the Korean name on it and you are leaving with your Korean passport! otherwise you will have problems! |
Not true at all.
My son has flown out of Korea multiple times, departing Korea with his Korean passport and tickets matching his English name that is in his U.S. passport.
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yes, but you MUST fly out with your Korean passport, and your son probably doesn't have a korean name in his passport does he? his ENglish name is his Korean name right? |
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