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Disclaimer: This question is only theoretical to me, but could be reality for other people I guess. I will write the question AS IF I would be the person wanting to travel in those conditions.

So, I "am" the citizen of two countries. People from these countries must have a prior visa in their passports before traveling to the other country.

But since I am a citizen of both countries, I should not need a visa at all, just to use the proper passport in the proper place, right?

Well, I have this idea in my mind that in the airports (and maybe other places) I might encounter some issues. Since the ticket is round-trip, and since the tickets are linked to one of the passports, how can I travel without trouble?

Ideally, I do not want to show both passports, and I do not want to buy two independent tickets, each linked to one of the passports.

virolino
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This is fairly common actually and in fact is often the only way allowed. Generally, citizens of a country are not allowed to apply for a visa to their own country. Although can apply as a citizen of the other country, visa forms tend to ask a lot of question covering your background, including whether you are a citizen of another country. Plus, it is common for countries to specify that citizens of their own country must use the matching passport when entering or exiting.

The typical procedure is to show passports as follow when going from your origin to your destination:

  • Origin Check-In: Passport of your destination country
  • Origin Exit Immigration: Passport of your origin country (Some countries do not have exit immigration)
  • Outgoing Transit Check-In: Passport of your destination country (If applicable)
  • Destination Arrival Immigration: Passport of the destination country

And as follows when returning from your destination to the origin:

  • Destination Check-In: Passport of your origin country
  • Destination Exit Immigration: Passport of the destination country
  • Return Transit Check-In: Passport of your origin country
  • Origin Arrival Immigration: Passport of your origin country

Given all possible combination of countries, it is likely that there are some exceptions to the above procedure but that would require a more specific question. Also, it is possible to encounter some complications such as when your travel documents have different names and one way or the other, the name on the passport does not match the ticket on the name. For small differences (such as accented characters missing accents on one or a truncated name), they will often be understood but more significant differences will be an issue.

Itai
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