Leaving US with Ukrainian non-biometrical passport, spending long layover in EU outside the airport?

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She can use her biometric passport to enter the Schengen area without a visa. There's nothing requiring her to use the same passport in France that she used in the US.

If anyone asks why she's doing it, she can explain why she used the non-biometric passport for the US visa application, and that she's using the biometric passport to enter France because of the visa exemption.

Will she be able to use the biometrical one to leave the airport, if the boarding pass will be for the non-biometrical one?

Yes. The boarding pass is not irrevocably linked to a particular passport. The immigration officers are unlikely to care much about her boarding pass when she leaves the airport, and when she returns she will just need to show that she has a boarding pass, that she is the person named on it, and that she hasn't overstayed in the Schengen area. If they notice that the passport with the Schengen entry stamp isn't he one that she used to check in for her flight, she can show the other passport too and explain why she's using them both, as noted above.

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