Entering the US with my wife when we hold a passports from different countries?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 29 Jul, 2023
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There’s no problem. Immigration officers understand that people have different citizenships and passports and will be used to seeing families where not everybody has the same passport. It happens all the time. You are not expected to get a visa just because your wife needs one; they can see you have a passport from a country that is part of the Visa Waiver Program and will understand why you wanted to use that.
On your ESTA application, you will be asked if you are a citizen of any other country, and you should answer Country A at that time. As such, the US authorities will already know you have both citizenships.
If you are asked about it at the border, you can simply tell the truth as you have here.
This will not be a problem.
Approach immigration together. This is what is normally expected of a family travelling together. Immigration officials are used to seeing married couples from different countries and requiring different documents. They will process them both. As @phoog says, you are expected to submit a joint customs declaration form, which means you have to approach together.
In the case where two people approached together when they are not supposed to, the worst that would happen is that they would tell one of you to go back and wait (source: I’ve done it accidentally). There is zero chance that wrongly approaching immigration together would have any effect on whether they admitted you.
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