What should I be concerned about if I let my daughter's U.S. passport expire before renewal?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 26 Jul, 2023
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By the time the passport expires your daughter will be thinking about universities, perhaps in the US. She may want to take the SAT. The SAT has identification requirements, and the ID must be unexpired.
Her identification, such as a passport, issued by the EU country where she lives may be sufficient. However, if she writes her name differently when using the English language, versus the way she writes her name in the EU country, she may wish to use a US passport so that the name on the SAT test results agrees with her other English-language affairs. Many US data processing systems are incapable of handling diacritical marks.
Obviously if the passport is expired, she won’t be able to travel to
the US. Her residency in Europe is based on her EU citizenship, so
that won’t be affected.
That’s not true. She could try to apply for ESTA on her EU passport and some dual citizens report they were able to get one. After that she is free to fly directly to the US. Alternatively, she could fly to Mexico and Canada and then cross into the US overland – showing her expired US passport at the border. CBP agents might grumble about the expired passport but they have no choice but to let your daughter in, as US citizens may not be refused entry.
Other than not travelling to the US, are there any other consequences we should be concerned about if we let her passport expire and only renew it later months later when she’s 16?
No, there are no consequences whatsoever. Tons of dual citizen expats let one of their passport expire and then renew it at a later date.
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