I have dual citizenship. I will fly with my valid Canadian passport but thinking to enter Dublin & England on my expired British passport, thus avoiding the longer lines at Immigration. Will they allow me in or send me to the International line? Both my husband and son will enter with their British passport. Thoughts?

They won’t let you in with an expired passport but I’m sure they won’t care if you’re in the same line as the people you are travelling with

Enter with your family/party through citizen line. Since your husband is citizen they process all of you together.

Yup exactly but you will need to use your Canadian passport.

Yes. My husband is from Barbados. We go home every year. Our child and I are Canadian and we all travel with Canadian Passports but place of birth for my husband is Barbados. We have never had a problem and immigration always says to us "Welcome home"

First thing, I don't think your "expired" passport holds any value. Not a good idea to produce that unless you want to risk being pulled aside, questioned and delayed.

Why not just renew your British passport

We fly out on July 26 so not enough time to renew

Sue I believe you may be able to have it expedited or have you already asked?

Derek I checked online but it’s not worth paying double the price to expedite and it’s not a guarantee that it would get done by July 26. I have a valid Canadian passport so it’s good enough.

Sue Okay.

I saw a women get refused a flight because one of her passports has expired. I think she was French but living in Canada her Canadian had expired. Ps she’d been allowed to fly to France.

Bad idea. I’ve tried this. You cannot enter on one passport (def not an expired one), and re-enter Canada on another one. Wait in line, it’s not worth the hassle the Canadian immigration will give you on the way back.

I believe new rules state if you have a Canadian passport you must produce it upon returning so even if they had a non expired British one they would have to travel with both

Wrong. Brazil needs a visa for Canadians but British do not. I have VALID Canadian and British passports. I went to Brazil o British and came back declaring having two passports.
Visa rule was circumvented. Circa 2005.

I guess my main point is I didn’t want to wait in the longer Immigration line so I like the advice of going into the EU line with my family since they have a valid British passport and just produce my valid Canadian passport. I was concerned that they would send me to the International line after all the wait.

If they do. Then it's unfortunate but not the end of the world. Usually immigration wants to see everyone who is traveling together. So I'm sure this is common.

I’ve never seen this they will generally allow a family to use the same custom clearing line. We are in a similar situation in our family.

I know this for sure. You can join your family in the EU line and still use your Canadian passport. I've travelled through many EU countries with my British passport and my boyfriend's Canadian and he just comes into line with me. Especially with a child, they won't turn you down

You won't be able to use your British passport though. But say your passport was valid and you used it to enter, you still need to use your Canadian passport to get back into Canada. You don't need to use the same passport.

Thanks, that really helps!

Elin Davies That's what I did. BUT both passports were valid.

Why not renewing the expired passport? And eliminate any possible drama?

It’s too late to renew my British passport as I fly out on July 26.

Expired passport is not useable for travel or any other purpose

Just follow your husband in the British line and present your Canadian passport. I do it all the time with my wife in Belgium. She follows me in the Fastlane and is on her Canadian passport

A passports a passport I’d say if it’s expired it’s useless
You don’t mess with customs officers

Precisely.

UK immigration officers not keen on you flying on one passport and presenting a different one at the gate (from personal experience)

A general rule of thumb for any country's Immigration department. And passports need to be valid, regardless of citizenship. You're not buying a 40oz bottle of rum; you're entering a country.

In Dublin the lines is shorter for none Europeans , I fly to Ireland often with a Canadian passport

Is your Canadian passport an e-passport so can be scanned? My husband just scanned his Canadian passport in e-reader at Gatwick when we went through. We did the same in Sydney too. See if your London and Dublin airport are set up for epassports and you’re set! No more stamps but fly through passport control

No, I’ve never heard of a-passport.

‘e-passport’

It’ll have a symbol on front of your Canadian passport https://www.canada.ca/.../news/video/canadian-epassport.html think it’s been around about 5 yrs now
CANADA.CA
The Canadian ePassport - Canada.ca

If you have citizenship if another country you must leave on your canadian and enter on your British. It must be valid or you could experience problems entering. Thats what i have been told anyway. It would be better to not even present your british passport.

It’s fine, I will just use my Canadian passport

Sue Good idea — just deal w/the lineup.

You can still go with your family just dont present a British passport thats expired to avoid the problems

They'll allow you in - they tend not to separate families in civilized countries - even at check in lines... My wife is Canadian and my son & I have dual, we always get through with no problems.