If you hold dual EU/UK citizenship how do you travel EU<–>UK?

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Just that really, do you have a preferred use of passport, combination of passports?

We've only done it as a family once since Brexit and left you on our EU passes and entered UK on our UK ones, leaving UK there was no UK check, and we were waved through with our EU ones once we hit NL.

This did mean I had 10 passports on me for the duration of our trip which is not ideal. Currently in France and we can all travel on our ID cards which is bliss!

Just wondering what other people do and how it's easiest / quickest etc.

Obviously depends on mode of transport, and we're fortunate enough that the DCs are old enough to use the automatic gates if we fly (very rare these days)

German here with British passport as well:

We leave the UK. with our British one and enter Germany/any EU country. with our German. one.
We leave again with the German passport and enter the UK with the British one.

We were told to do so when we left Germany in February and had to use DD's British passport to leave as her German one had expired during our stay. We could have used her ID card but that was in DH's wallet and he already cleared passport control a couple of people ahead of us. We had all passports/ID cards. with us as we also needed them at the time together with the Covid passes in Germany.

When DH travelled to the US he only used his British one as that was liked to the ESTA paperwork.

I have two passports and do the same as above. Always enter and exit the country from which a passport is from, on that specific passport / ID card. Then I have a preferred passport I always use for third countries.

In some countries (eg USA) it’s actually against the law to not enter on the local passport if you have it.

Yes this is what I’ve been told by border control - enter and exit EU on the EU passport, enter and exit UK on the UK passport. I have all our passports with us all the time lol.

What do people do if there are mixed passports in the group? For example, DD and I have EU and UK passports but DH only has a UK one - do you queue in different lines at EU passport control?

I have them both all the time. This time i entered UK with my French passport and was planning on leaving with it too. Not really thought about why.

@makeitsonumber1 yes, technically in different queues.

Dual Fr/UK family here. We go into the EU on the EU passport and into the UK on the UK one. Sometimes in the EU we get the benefit of a much shorter queue, in Tenerife it was one queue for everyone.

We're in DE - now dual DE/UK so looks like from the advice you were given, what we did/plan to do is correct. A real faff though with so many docs to carry.

Need toward out now what's best for DC as one is off to UK on a school trip in a couple of weeks. Probably just DE pass as that's what most of the others will have so there's no wait benefit. Oh Bexit, the gift that keeps on giving!

British & Irish passports here - I was told you have to enter the UK with your British passport if you have one, so I present the British one to UK Customs on arriving/leaving and then the EU passport to the EU country customs.

Same.