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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
Solution... enter Australia on Japanese passport. It won't matter because she'll be an Australian citizen anyway.
I say go for it.
Laws restricting dual citizenship are stupid...
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In terms of immigration, it does indeed matter. A stamp on the passport isn`t the only thing they do at the counter.
I don`t know how Australia handles things, but I know that if they check through the system and you are trying to enter the US on a passport from another country when you have US citizenship - you can be arrested and actually have your citizenship revoked.
I consider that quite risky... Especially when it has to do with the country you want to keep citizenship in.
ALSO, that means that as you will not be entering the country as a citizen, you will have none of the rights of a citizen - and will be put in the database as a tourist with applicable visa. This means that you might be able to pull it off the first time in, but next time you try to leave you will hit all sorts of trouble as you`d have overstayed your visa. Present proof of citizenship, and up the question comes - Why didn`t you enter on your proper passport?
I would say to go for it as originally said - leave and enter Australia on the Australian passport, and then enter and leave Japan on the Japanese. The worst they can really do is force you to give up your Japanese citizenship, which is something you`d have to do anyway. But I definitely wouldn`t do anything risky involving the citizenship you
really want to keep.