Different Passports at different checkpoints?

[Colin McCourt]

I have been lucky enough to get an Irish Passport which means I am free to travel for however long I want in the EU. A thought came into my head about the fact that I now have the two passports. When I travel through the border controls on the Eurotunnel, is it better to present your British passport to the British border guards and the Irish passport to the French border guards, or do you have to present the same one at both checkpoints? Obviously I need to present the Irish one for the French border guards, but thought it better to present a British passport to the British guards instead of an EU one. (Don’t ask me why. It’s just one of those weird thoughts that come into my mind every now and then.
Has anyone on here, who possesses both a British and EU passport shown a different one at each checkpoint or do they have to be the same at each one?

 

[berni109]

Last time we entered the UK the border guard ask if my wife had a right to stay having travelled on a foreign passport. Yes she says I live here I have a British passport.
He then told her that she should always present the British one when crossing the border into the UK. Irrespective of what document she had been travelling on.
Possibly not relevant with an Irish passport.

 

[scotzsue]

BIL has both US and UK passports, comes over on one and back on the other but not sure which way round.

 

[tacr2man]

Aussie and British passport use Aussie one when going into Australia and vice versa

 

[Edendeb]

I use my Irish one to enter and exit France/Spain and UK passport to enter UK.

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[bladerunner]

Enter and leave a country on the same passport.
If I need to extend beyond 90 days, I'll leave UK on British and enter EU on Canadian. Leave EU on Canadian, reenter UK on British.

 

[Stevejsy]

I have an Irish and UK passport my Wife just UK.. What happens if we wanted to stay longer than 90 days? I have a friend who insists the French border guards do not stamp her husbands UK passport as they are travelling together. They show their marriage certificate with their passports. She is quite scary so I could understand if the border guards were just intimidated by her

 

[PaulW2]

I have been lucky enough to get an Irish Passport which means I am free to travel for however long I want in the EU. A thought came into my head about the fact that I now have the two passports. When I travel through the border controls on the Eurotunnel, is it better to present your British passport to the British border guards and the Irish passport to the French border guards, or do you have to present the same one at both checkpoints? Obviously I need to present the Irish one for the French border guards, but thought it better to present a British passport to the British guards instead of an EU one. (Don’t ask me why. It’s just one of those weird thoughts that come into my mind every now and then.
Has anyone on here, who possesses both a British and EU passport shown a different one at each checkpoint or do they have to be the same at each one?

Enter and leave the UK with British. Enter and leave the EU with Irish.