Dual Citizen CAD & NZ

[Lilsalmon]

Hi All,

 

Complicated Question- we are moving from Vancouver to Auckland and taking a Princess Cruise to relocated. I have a Canadian Passport with PR Visa. My Husband and Child have both Canadian and New Zealand Passports. Princess only allows one passport to be registered. We do have US ports of call on the cruise. I am wondering if anyone here will know of Princess Cruises will deny boarding if my family registers their Canadian passports without a NZeTA (as they don’t need one because they are citizens)? 
 

I'm currently on hold with Princess’s Visa Center to ask but I am not sure they are the correct entity to ask. My Cruise Coordinator doesn’t know. 
 

Ideally my husband and son can travel with Princess on their Canadian passports and simply use their NZ passports upon entry into New Zealand. Alternatively they they can travel on their NZ passports and obtain an ESTA for the US ports of call, but hoping to not have to do that. 
 

our cruise leaves Vancouver and heads to Seattle, Hawaii, Tahiti, Tauranga (NZ) and then Auckland (were we will be living). I think also have a stop in Tauranga on a Canadian passport without an NZeTa might pose a problem?
 

Anyone here have experience with this? Or know who at Princess I can talk to?

 

Thanks!

[Essiesmom]

There is also a board here for OZ/NZ cruisers, and they might have some thoughts for you there.  It is much further down the main boards page.  EM

[middlehaitch]

I think this link may help you with some of your questions. 

Basically, those with NZ passports should travel on those passports.

Also, if they left Canada on Princess using their Canadian passports but tried entering NZ using their NZ passports they would be flagged at immigration  as they would not be on the Princess immigration manifest under the correct country. That could get really complex. 

(Dual citizens of Canada have to enter using their Canadian passports to enter the country, just an aside)

 

https://www.immigration.govt.nz/knowledgebase/kb-question/kb-question-1170#:~:text=This particularly concerns New Zealand,Endorsement in your foreign passport.

 

Cheers, h. 

[fruitmachine]

4 hours ago, middlehaitch said:

I think this link may help you with some of your questions. 

Basically, those with NZ passports should travel on those passports.

Also, if they left Canada on Princess using their Canadian passports but tried entering NZ using their NZ passports they would be flagged at immigration  as they would not be on the Princess immigration manifest under the correct country. That could get really complex. 

(Dual citizens of Canada have to enter using their Canadian passports to enter the country, just an aside)

 

https://www.immigration.govt.nz/knowledgebase/kb-question/kb-question-1170#:~:text=This particularly concerns New Zealand,Endorsement in your foreign passport.

 

Cheers, h. 

Complications of the OP's scenario aside, that NZ link - if the instructions are followed as written - would mean that a dual national could never use their second nationality to enter that country.  It says that you have to use the same passport at both ends of a single journey and have to leave and enter on the same passport.  

 

Something doesn't stack up!

[Lilsalmon]

Thanks for your reply's! I had confirmation from Princess Cruises that they'd need whatever passport they are travelling on to have the proper entry requirements to be allowed to board the ship. So I have registered with their NZ passports and will be getting the ESTA for the US ports. 

 

As for entering NZ on a NZ passport- yes you need to enter on a Kiwi passport to be deemed in the country as a kiwi. Similar to the USA. If we were flying we'd use their Canadian passports to check in but use their NZ passports to enter New Zealand. 

 

Cheers!

[fruitmachine]

5 hours ago, Lilsalmon said:

Similar to the USA. If we were flying we'd use their Canadian passports to check in but use their NZ passports to enter New Zealand. 

That makes complete sense to me, but is the opposite of the advice in the NZ immigration link: "For example, if you are entering New Zealand on an Australian passport, you need to show that same passport when leaving New Zealand and entering your country of destination." 

 

It shows that personal experience trumps what someone has written on a web page!

[Lilsalmon]

You are right! As if anyone is doing that. I think someone needs to proof read that page 😆