How to best use Second and/or Third passport to maximise visa-free travel?

[Nigital Domad]

Question from a client: What is a good logistical approach for utilising different passports in order to have the most visa-free travel?
For instanze; if you fly into Country 1 using passport A - but want to fly out using passport B so that you can land in Country 2 without having to get a visa (because Passport B allows you to arrive there visa-free), how is this best accomplished?
Airlines seem to force you to leave on the same passport you arrived on (as do most nation's customs / border control).
Is there any way around this (other than perhaps arriving with Passport A by plane - and leaving with Passport B by car/boat)?

 

[daniels27]

Airlines seem to force you to leave on the same passport you arrived on (as do most nation's customs / border control).

I would say mainly the border control. The airlines in general don't care much, they only check your passport if it matches your bording pass.

Is there any way around this (other than perhaps arriving with Passport A by plane - and leaving with Passport B by car/boat)?

This won't help much as the border control is the main guy who cares.

Question from a client: What is a good logistical approach for utilising different passports in order to have the most visa-free travel?

@jafo once explained this:

https://www.offshorecorptalk.com/threads/traveling-with-2-passports.43615/#post-285825

In other words, you can fly from A to X and then to B. Where X is a country that does not stamp passports. When you arrive in B, you can just claim you where in X last and they did not stamp. But honestly, the easiest is just to use air travel as must countries do not care where and how you got there. You could have booked SIN to BNE but who knows where you were before. BNE has been all over and so have you. Maybe, you flew JKF-LHR-DXB-KUL-SIN without even entering any of those countries? If you want to enter on a British passport, you just show them fake travel bookings from LHR to wherever you boarded last. You can do this a couple of times and then you'll soon figure out that most countries won't care how you got there.

The much bigger problem is when leaving. Let's say you are British and North Macedonian, you are in London and want to visit Cuba. Now, you can enter Cuba visa free on your North Macedonian passport but not on your UK one. Hence, when leaving UK, you will book all with your UK passport for border control. But when you are at the gate, they will check for your visa or whatever. You then need to pull out the North Macedonian passport. As far as I know, UK won't care about this as they allow dual citizenship and have no issues with this. But what if you are Chinese and hiding a European passports from them? You cannot simply fly out of Beijing with your Chinese passport and then claim that you can actually enter Schengen with your European passport. Because the airlines there know very well, that you cannot have any other passport. Hence, you will have to fly through any other country that does not care anymore.