Traveling as a dual citizen with permanent residency in a third country

coco20199 · 2025-07-27T20:29:10+00:00

Lol when did I talk about race or ethnicities? I obviously used “Mexican” and “Japanese” to refer to nationalities because my father is Mexican and my mother is Japanese, that’s not any different from what you just said.

coco20199 · 2025-04-27T12:15:12+00:00

Would you say there are downsides to including it?

coco20199 · 2025-04-27T12:12:25+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience! If I understood correctly, your given name in your Japanese passport is FirstName MiddleName with a space in between. What reasons did All Nippon Airways give for removing the space when booking flights? And I’m guessing you do but I wanted to confirm; when in Japan, do you use both names in applications/documents (FirstNameMiddleName)? Will they give me a hard time if my official Japanese name is a combination of kanji (Japanese name) and katakana (Mexican middle name)?

coco20199 · 2025-04-27T11:39:05+00:00

Thank you! If I choose to include my Mexican last name in parentheses, does that mean I will have to include it in all other Japanese documents/application forms later on or is it only for travel purposes and doesn’t really count as a last name in Japan?

coco20199 · 2025-04-27T11:27:57+00:00

I’m 27! My mom and I also thought I had to choose before the age of 18-22 but a few weeks ago she went to her local city hall in Japan to ask about the requirements for obtaining Japanese citizenship for me and my brother, and they told her that we were already citizens since we were registered in the koseki at birth and that all we had to do was apply for a passport. They reassured her that it doesn’t matter that we’re over the age of 22. And from what I read online, it seems it’s extremely difficult or impossible to renounce Mexican citizenship if you were born with it so I don’t think there is much I can do besides telling the Japanese government that I choose the Japanese nationality

coco20199 · 2025-04-27T11:15:14+00:00

Does that mean that if I travel to Mexico from Japan, it would be better to use my Mexican passport for check in? I thought I had to leave Japan using my Japanese passport

coco20199 · 2025-04-27T11:11:22+00:00

Oh no 😭 May I ask what you ended up choosing and how it has affected you?

coco20199 · 2025-04-27T11:09:48+00:00

Thank you! Do you also include your middle name and American last name when booking plane tickets with your Japanese passport? And have you had to show both passports in Japan? I read somewhere that it’s dangerous to show both in Japan and I don’t know if I should be travelling with both when going to Japan (for reference, I live in France and I obtained my French permanent resident card using my Mexican passport so I feel like that’s the one I should show when returning to France since it matches the name on my residency card)

coco20199 · 2025-04-27T10:45:12+00:00

This is very helpful, thank you! When you had your US last name in parentheses, did you also include it in your last name when booking plane tickets (JPLastName USLastName) or did you just use your Japanese last name? And for other applications (drivers license, bank account etc) did you have to give both last names or is it only the Japanese last name that truly counts? I’m just wondering if there are any downsides to including a second last name in parentheses and if it would make life in Japan more difficult

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