Using two UK passports

[Darkle]

I just read the insightful take in the forum on using two UK passports.

In May I plan to exit Vietnam, enter China, exit China, enter Mongolia, exit Mongolia and then enter Russia – all overland – and am about to quiz both the Chinese and the Russian consulates on sticking one visa in one passport and the other visa in my other passport.

One doesn’t want to look a spy!

And so I’m hoping that Mongolia will function as a sufficient buffer.

Any input welcome from anyone with any similar experience at all.

Many thanks.

[davefl]

I’ve got both Russian and Chinese visas in one passport. Two seperate trips a couple of years apart though.

If you were riding the train all the way then it would be expected to be on one. But that’s suspended (covid) and of course with current sanctions against Russia YMMV.

[BA Flyer IHG Stayer]

hmmm having two passports on you at the same time may very well generate the suspicion you may be trying to avoid.

[The Savage Squirrel]

If you’re happy to inform both nations of your travel plans then I don’t understand the benefit of two passports? As above: there is obvious downside.

When you say the forum, did you mean the two articles about this? See (has link to other one at top):

https://www.headforpoints.com/2022/04/23/top-tips-for-two-british-passports/