How can one enter uk via france?

Can I enter the UK with one passport and then enter France with another passport? <continue>?

• okay. First of all i would like to thank every one for you prompt response. Though when it comes to visa issues, all of us seems to have very diverse, if not contradictary opinions... i'd just like to clear a few points raised from prev. ans. 1. Why can you not take both passports? > well i said i lost one... there's lot of trouble renewing passports abroad 2. if both of those nations re out of european union like some arabian or russian or whatever > some prejudice here? well not all countries outside the EU are 3RD WORLDS...i hold a US and Canadian passports, both of which would be stamped yet not requiring visa application (so called visa-free) to enter the EU. No judgement. Just wanna clear some doubts! My question is quite simple as my passport on hand now has no UK entry stamp. When i enter the EU, will i be questioned abt my previous status in the UK? or as long as i've a visa-free ppt to enter the EU, where i was b4 doesn't matter? anyone? should i just go ask vis

• Answer:

  YES. You can leave the UK with one passport and present another in France. Indeed, dual nationals with both French and British passports used to do that all the time. It's irrelevant now that both are EU citizens and have comparable immigration status. But if, for example, one is a Jersey/Guernsey/Alderney/Isle of Man legal resident as well as a French citizen, it's still appropriate -- those islands are outside the European Union. Members of my family who are dual nationals use different passports -- as they are required to -- when travelling to the US and then when re-entering the UK. As for holding US and Canadian passports: France is part of the Schengen area, the UK is not. You might have different rights in the two countries. For example, you could have a British-born grandparent, giving you right of abode in the UK but not in France. You might be working for a US firm, giving you Friendship Commerce and Navigation Treaty privileges in France. Or you could be a US diplomat assigned to France. Or you just might feel like using one passport instead of the other. It is unlikely that Schengen border police would care about your status, or your entry record, when you came into Britain. (Under the MIcheletti decision http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:61990J0369:EN:HTML they must recognize you as an EU citizen (and not as a third-country citizen such as American, Canadian or Argentinian) if you hold the passport of an EU/EEA/Swiss country. But that's not an issue in your case.) I've said enough. But note that, as is too often the case, other answerers haven't read your question properly.