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In my country I never got anything but a smile and "welcome back" from the former (or just a wave of a hand if they are not in the mood to be bothered by looking at my passport or other ID)

Being of dual british/canadian citizenship, I travel in and out of north america on my canadian passport, and europe on my UK one. It makes life a lot simpler on the immigration front. Some years ago, Rob V. and myself were going to Toronto. I was on a plane filled predominantly with british passengers, and for some reason when we got to immigration our planeload was the only group in the immigration hall at the time. We were about halfway through the queue, and it took maybe 20 minutes to get to the desk where the guy was checking passports and asking silly questions.

His routine was wave you forward, grab your passport, open it, look at the photo, glare at the tourist, stamp it, and say "Next!". Until he got to me. He took one look at the canadian passport I held up, smiled broadly, called out loudly "Canadian citizen returning from abroad! Welcome home, sir!", swung upon the gate, and waved me through Didn't even open my passport. As soon as I was through, "Next!", grab, open, stamp, etc.

One of the funniest things that's ever happened to me during travelling. He must have been hellishly bored.

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