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this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2024
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Always enter and exit the US with your US passport. Not doing so is illegal.
For anything else, use your German passport, especially in the EU. That's what I have been doing for years.
I don't know if it is an issue for immigration, but you absolutely are required to file taxes every year and can get in trouble if you don't. There's a "streamlined procedure" that you can do if you've never filed taxes to start filing without incurring any fines or penalties.
As a dual citizen, you are required to show your passport if citizenship for the receiving country - I have dual citizenship and it feels weird to show one passport to get on a plane and another to get off, but it's what a customs officer will ask of you when you arrive.
Since OP was never an American resident or paid taxes, he or she shouldn't need to file taxes or be flagged on a system for anything anyway.
Unfortunately the US is one of two countries that requires all citizens, regardless of past or present residence or employment, to pay federal taxes.
A US citizenship, regardless of whether you have a passport or have lived in the US, requires filing a tax return to the IRS every year. It doesn't mean that you owe any money, but you still need to file.
Myeah sort of. I never had any problem coming into the U.K. on my Danish passport until after Brexit. Then they suddenly started demanding that I show my U.K. passport to enter.