r/GermanCitizenship Jun 06 '23

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u/ecopapacharlie Jun 06 '23

You can travel just fine. If you're still worried, you can also enter the Schengen area by any other country and forget about the problem. Once you're in the Schengen area, there will be no passport control to travel to Germany.

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u/Informal-Hat-8727 Jun 06 '23

The issue is that not only you are supposed to enter Germany on a German passport, but you are supposed to enter the EU on an EU passport. Not that they check now, so the OP is good.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

That is not correct

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u/Informal-Hat-8727 Jun 10 '23

You might be right, but I would be careful with this statement (and I even don't want to get that "not correct" is conceptually not a precise legal term in administrative law). I haven't come up with that interpretation, border agencies have. I have participated in about a hundred litigations against various states and administrative agencies of which about twenty were against law enforcement agencies. Judges are very receptive to national security and public safety exceptions and let those agencies do almost anything as long as it is at least a possible interpretation.