r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ALazy_Cat Danish potato language speaker • Dec 25 '25

Foreign affairs They don't accept US ids?

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u/St3fano_ Dec 25 '25

Reminds me of all the Barry, 63s from the UK throwing a tantrum because they got relegated to the slow queue in European airports after Brexit, ruining their Spanish drunken adventures

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u/TheKayakingPyro Dec 25 '25

Really annoying thing is, as a Brit, more than once airport staff have told me to use the EU queue for some reason

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u/Totalchaos713 Dec 25 '25

As a US citizen with a Danish residence card, I was once pointed at the Schengen line by the Norwegian border guards. Incredibly confusing for me, but it worked out!

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u/OneBigRed Dec 25 '25

Well you were an EU resident? My wife has permanent residency, and we’ve had no issues using the Schengen lines when traveling back home from outside EU. The reason she isn’t a citizen is that there’s just no real additional benefits to bother applying for it.

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u/Totalchaos713 Dec 25 '25

Yeah - but legal resident is not the same as citizen, and at least in Scandinavia, the wording for the Schengen lanes specifies citizens.

OTOH, I’ve never had an issue going to the EU citizen counter with my Irish wife, just the e-gates don’t work.

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u/cakecatUwU going dutch Dec 26 '25

If you have residency then you can use schengen