Going back home

I had been going home during the Christmas holidays to see the family in New York the first couple of years. I couldn't understand why each time I  go home to see them, I get stopped by through immigrations. Each time that I go visit them, this was what has been happening. They were asking all these questions and what have I been doing all this time while living in Ireland. I told them that I was a student. I had no idea that I was going to get into trouble. I then realized the problem. I have been using my American passport to go home to New York. But I had no problem returning to Ireland.

I thought it was really strange why I was getting stopped through immigrations. The way they were looking at me I really thought I was going to get in serious trouble and that what I was thinking about. What I found very strange was each time I was stopped through immigrations first Heathrow one year and Belfast to another, it was always the same guy that stopped me. I recognized him the second time around. I said to myself "Oh fuck". I kept thinking that I was going to be harassed and tortured the way they did in The Name Of The Father.

Basically when I was pulled over the first time, they told me that I have been living in Ireland a year and a half illegally. I was shocked. I thought it was going to be fine since my parents are from Derry. The second time around when I was pulled over again, I was brought to this woman in another room and she told me what I have been doing all this time and that was when I told her that I was going to school. She told me that
if I wanted to stay in Ireland I would need to get my passport sorted out which means I would have to get a British passport so that when I fly back to America I would use my British passport and when I return use the American passport.  My aunt Ann & her husband brought me up to Belfast which was really nice of them to do that and I had gotten the British Passport sorted out.

To this day mom still thinks I should had given up my American passport.  But I don't think so. I am thinking that if this is true and that I was suppose to give it up, then why did immigrations take my American passport away from me? It just didn't make any sense at all. That's when I thought I was dual citizenship.

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