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In India, it is illegal to have 2 Indian passports in your name.
I see some references to Section 12 of the Indian Passports Act, 1967 mentioning this - but I did not find any such text in that Act.
I can see some news items however where the police have arrested persons with two passports
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It is not necessarily illegal to have two passports. You can get two passports in the UK if you can prove that you travel a lot. This is done so people can continue to travel when their other passport is away for a visa application for example.
If you have doubts, simply do not use one of them or return it to the authorities. In any case, so far you did ...
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My fiancee and I were forced to do this twice, once from Rwanda and once from Sierra Leone. While it is a risk to be without your passport, we made sure to use FedEx/DHL to send our passports, that way they would be trackable.
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There are usually multiple places where you'll have to show passports and things can get a bit tricky. Obviously you'll use the passport of the country whose passport you are at. But often you want to show the passport of the destination country at check in to show the airline company that you have the appropriate visas/residency.
So for example for a trip ...
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You need a visa for neither country because you are a citizen of each.
When you enter a country, in order not to need a visa, you show them the passport of that country.
In your case, when arriving to Saudi Arabia, you show them the Saudi passport. When arriving to the UK, say after you get back, you show them the UK one. You obviously need to have both ...
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The nitty-gritty depends on the consular worker you encounter but then there is a different problem.
If you look at the application that needs to be submitted to the Consulate for a VISA there are 2 different forms:
Everyone except citizens of US, Great Britain, Canada, and Georgia
Citizens of US, Great Britain, Canada, and Georgia
You can take a look ...
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In China hotels usually "demand" to see your passport on checkin.
Maybe not in Singapore.
In China I've had to show my passport before being allowed to use public access internet connected computers. I do not know if they would have accepted a photocopy.
I always carry my passport with me. I use either
a round the neck slung pouch slung so it sits ...
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Your passport is an important document and it should be kept safe at all times. One of the best ways in general is not to have it with you but keep it in the hotel safe.
This varies by location and in some places, it is safer with you. In Singapor, crime is very low and there should not be a problem to have it with you.
My strategy is to keep a photocopy ...
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I recommend you make a paper copy of your passport and carry that around. Leave your real passport at the hotel. I've traveled to many of the Asian countries (including Singapore) on business and never had a problem. I never needed to show it to anybody and I spent over 3 years total in Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Korea etc.
Usually you can carry a paper copy ...
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