by black69wolf69 » Sun Jul 29, 2018 7:30 pm
Miguelito wrote:pedros wrote:
"No can do, need to see all your journey from start"
Basic logic dictates that he is wrong. If you need to leave a country with the passport that you entered on, and if you need to use the same passport from start to finish of traveling, how could you ever travel with two passports?
Although dual citizenship is legal in many countries, some have it against the law to enter or exit your own country on a different passport (so if you have US and Cambodian passports, you are required by law to enter and exit the U.S. with your American passport). So, if you arrive in Cambodia, and try to enter with your Cambodian, are they going to deny you because you left the US on your American passport?
In some countries 1/3 to 1/2 half of residents have dual citizenship. It is not only very common, it is becoming MORE common and there is nothing odd about it - it is something to be embraced only losers have only 1 nationality (LOL). Cool people have multiple nationalities. I have 3 passports. My children are eligible to have 4. You are right that some countries require dual citizens enter and exit using only their national passport for example the USA and Australia. But if for some reason you are unable to present your passport, then by various means you will be permitted entry, but it will require a lot of checking by immigration officials to prove you are a citizen.
If you fly into another country you switch passports. However, it is best to do the switch "in the air" by presenting the passport you intend to use for entering the destination country at check-in, but even if you present another one you should be OK although it depends on whether the country you are going to uses the pre-arrival notification system, Thailand and Singapore do, but Cambodia doesn't. In the former countries and others which use this system like Australia and the USA, present the appropriate passport at check-in, even if it's not the one you are using to exit the country your journey originates in. No one cares about that - the check-in agent's responsibility is to ensure you have the proper documentation for the country you are flying to, not the one you are already in, that responsibility falls to outbound immigration. It's at that time you present only the passport you used to enter the country you are leaving.
Also, more and more countries are no longer stamping passports, at least on exit or on their own national passports. For example, Australia stopped stamping not just Aussie and NZ passports but all foreign passports upon exit (foreign passports are now only stamped on entry, but only if you use an immigration officer and not the machines, which many nationalities are eligible to use, including Chinese even though it is not reciprocated by Australians visiting China). Hong Kong no longer stamps any passports either, and Singapore apparently doesn't stamp on exit?
The only time you need to use the same passport (with rare exceptions) is when traveling overland. Cambodian officials at land borders will want to see your Thai/Lao/Vietnamese exit stamp before granting you entry into Cambodia. This does NOT apply at airports though. I even remember seeing my 3 passports linked up on a Cambodian immigration computer screen once, while entering from Vietnam at Bavet. It showed clearly I have 3 nationalities. No problem though.
[quote="Miguelito"][quote="pedros"]
"No can do, need to see all your journey from start"[/quote]
Basic logic dictates that he is wrong. If you need to leave a country with the passport that you entered on, and if you need to use the same passport from start to finish of traveling, how could you ever travel with two passports?
Although dual citizenship is legal in many countries, some have it against the law to enter or exit your own country on a different passport (so if you have US and Cambodian passports, you are required by law to enter and exit the U.S. with your American passport). So, if you arrive in Cambodia, and try to enter with your Cambodian, are they going to deny you because you left the US on your American passport?[/quote]
In some countries 1/3 to 1/2 half of residents have dual citizenship. It is not only very common, it is becoming MORE common and there is nothing odd about it - it is something to be embraced only losers have only 1 nationality (LOL). Cool people have multiple nationalities. I have 3 passports. My children are eligible to have 4. You are right that some countries require dual citizens enter and exit using only their national passport for example the USA and Australia. But if for some reason you are unable to present your passport, then by various means you will be permitted entry, but it will require a lot of checking by immigration officials to prove you are a citizen.
If you fly into another country you switch passports. However, it is best to do the switch "in the air" by presenting the passport you intend to use for entering the destination country at check-in, but even if you present another one you should be OK although it depends on whether the country you are going to uses the pre-arrival notification system, Thailand and Singapore do, but Cambodia doesn't. In the former countries and others which use this system like Australia and the USA, present the appropriate passport at check-in, even if it's not the one you are using to exit the country your journey originates in. No one cares about that - the check-in agent's responsibility is to ensure you have the proper documentation for the country you are flying to, not the one you are already in, that responsibility falls to outbound immigration. It's at that time you present only the passport you used to enter the country you are leaving.
Also, more and more countries are no longer stamping passports, at least on exit or on their own national passports. For example, Australia stopped stamping not just Aussie and NZ passports but all foreign passports upon exit (foreign passports are now only stamped on entry, but only if you use an immigration officer and not the machines, which many nationalities are eligible to use, including Chinese even though it is not reciprocated by Australians visiting China). Hong Kong no longer stamps any passports either, and Singapore apparently doesn't stamp on exit?
The only time you need to use the same passport (with rare exceptions) is when traveling overland. Cambodian officials at land borders will want to see your Thai/Lao/Vietnamese exit stamp before granting you entry into Cambodia. This does NOT apply at airports though. I even remember seeing my 3 passports linked up on a Cambodian immigration computer screen once, while entering from Vietnam at Bavet. It showed clearly I have 3 nationalities. No problem though.