Leaving Cambodia with two passports
Leaving Cambodia with two passports
Hi all,
If a dual US/Cambodian citizen wants to travel to the US from Cambodia, can they leave this country on their US passport without an exit visa? I imagine that they could show their Cambodian passport to prove that they don't need a visa, but explain that they have to enter the US on their US one and therefore need an exit stamp. Does anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks in advance
If a dual US/Cambodian citizen wants to travel to the US from Cambodia, can they leave this country on their US passport without an exit visa? I imagine that they could show their Cambodian passport to prove that they don't need a visa, but explain that they have to enter the US on their US one and therefore need an exit stamp. Does anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks in advance
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Did the person enter Cambodia on the US passport?
Americans don't need an exit stamp from Cambodia in order to fly into the USA. You only need an exit stamp from country A when crossing by land into country B. When you fly, no one from country B cares if you have an exit stamp from the prior country.
Americans don't need an exit stamp from Cambodia in order to fly into the USA. You only need an exit stamp from country A when crossing by land into country B. When you fly, no one from country B cares if you have an exit stamp from the prior country.
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Use Cambodian passport to leave and use US passport to enter.
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Unless you get picked up in a random check and they take it as an excuse to cavity search you. Once upon a time I got grilled for a stapled in visa falling out years after it had been used and expired.gavinmac wrote:Did the person enter Cambodia on the US passport?
Americans don't need an exit stamp from Cambodia in order to fly into the USA. You only need an exit stamp from country A when crossing by land into country B. When you fly, no one from country B cares if you have an exit stamp from the prior country.
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Incorrect. Thai immigration definitely check it and care if you don't have it. I got in some trouble once for traveling into Laos on my one passport then arriving in Thailand on the other.gavinmac wrote:Did the person enter Cambodia on the US passport?
Americans don't need an exit stamp from Cambodia in order to fly into the USA. You only need an exit stamp from country A when crossing by land into country B. When you fly, no one from country B cares if you have an exit stamp from the prior country.
The passport was issued new from the embassy here in Phnom Penh, so they did not enter on it. Are you sure that it works to leave here on a Cambodian passport and enter on a US one?gavinmac wrote:Did the person enter Cambodia on the US passport?
Americans don't need an exit stamp from Cambodia in order to fly into the USA. You only need an exit stamp from country A when crossing by land into country B. When you fly, no one from country B cares if you have an exit stamp from the prior country.
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By air? How did you get in trouble? Did they put you back on a flight to LaosJacked Camry wrote:Incorrect. Thai immigration definitely check it and care if you don't have it. I got in some trouble once for traveling into Laos on my one passport then arriving in Thailand on the other.gavinmac wrote:Did the person enter Cambodia on the US passport?
Americans don't need an exit stamp from Cambodia in order to fly into the USA. You only need an exit stamp from country A when crossing by land into country B. When you fly, no one from country B cares if you have an exit stamp from the prior country.
If a US citizen arrives at a US airport with a US passport, they have to let the traveler in. No one will care if the traveler has a Cambodian exit stamp. They can't deport the citizen back to Cambodia for not having a Cambodian exit stamp. Many countries don't even have exit control, and the U.S. CBP officer won't know or care whether Cambodia does.
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gavinmac wrote:By air? How did you get in trouble? Did they put you back on a flight to LaosJacked Camry wrote:Incorrect. Thai immigration definitely check it and care if you don't have it. I got in some trouble once for traveling into Laos on my one passport then arriving in Thailand on the other.gavinmac wrote:Did the person enter Cambodia on the US passport?
Americans don't need an exit stamp from Cambodia in order to fly into the USA. You only need an exit stamp from country A when crossing by land into country B. When you fly, no one from country B cares if you have an exit stamp from the prior country.
If a US citizen arrives at a US airport with a US passport, they have to let the traveler in. No one will care if the traveler has a Cambodian exit stamp. They can't deport the citizen back to Cambodia for not having a Cambodian exit stamp. Many countries don't even have exit control, and the U.S. CBP officer won't know or care whether Cambodia does.
I have two US passports, I will enter the US on either one, without regard for whether it has an exit stamp from the last country I was in. Are you talking about an adult or a child? Maybe the rules are different for children and maybe they look for exit stamps as proof that you go permission to leave the child's home country with the child.The passport was issued new from the embassy here in Phnom Penh, so they did not enter on it. Are you sure that it works to leave here on a Cambodian passport and enter on a US one?
But for an adult, yes, I am absolutely sure that a U.S. citizen who arrives in the U.S. with a U.S. passport can't de deported back to Cambodia for lack of an exit stamp. To make things easier, when you check in or give the airline your passport info, give them the US passport number - that info is sent to the US authorities prior to your arrival and they check it for arrest warrants and whatnot. If you show up in the US and hand them a passport that's different from the one the airline told them about they guy will scratch his head and you might be delayed an extra thirty seconds.
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In that case I was going overland from Laos into Thailand. They let me in but he was quite stern in warning me that if it happened again I would be turned back. That I speak Thai reasonably well no doubt helped me in that case.gavinmac wrote:By air? How did you get in trouble? Did they put you back on a flight to LaosJacked Camry wrote:Incorrect. Thai immigration definitely check it and care if you don't have it. I got in some trouble once for traveling into Laos on my one passport then arriving in Thailand on the other.gavinmac wrote:Did the person enter Cambodia on the US passport?
Americans don't need an exit stamp from Cambodia in order to fly into the USA. You only need an exit stamp from country A when crossing by land into country B. When you fly, no one from country B cares if you have an exit stamp from the prior country.
If a US citizen arrives at a US airport with a US passport, they have to let the traveler in. No one will care if the traveler has a Cambodian exit stamp. They can't deport the citizen back to Cambodia for not having a Cambodian exit stamp. Many countries don't even have exit control, and the U.S. CBP officer won't know or care whether Cambodia does.
I agree that it's not likely an issue for someone going into the USA with a USA passport.
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Once you are stamped out, you are in no man's zone. You can switch passports all you want. I used to do it walking to Macau, crossing the ferry to HK, mid flight a lot of times to many different countries, and you can even do it by train.
I've had them question me, but they cannot stop me, nor force me to use a different passport unless a visa is needed before entry on that certain passport.
You leave Cambodia on your Cambodian passport. They may ask you for your visa to the USA. Show them your US passport, and off you go.
Unless there is a reason you don't want to.
I've had them question me, but they cannot stop me, nor force me to use a different passport unless a visa is needed before entry on that certain passport.
You leave Cambodia on your Cambodian passport. They may ask you for your visa to the USA. Show them your US passport, and off you go.
Unless there is a reason you don't want to.
My daughter leaves Cambodia on her Cambodian passport and enters other countries using her Schengen passport all the time without any hassle - nobody ever checked for a Cambodian exit stamp. It kind of doesn't make sense to do so - how can they know where you come from at your destination airport? Even if you're on a flight from Phnom Penh you could be a transit passenger coming from Tokyo. And if someone ever will ask for it, you can show it in your other passport.Jacked Camry wrote:Incorrect. Thai immigration definitely check it and care if you don't have it. I got in some trouble once for traveling into Laos on my one passport then arriving in Thailand on the other.gavinmac wrote:Did the person enter Cambodia on the US passport?
Americans don't need an exit stamp from Cambodia in order to fly into the USA. You only need an exit stamp from country A when crossing by land into country B. When you fly, no one from country B cares if you have an exit stamp from the prior country.
By entering this way usually there's no visa needed (as opposed to Cambodian passports needing visa for loads of countries) and if there's a visa waiver program (for instance Thailand) they will allow a longer stay for Schengen passports than for Cambodian passports (Thailand: 14 vs 28 days). She enters Cambodia on her Cambodian passport - again, without a hassle.
So far this worked fine for China, UAE, Russia, Vietnam, Thailand and some Schengen countries.
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Jacked Camry wrote:Incorrect. Thai immigration definitely check it and care if you don't have it. I got in some trouble once for traveling into Laos on my one passport then arriving in Thailand on the other.gavinmac wrote: You only need an exit stamp from country A when crossing by land into country B.
Well, this was exactly my point. I said that "You only need an exit stamp from country A when crossing by land into country B. When you fly, no one from country B cares if you have an exit stamp from the prior country."In that case I was going overland from Laos into Thailand. They let me in but he was quite stern in warning me that if it happened again I would be turned back. That I speak Thai reasonably well no doubt helped me in that case.
I don't know why you said this was incorrect based on your experience of needing an exit stamp at a land border. Now all these other novice travelers are going to be confused.
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Really, that is confusing.
Easy explanation: The exit stamp is only used by the country you are exiting to show you have met visa requirements while in the country and still have a valid visa.
Once they stamp you out ....... nobody gives a shit. You can change passports and do what you like for the best benefit for you.
If someone got in trouble for not having an exit stamp ................. you were being had or conned. It is no business of any country to question an exit stamp, except for the country itself.
Simply put.
Easy explanation: The exit stamp is only used by the country you are exiting to show you have met visa requirements while in the country and still have a valid visa.
Once they stamp you out ....... nobody gives a shit. You can change passports and do what you like for the best benefit for you.
If someone got in trouble for not having an exit stamp ................. you were being had or conned. It is no business of any country to question an exit stamp, except for the country itself.
Simply put.
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