Travelling with 2 passports
Travelling with 2 passports
I thought this might be of interest to those who have dual nationality.....
A friend of mine left Singapore using his British passport and forgot to check if he had any pages left (doh!).
He arrived in PP and was flagged by immigration.
"No room in passport!"
So he pulls out a fresh Spanish passport (which he should have used from SG).
"No can do, need to see all your journey from start"
After a bit of debate the immigration guy leafs through, finds an old Chinese visa which was coming unstuck, pulled it out and slapped a Cambodian visa in.
A few days later, matey flies on to Vietnam, despite his evening flight being cancelled, he arrived a day late, pulled out his Spanish passport (with no exit stamps) and was stamped in with a "Welcome to Vietnam".
Was that odd behaviour from Cambodians or just lucky with the friendly commies?
A friend of mine left Singapore using his British passport and forgot to check if he had any pages left (doh!).
He arrived in PP and was flagged by immigration.
"No room in passport!"
So he pulls out a fresh Spanish passport (which he should have used from SG).
"No can do, need to see all your journey from start"
After a bit of debate the immigration guy leafs through, finds an old Chinese visa which was coming unstuck, pulled it out and slapped a Cambodian visa in.
A few days later, matey flies on to Vietnam, despite his evening flight being cancelled, he arrived a day late, pulled out his Spanish passport (with no exit stamps) and was stamped in with a "Welcome to Vietnam".
Was that odd behaviour from Cambodians or just lucky with the friendly commies?
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Odd behavior from the Cambodians. I'm sure that if he had just presented his Spanish passport at first, it would have been fine. I've left a country on one passport and entered another country with a second passport a few times (leave the country with the passport that has the visa, and enter the next country with the passport you want to use for visa purposes).
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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?pedros wrote:
"No can do, need to see all your journey from start"
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?
Haha, logic.Miguelito wrote: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?pedros wrote:
"No can do, need to see all your journey from start"
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?
Gardiquy,
Stated "Haha, logic"Where in the realm of Cambodian immigration does logic ever come into it?
Stated "Haha, logic"Where in the realm of Cambodian immigration does logic ever come into it?
That's what I was laughing about. [emoji106]jimpson wrote:Gardiquy,
Stated "Haha, logic"Where in the realm of Cambodian immigration does logic ever come into it?
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If flying it is normally OK to depart on one and arrive on the other. Land borders are a little different as they look for the exit stamp of where you have just left (a lot harder to find when flying in)
Your friend just made the mistake of showing the full one, if he had went up with the empty one straight away there would probably be no issues
Your friend just made the mistake of showing the full one, if he had went up with the empty one straight away there would probably be no issues
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Wrong. I was told conflicting things about this several times. I was there last year and they told me to stick to one passport (despite years ago telling me I had to use US passport when entering). Obviously, one (or both of them) didn't know what they were talking about.Miguelito wrote: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?pedros wrote:
"No can do, need to see all your journey from start"
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?
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That's pretty surprising a Cambodian official would tear out One Visa and apply another visa on the same page. I'm guessing if it was ever found out that could cause some problems. Isnt that basically tampering with the passport? There's a reason why you can't just keep putting new stamps/visas over old stamps.
The last time I renewed my passport I had to go through the entire application process, rather than just doing the quick renewal process because some of my visas had slight water damage. The passport office said my passport was invalid because some of my older visas were not 100% legible and thus it was declared invald. There was hardly any water, just a few smudges really. They said an altered or damaged passport is one and the same.
The last time I renewed my passport I had to go through the entire application process, rather than just doing the quick renewal process because some of my visas had slight water damage. The passport office said my passport was invalid because some of my older visas were not 100% legible and thus it was declared invald. There was hardly any water, just a few smudges really. They said an altered or damaged passport is one and the same.
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Never had that problem, exit and arrive on my Cambodian passport, use my other for entering and leaving any country outside of ASEAN.pedros wrote:
"No can do, need to see all your journey from start"
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Young and dumb inexperienced immigration officers. I did it in Macau.pedros wrote:I thought this might be of interest to those who have dual nationality.....
A friend of mine left Singapore using his British passport and forgot to check if he had any pages left (doh!).
He arrived in PP and was flagged by immigration.
"No room in passport!"
So he pulls out a fresh Spanish passport (which he should have used from SG).
"No can do, need to see all your journey from start"
After a bit of debate the immigration guy leafs through, finds an old Chinese visa which was coming unstuck, pulled it out and slapped a Cambodian visa in.
A few days later, matey flies on to Vietnam, despite his evening flight being cancelled, he arrived a day late, pulled out his Spanish passport (with no exit stamps) and was stamped in with a "Welcome to Vietnam".
Was that odd behaviour from Cambodians or just lucky with the friendly commies?
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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.Miguelito wrote: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?pedros wrote:
"No can do, need to see all your journey from start"
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?
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.
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got stamped into VN once . i stupidly got both passports out, couldnt remember which one.
Anyhow, bus driver got a call, got booted of the bus and put on one going back to the border, apologies then other passport stamped. pad for another minibus for me. nice guy, rookie
Anyhow, bus driver got a call, got booted of the bus and put on one going back to the border, apologies then other passport stamped. pad for another minibus for me. nice guy, rookie
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