Sometimes a vacation is to end at the border control at the airport: In some countries, a certain stamp in your passport can make the entry of real problems.
Berlin - In most countries outside of the Schengen area - entry and exit stamps in the passport documented. They are for many tourists popular Souvenirs.
stamps as collectors ' items
on Internet forums collectors exchange ideas about how to in spite of the automated procedure, nor is it a collector's piece can get hold of . "Some frequent flyers have set themselves the goal to get a stamp from every country in the world," says Sebastian Schmidt, marketing Manager, visa-point. The Berlin-based Agency helps business travellers, assemblers and tourists to their required entry permits.
stamp bring problems
stamp endorsements, however, can also have disadvantages. In the case of the entry into Israel, it is not advisable to stamp in the passport press . On a later visit in the Arab States, in Iran, in Lebanon or in Kuwait, the visas otherwise lead to a refusal of entry, the Federal Foreign office (AA). Therefore, Israeli border to see officials at the Ben Gurion international airport, as well as two border crossings to Egypt and Jordan of a stamp . Instead of entry cards will be used.
experts such as Sebastian Schmidt-the practice of holding inserted cards or sheets with a unique Israel visit for reasonable . Holidaymakers who want to repeatedly travel to the Holy Land, advises the visa specialist to obtain a second passport.
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Second Pass
Who can for Israel its second Pass , used stricter checks by the Israeli security forces to avoid . Should namely Visa Arab States or Iran in the passport, according to figures from the AA at the port of entry in Israel, a security survey. Jordan and Egypt are exempt from this rule. Everyone who enters with a stamp or Visa from Malaysia, Indonesia, or the Sudan, must also be on a corresponding Interview by the security forces in focus.
How to make sense of two passes, also, if stays in several foreign countries in visa-requiring countries are planned . To get to the documents, not from the rich a Pass, often, white Schmidt: "Who is much in Russia, USA and China on-the-go, often even three or four passes."
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For a second travel document must be demonstrated in accordance with the passport law, a legitimate interest in . This may consist of temporal Overlap in the visa position. Also, the fact that the applicant is likely to be denied entry into a country, because he has been previously in certain States, is accepted. The passport authority shall decide.
The entry formalities for travel in the United States have been simplified with the introduction of the Esta forms and the participation in the so-called Visa Waiver program. But even here there are exceptions: anyone Who has lived since 2011 in Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, and Iran, must personally appear in the US Embassy in Berlin or in one of the five U.S. consulates and the visa , which will be sent to him via Post request.
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"The traveler is interviewed on the occasion of his journey, and must confirm, that he was only to tourist purposes ," says Wiebke Thusek. The travel Agency owner from Uetze, near Hannover, will have more in the future than in the past with immigration formalities to deal with. With the entry into force of the new package to the right of the 1. July 2018 are obliged travel agencies are required by law to package tourists in front of the conclusion of the contract comprising the Visa and to inform vaccination requirements , as well as entry regulations of the destination country.
Start-ups on how to pass olution have already recognized, that the travel agents in the future, an increased work effort. The young company from Cologne, aims to save the agencies a lot of research in the AA. " On the Basis of an extensive database will be supplied to travel agents via an interface fully automated with all the relevant provisions", explains managing Director Dennis Zimon. It will also be informed about the possible conflict potential of certain stamps and visas.
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