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Old Sep 5, 2009 | 11:10 pm
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
I got the logistics of how it can be done long ago, but to exit the US, isn't the US requirement ordinarily that a US citizen use a US passport to exit the US when on a commercial flight?
Well, since I'm starting paralegal at school in few days thought I might do some research and volia..

8 U.S.C. sec. 1185(b)
Travel control of citizens and aliens

(b) Citizens
Except as otherwise provided by the President and subject to such limitations and exceptions as the President may authorize and prescribe, it shall be unlawful for any citizen of the United States to depart from or enter, or attempt to depart from or enter, the United States unless he bears a valid United States passport.
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