Originally Posted by
König
Of course, you can always go back through entrance immigration control, but besides that and boarding the international flight what other options does a traveller have?
You don't even have to always go back through "entrance immigration control". Going back through "
exit immigration control" works just fine to get back landside and/or into the "domestic" immigration/customs zone that was just "left", and it even works without taking the international flight or going through "entrance immigration control" (since that doesn't even exist at all times/places/hours in countries that have in place "entry" and "exit" passport control, a la the EU Schengen countries/Argentina/Chile/Malaysia/etc.)
Originally Posted by
ESpen36
It's not like in the States, where you can go in and out of the secure area as much as you want as long as you're holding your valid boarding pass and ID, even if you're departing internationally. No passport check or stamping out (for most travelers).
The US does a passport check of all travelers using a common carrier to enter and/or depart the US. That there is no stamp in most passengers' passport and that there is no government official physically handling the physical passport doesn't change a thing.
The odds of getting out of the US on an invalidated/restricted/flagged US passport on a common carrier's flight out of the US is pretty poor compared to doing the same on an invalidated/restricted/flagged EU Schengen country's passport departing France or the Netherlands for non-EU localities.