Exit stamp when leaving Mexico? (Generally, no.)
Apr 28, 2021, 8:13 am
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Exit stamp when leaving Mexico? (Generally, no.)
I'm planning to stay 14 days in Mexico in order to be able to travel to the USA.
I did the same thing last year by staying 14 days in Turkey, where Turkish immigration put exit stamp with a date in my passport when I left the country.
Does Mexican immigration also gives exit stamp in your passport? I was searching for an answer and some forums say there is no exit stamp?
I'm asking because the US immigration officer explicitly said they need so see an exit stamp as proof you've been out of the Schengen are for the last 14 days.
I did the same thing last year by staying 14 days in Turkey, where Turkish immigration put exit stamp with a date in my passport when I left the country.
Does Mexican immigration also gives exit stamp in your passport? I was searching for an answer and some forums say there is no exit stamp?
I'm asking because the US immigration officer explicitly said they need so see an exit stamp as proof you've been out of the Schengen are for the last 14 days.
Apr 28, 2021, 8:20 am
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Hi,
From my the experience of my mother - No exit stamp but there is an entry stamp. Keep your boarding pass proving when you first entered Mexico and then left Mexico. As it happens she flew AA from Mexico into DFW, and nobody asked her once how long she had been in Mexico they only wanted to check her antigen test.
From my the experience of my mother - No exit stamp but there is an entry stamp. Keep your boarding pass proving when you first entered Mexico and then left Mexico. As it happens she flew AA from Mexico into DFW, and nobody asked her once how long she had been in Mexico they only wanted to check her antigen test.
Apr 28, 2021, 12:07 pm
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Apr 28, 2021, 3:46 pm
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I know a handful of people who spent 14 days in Mexico before traveling to the US, because they came from a place in the red list. No one was exit stamped and they all entered the US!
Apr 29, 2021, 7:48 am
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Schengen definitely has exit controls. If (unlikely) the border guard does not stamp your passport at the exit control, you can ask them to do so. This should provide you with the required proof of having left Schengen more than 14 days ago when you arrive at the US border.
May 2, 2021, 10:16 am
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While Mexico’s airport security agents may be more nosy than others and departing passengers are required to process Migración / immigration, there’s generally no exit stamp provided. You are required to turn in your permit “tourist card”, however, and they might well check the length of time one was given to visit on arrival (it is often the maximum of six months, but I’ve rarely seen it be as little as several days to conform with someone’s declared stay).
May 3, 2021, 3:19 pm
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Wouldn't the exit stamp here refer to the one you get when leaving Schengen? Presumably for CBP it is only important when you left the Schengen zone, not when you entered or left Mexico.
Schengen definitely has exit controls. If (unlikely) the border guard does not stamp your passport at the exit control, you can ask them to do so. This should provide you with the required proof of having left Schengen more than 14 days ago when you arrive at the US border.
Schengen definitely has exit controls. If (unlikely) the border guard does not stamp your passport at the exit control, you can ask them to do so. This should provide you with the required proof of having left Schengen more than 14 days ago when you arrive at the US border.
May 4, 2021, 10:11 am
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EU Citizens usually go through the automated border control, so no stamp. Permanent residents normally go to an agent and depending on the agent's willingness, they will stamp it or not. I had to make a strong case at CDG once to get a stamp since the agent and his supervisor both concluded that I didn't need one.
May 4, 2021, 10:55 am
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If you are flying to the US from Mexico, you won't get a stamp, but you will get a sticker for the back of your passport, after you do your security exit interview (done at the gate)
Though this past time in April time they stuck my sticker to my Covid attestation, which they collected....
Though this past time in April time they stuck my sticker to my Covid attestation, which they collected....
May 4, 2021, 7:29 pm
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EU Citizens usually go through the automated border control, so no stamp. Permanent residents normally go to an agent and depending on the agent's willingness, they will stamp it or not. I had to make a strong case at CDG once to get a stamp since the agent and his supervisor both concluded that I didn't need one.
).No idea if it's possible to get a Schengen exit stamp as Schengen resident/citizen (you don't have to use the automated gates, can always see an agent).
In any case I'm sure the issue is a Schengen exit stamp, not the Mexican one, as the Mexican one would presumably be on the same day (or the day before - are there overnight Mexico-US flights?) as entry to the US, therefore useless to prove 14 days since exit from Schengen.
(In fact, the *entry* stamp to Mexico would be more useful here.)
May 5, 2021, 2:16 am
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If you are flying to the US from Mexico, you won't get a stamp, but you will get a sticker for the back of your passport, after you do your security exit interview (done at the gate)
Though this past time in April time they stuck my sticker to my Covid attestation, which they collected....
Though this past time in April time they stuck my sticker to my Covid attestation, which they collected....