olwagner

France does have an exit stamp (but then, you can avoid french customs alltogether if leaving france thru some trains to switzerland). The Netherlands has it as well.

Loren Pechtel

That's not conclusive.

I have been on a train from A -> B -> C. No official from B ever was involved.

olwagner

Regardless of her leaving on time or not, if she stays 89 days and tries another visa waiver back-to-back, she likely be denied entry on the basis that she did not demonstrate a "non-immigrant intent".

Such a scenario is already iffy with a visa B1/B2, but it is almost a guarantee of being denied entry if using a visa waiver.

ajax

Ah.

I expect that, since Switzerland is (as of 1 November) in the Schengen Zone, you will see border agents become much more diligent about stamping passports for non-EEC (which is basically EU25 + Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) nationals coming from and going to outside the Schengen Zone.

Then again, the Spanish, Portuguese and Italians are quite lax about stamping non-EU passports, so perhaps the Swiss will follow that lead. But I doubt it.

hfly

I somehow doubt that the Swiss will be more "diligent" after the first few weeks, since this thread was started, I have entered and exited France six times, each time coming from or leaving from a non-Schengen country, all travel by air (or rather I have entered France a bunch of other times by land, but am not including it). For all six trips I have 4 entry stamps and ZERO exit stamps.

imz1

Are you sure ???

rajesh.k

I flew in to India from Paris this morning, I was accompanied by 30 fellow students, whilst all the others got a stamp out, I was the only one who did not receive a departure stamp. I am kinda concerned about it. Hope it does not create any hassles in the future.

N227UA

I had an Indonesian friend few years ago, and I once got a chance to see his passport. I was quite surprised to find US departure stamps in his passport. He told me that he got US exit stamp every time when he left the country. One remark is his passport was not a machine-readable passport. That may be the reason why his passport was stamped every time upon departure. For those of you who have a machine-readable passport, your departure and entry record can be instantly pulled out of CBP's database. Therefore, there is no way for you to circumvent such limit.

p.s. This is one of two non-machine-readable passports that I have seen in my life. The other was an Indian passport that was held by my seatmate on SFO-NRT flight. I was very shocked to see the empty bottom space on the passport picture page at that time because I have never seen something like that before.

GUWonder

There are ways to circumvent such limits still.

minhaoxue

First of all, with the ESTA program, A person entering the U.S. Under the Visa Waiver Program no longer needs to complete an I-94W (green form). The person's passport is stamped and the Officer puts a date under the stamp in the passport. Secondly, this is the 21st Century and all arrivals/departure records are available electronically and in the system upon entering/departing the U.S..

minhaoxue

[QUOTE=N227UA;16523282]I had an Indonesian friend few years ago, and I once got a chance to see his passport. I was quite surprised to find US departure stamps in his passport. He told me that he got US exit stamp every time when he left the country. [QUOTE]

Your friend was entered into a special program called NSEERS. He is required to do outboud proceedures, which required him to report to the CBP departure Office to get a departure stamp in his passport. This is not required for everyone.

kpowed

Andorra does not do entry or exit stamp (Sept 2013), despite me begging the immigration officer.

CMK10

Didn't get one in Nicaragua sadly. Could have used it too, the entry stamp I got is almost unreadable