Cuba Now Stamping Passports???

Please understand whatever information you are getting from this "travel agent" - the information or your understanding or how you express it is not correct:

1) a US passport holder would not be denied re-entry into the US due to a Cuba passport stamp.

2) on a foreign passport, where the foreign passport holder has temporary residency in the US, yes they "could" be denied re-entry for any reason, including "possibly" for a Cuba passport stamp.

3) "No" Cuba exit immigration does NOT stamp US passports, unless specifically requested by the passport holder - that's one of the reasons for the entry/exit tourist visa coupon, that little pice of paper takes the place of entry and exit stamps.

On the "story", I wouldn't worry if you are a US citizen.

Keep the beat !.

When did this happen? I just returned 2 weeks ago and I was not stamped. I don't really care if they stamp or not being a Canadian.

I am a Canadian and always ask them for my passport to be STAMP . They smile, say ok, but sometimes don't stamp ..go figure ;-)

Notice that the OP is a first time poster, who has no clue about the "rumor he/she heard", and has no idea what she is talking about.

To say that a US citizen was denied entry back into the US because she had a Cuba entry stamp in her passport is preposterous. That would "never" happen.

There was a variation on this story posted on tripadviser a week or so ago. I didn't reallly read it but had something to do with a trip to Cuba invalidating a visa used for frequent travel b/n USA and Canada. This required some sort of legal assistance. But like this one I think it too was second or so hand!

My passport wasn't stamped last month. On previous trips I have asked that it be stamped as I wanted to be able to prove my absence from Canada. The stamps I got were so faint that they could barely be read. I very much doubt that a US immigration officer would ever notice a Cuban stamp. Even if s/he did, it's hard to imagine an American being denied entry to his/her own country.

Good grief, I NEVER listen to what Travel Agents say as most of them are generally clueless.

My passport has never been stamped by Cuba UNLESS I specifically ask them to stamp it. I've got quite a collection of Cuba stamps because unless I forget, I generally ask and get the stamp.

Am plenty of US CBP agents have seen those stamps and other than ask me if I have any Cigars (entering the USA) they just laugh and tell me they wish they could go.

I wish the OP would clarify the original posting to tell us what really happened to who, and what nationality they were, and on what passport were they travelling.

A previous poster did tell that he had his entry back into the US delayed on one occasion (by a day or so, I think) - but that was many years ago. Neither OFAC nor US immigration seem to have much interest in Cuba travel.

This sounds more like a tale spread by someone who has there own agenda for trying to discourage Cuba travel.

The first and only post from someone who just joined the forum yesterday and tells us a story that could never have happened and people are responding to them as though they might be genuine? And some here who have called me naive !

There is no "fren" that told him this story nor is there a travel agent somewhere who would tell such a blatant lie in order to avoid earning a commission on a ticket sale. The poster is a ringer who might well have a "Q" in their name, but whose obvious purpose is to disseminate misinformation.

Let's ask the OP to provide the name of the "Canadian travel agent" who said something as ridiculous as he would have us believe. Please also tell us who it was, what governmental agency, that allegedly turned this imaginary traveler back at the US border. There is no agency within the US government empowered to do that for the reasons stated.

Let's change the username to baloney5959, shall we ?