Stamping passport

My passport if full of Cuban exit permissions (since I have residency here). I regularly enter the US without any comment. (I include Cuba on the list of countries previously visited, too).

I once got an extra search leaving the US.

(Aside, my ex-wife claims that when she went to the US Interests Section, she said that I was "financial controller", and they looked on their computer and corrected her - actually "finance director".)

With the UK's move towards ID cards, things are getting more controlled there. Yes - the Cuban government tries to control its people. Yet I know people with duplicate ID cards, I know one cubana who got a friend to change the records to amend her daughter's surnames (to take the father's surname off). I doubt those sort of things will be as easy in the UK.

Hi

I am returning to Cuba in November and I´m thinking of asking them to stamp my passport rather than the tourist card (or as well as??)as memorabilia. I´m British with Spanish residency and I have no plans to travel to the USA. I have about two years left on my passport.

Can anyone see any reason why I should run into problems with this?

Lucinda
Marbella, Spain

Lucinda - no, there should be no problem with that. (Even if you do travel to the US within the two years.)

I asked for a stamp and after the officer asked if I was sure - she went and ahead and did it - no problem.

#5

If you want to travel to Cuba, avoid the USA and certainly do not demand the Cubans stamp your passport

#8

when I was returning to Canada from Cuba, the Cuban customs offered me the stamp on a piece of paper. Since my passport was about to expire -- and I did not foresee going across the line to the USA anytime soon -- I asked for the stamp inside the passport instead.

You two may have some idea that the US denies entry to people with Cuban stamps in their passports. It doesn't.

So if there is no problem, why does Cuban immigration noy stamp the passport for everyone except USA passport holders???

#15 -- Does "noy" mean "not"? My understanding is that they don't stamp any passports unless you request it.

In any case, it would be pretty perverse of them to stamp only the people for whom stamps would be a problem.

Perhaps they were worried that things might get difficult for those with Cuban stamps, and didn't want to create problems.

I just realized I misread loopy's question. I thought he meant "why does Cuban immigration not stamp the passport for everyone except USA passport holders?" -- i.e. why do they only stamp US passports? (Which of course would make no sense and isn't what the do.) I realize he meant: "What prevents them from stamping passports of everyone except USAnians?"

One answer is probably that it's easier just to have one practice and not worry about stamping a USA passport by mistake. Another may be that, as they often say on the Cuban branch "Es Cuba."

Edited by: VinnyD

And I just realized that this thread had been moved over here to Cuba from Your Choice.