Puerto Rico vacation: foreign or domestic trip?

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Is Puerto Rico considered as foreign or domestic trip for filling out travel dates info in N-400?
 
Puerto Rico is domestic for the passport not required reason already given. I briefly tussled with a similar situation on my N-400 app regarding a trip we made to the USVI and in the end, I did not list it.
 
It is easy to check whether the travel was domestic or international: if there was no passport control, then it was domestic.
 
König said:
It is easy to check whether the travel was domestic or international: if there was no passport control, then it was domestic.
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For the USVI, even though a passport is not required, it is recommended that you do travel with it because you do have to go through a Customs and Immigration check in St Thomas on your return to the mainland. If you don't have your passport, there is this form that one has to fill out and then provide proof of ID for. It slows down your processing at the airport. We carried our passports and had no issues and got stamped in the passport but I remember these sunburned ladies, half-drunk, struggling with filling those up and the Immigration officer shaking his head about them. Anyway, because we had our passports stamped, I wasn't sure how this trip was viewed by the USCIS but in the end, figured this was still considered not having left the US.
 
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