Trips outside of the U.S.

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anmn

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There is a quesion in our N-400 form about trips which we take outside of the U.S. I mentioned all trips where I went and when,I didn't have any problems with it becase I knew about this requirement long time ago and kept track of it. Last night I went through my form and passport stamps and realize I don't have any stamp about my trip to the carribeans on the cruise. Does the IO usually go throagh the passport to see every stamp or they don't do it?
 
anmn said:
There is a quesion in our N-400 form about trips which we take outside of the U.S. I mentioned all trips where I went and when,I didn't have any problems with it becase I knew about this requirement long time ago and kept track of it. Last night I went through my form and passport stamps and realize I don't have any stamp about my trip to the carribeans on the cruise. Does the IO usually go throagh the passport to see every stamp or they don't do it?
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Hi anmn,

I've noticed that they are not very good at stamping passports for cruise trips to the Caribbean and also trips to Canada. For my cruise ship trips I kept the boarding card (the one you make purchases with onboard) just in case. But you are right, they don't stamp it.
But I would not worry about it. It's their responsibility to stamp your passport, so they are basically not doing their jobs when they don't do it.

suresh_colo
 
I never got stamped for my first trip to Mexico as a US citizen with my new US passport either. That sucked, I wanted something to show hey, it's been used.

Yeah North American trips (Canada/Mexico) they don't always stamp it, so that's not a big issue at all that you have no proof. In fact marking it down on the N-400 shows you are being honest as you theoretically have no proof you went on the trip. They might like that...
 
I traveled extensively around the Bahamas/Caribbean/US by private boat prior to my interview, and probably only had 30% of my US entries stamped at the PoE. The IO did skim though my passport, but never picked on anything specific. Apparently missing stamps are quite normal.... at one US PoE I was even asked whether I wanted a stamp or not! :eek:
 
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