I have a question on this electronic APIS. If I fly from China to USA and book ticket and check in using Chinese passport, but enter USA using US passport, will this be a problem? I am concerned due the the information mismatch between APIS (immigration) and US passport, there will be a problem entering US?  thanks
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I am a citizen of two different countries, and have two passports.  How should I use my passports when traveling?
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I have a valid B1/B2 US visa expiring about a year from now. The passport it's in expired a few years ago, and I recently got a new one.   The passport number does not match, but the national ID number, mentioned in both, does (it used to be the same as your national ID, but not anymore)  Can I travel to the US carrying both passports? Or is it asking for trouble? (I read a few years ago that it was possible, but that might have changed)  Should I just get a new visa to avoid potential complications?
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Hi All, My passport first page got ripped. Front side of this page has a Indian emblem and backside is a blank with no stamps or Visas. Other pages including visas, personal details, POE stamps everything looks good. Basically a brand new passport with more than 7 years validity. Will this be considered as damaged? Please help me with your answers ASAP as I have a travel plan to India end of this month for my own wedding.   This damage happened accidentally when I was scanning the pages.
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When checking-in for a flight online, you are usually asked for details such as date of birth, passport number, passport expiration dates, etc. However despite making minor mistakes a few times (usually in the expiration date field), I was never once questioned by the airline. I also don't remember them checking anything except my name or my visa status.  So the questions are:   Is passenger information (as entered during online check-in) other than name and visa ever validated by airlines? Is that information ever validated by immigration? Will you be denied boarding because you've made a mistake during online check-in?   The question is restricted to UK and USA flights because both are generally strict about requiring APIS data for all inbound flights.
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I'm travelling soon but need to renew my passport.  Given that I have to provide my passport number to the airline to book a flight, I was wondering if my passport number would change if I renew it.  Or would the number stay the same and the expiry date just change?  I'm asking specifically as an Australian citizen, although I suspect a 'common' answer (if there is a general way this works) might be useful too.
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I have an expired US passport, and due to an family emergency in America, i need to travel immediately. The US embassy where i live cannot renew my passport for another 2-3 weeks.  I have dual citizenship. Can i use my foreign passport to obtain ESTA and enter into the US? I have already applied for the ESTA, and stated that i also have a US passport. It has been approved. Will i still have a problem entering?
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Earlier this year I was in Japan and Korea. Now I'm back in my home country. However, when I was in Korea the "scan" machine before going to luggage inspection, right before accessing the boarding gates made a weird "alert" sound. It has happened at least twice already, but both times the officer just handed me back my passport and didn't ask me anything. They just made sure I looked the same as in the photo.  When I was checking out of Japan, before going to the boarding gates, when the officers scanned my passport, they all looked at each other confused but never looked at me or asked any question.  I'm wondering if there's something wrong with my passport and what it could it? I'm a little concerned even though I've never been asked anything whenever this happens.
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I am going to Florida in a few days. I have a British passport that I acquired in September 2006. It has a "camera" symbol on front and is biometric. Just seen news items that only passports from October 2006 or later will be accepted by the USA. Is my passport valid for travel to the USA? I do have a valid ESTA.
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I've been in Mexico for a month and a half and I'm currently heading to Mexico City to apply for a Chinese visa since I already have a flight back to China but my previous visa expired.  China requires a minimum of three bookings to issue a visa: One flight to China, One flight out of China, and one accommodation booking. Even if you intend to enter and/or leave via a land border and even if you're applying for a double-entry visa you only need show these reservations for the first entry.  Previously I have done this in Laos and Australia. In Vientiane one travel agent understood exactly what I needed and made the bookings, printed them out, then cancelled them for just a few dollars. In Australia a friend who worked as a travel agent at the time booked my flights and sent me the bookings before cancelling them.  In Mexico City I don't have such a friend and where you can walk around every travel agency in Vientiane in less than an hour, Mexico City is one of the biggest cities in the world.  I know I can book some kind of flight with no or low cancellation fee myself but don't know how to find such flights. There might be other ways I never thought of.
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In a question about travel to Puerto Rico :  Note also that you should bring your green card and passport if you travel to or from Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands. While this is a purely domestic flight, and it is not strictly required for you to have your passport, if the flight has an emergency it may need to divert to an airport at an island which is not part of the USA. You will need your travel documents if this happens.  Are there historical examples of this happening, either in Puerto Rico or elsewhere? Presumably most passengers on the plane will have no passports in this case and would thus be ineligible to enter under default circumstances. Is it thus recommended to take a passport if your flight goes over foreign territory?
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I'm from Guatemala and planning to go to Jakarta and most of the flights go through China. I've read about the 24 hour Transit Without Visa (TWOV) program available for most countries. Does this apply to me if the flight from LAX has two stops in China?   Los Angeles (LAX) > Qingdao (TAO) > Xiamen (XMN) > Jakarta (CGK)  The flight arrives in TAO at 5am and goes to XMN at 7am.  Then, it arrives at XMN at 9:30am and leaves to CGK at 6pm.  This would amount to 13 hours in China and I have no plans to leave the airports. Would I have any problems?  Thanks for the help!
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I am flying from Orange County, California to San Francisco, California and then on to Seoul, South Korea. If I check a bag will I have to pick it up in San Francisco and re-check it and go through security or customs for the international flight?  Everything I am reading leads me to believe that it's only necessary to re-check baggage and go through security and/or customs when you are first arriving into a country. However, since my first leg is staying within the United States I assume the airline will transfer my bag to the next flight and I can just go straight to the gate for my international flight?  Both legs of the flight are through the same airline (United Airlines) and there are only the two legs: OC -> SF, then SF -> Seoul.
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I am flying Europe to South Korea and then back for two weeks. However I might have done a stupid mistake when booking the ticket. I have two first and two last names, but when booking the ticket I omitted one of the first names while in a hurry.   So my passport reads  GIVEN NAMES: JOHN RICARD  SURNAME: ERICSON FANSON   But I booked the ticket as  First name: John  Last name: Ericson Fanson   Would this be an issue? I contacted the agency to change the name but after 3 phone calls they told me to contact the airline. However in case there's a fee, I was thinking to see if it's even necessary to make the amendment.
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Hopefully a quick question - I am a US citizen currently residing in the UK on a visa. I am traveling to the US for 2 weeks with my wife, who is a British citizen. We do not yet share a last name (due to just not filing the paperwork yet and just being married recently).  She does not have any visas apart from the standard ESTA and there are no other further requirements, such as money, which we would need to worry about.  I've read online that since we are a family we should join the same line together when coming into the US border at the airport. However, because we don't share a last name, would this still apply? Should we just use our own appropriate lines? Would there be any issues with using our own lines?  If we do use one line only, which line?  US citizen or non-US?
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Last night I took a night train from Romania to Hungary. I shared a compartment with another American backpacker (and others.) The border crossing on the Romanian side was normal -- all of our passports were stamped and the border officer recorded our data in his notepad. On the Hungarian side, some sort of commotion broke out further down the train car while we were being processed. The officer who was scanning and stamping our passports left and never came back. As a result, the other American backpacker never had her passport scanned or stamped.  What sort of difficulties might she run into since her passport has not been recorded as entering the schengen zone, nor does she have an extra stamp? What might get options be now, from within Schengen, to get her entrance recorded?  (When I say "scanned", the officers had hand-held devices that read the passport biometrics and I assume, recorded some sort of data somewhere.)
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When entering the US on an international flight, and then on to a connecting domestic flight, what is the exact order of the process that will take place? In other words, what happens first, second, third, etc.?
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I have booked tickets for my parents to visit Mauritius for a week and my mom's passport (given name is xxxx) doesn't have surname, so in the e-ticket form her name has been printed as "Mr xxxx". I have spoken to the travel agency and Air Mauritius, but didn't get any information regarding the issue.  Can anyone please tell me if there might be a problem boarding the flight?  I am very anxious right now since its their first international flight.