Al wrote:
> Scott Reynolds <scottreyn@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Al wrote:
>>> Scott Reynolds <scottreyn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> exit stamp from the country you  just left
>>> No such things in most countries I have been to. :-)
>> OK, but they stamp your J passport when you enter gaikoku, right?
> 
> Some countries do, some don't.
> 
>> What happens when you come back and there are no foreign stamps
>> in your J passport at all?
> 
> Well, some countries, such as the US, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Taiwan,
> seem to put stamps into passports, but other countries clip or staple
> relevant permits into travelers' passports and remove them when the
> visitors leave. And some countries don't seem to bother at all - I don't
> recall getting any stamps into my passport when I went through Europe.
> And nobody has ever asked me what the staple holes in some of the pages
> of my passport meant, either. :-)
> 
> Have you ever been asked, at the time of entering any country, which
> country you were _coming from_? Well, you might say, if the officer
> looks at your ticket, they can tell. Yes, in that case they can tell
> where you boarded the flight you came in on, but that does not tell them
> terribly much. And I have actually never been asked to show my ticket
> when entering a country whose passport I was presenting (i.e., upon
> "coming home"), only when entering a country I was visiting.
> 
> FWIW, no guarantee any of the above said might not be different
> tomorrow.

Understood, but quite interesting and useful nevertheless.

Much appreciated, Al.

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