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Does anyone know if i can leave the country to go to the us today and come back on Sunday monring i know i am supposed to wait 72 hours but i heard they will still let me back in. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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[quote=”jhicks920″]Does anyone know if i can leave the country to go to the us today and come back on Sunday monring i know i am supposed to wait 72 hours but i heard they will still let me back in. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Joe[/quote]
Yes, you can. A year ago, my lawyer told me it is a myth about the 72-hour stay. I went to Nicaragua. Spent an hour in the duty-free shop, turned around, and walked back over the border. No problem.
I had splurged and had taken a cab up. The cabbie waited the hour. Brought him some duty-free bottles. And we headed back. Having paid him well, he took me on a tour of places along the coast I had not been and wanted to see. It was his suggestion!
Happy trip![quote=”jhicks920″]Does anyone know if i can leave the country to go to the us today and come back on Sunday monring i know i am supposed to wait 72 hours but i heard they will still let me back in. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Joe[/quote]
My wife flew to Tampa one day to take the grandkids home and returned the next day on a round trip ticket – no problem with immigracion, except she had to prove that she still had an “exit ticket” for a later date.
It was confusing because she flew in/out of SJO on Spirit, and her “exit ticket” was several weeks later out of LIR on Delta. Immigracion had a hard time understanding that, but although she had no proof with her she just kept insisting that it was fact (it was) and they finally allowed her to pass through.
The sad part of the story is that she was so frustrated with the ordeal she forgot to make my requested stop at the downstairs duty free store!
The return ticket is an entirely different matter. It is not enforced by immigration, but buy the airline. They wont sell you a one way ticket without a return flight. Not all airline enforce this rule.
[quote=”xxyzzz”]The return ticket is an entirely different matter. It is not enforced by immigration, but buy the airline. They wont sell you a one way ticket without a return flight. Not all airline enforce this rule.[/quote]
Actually, it was [u][/u]immigracion in San Jose[u][/u] that stopped her and detained her until she was able to convince them that she indeed did have an “exit ticket”.
You are right that the question should have been asked Stateside by Spirit Airlines, but they did not ask. Immigracion in San Jose is the one that escorted her back to Spirit, then to Delta, trying to verify her “exit ticket”. I didn’t think it important to go into all of this in my first response, but as long as “xxyzzz” states affirmatively that “It is not enforced by immigracion” I thought it may be important to let folks know that even if you make it by the airline in the U.S., you may still be questioned by IMMIGRACION in San Jose!
[quote=”maravilla”]if you’re a resident you don’t need no stinking exit ticket!!![/quote]
And for Maravilla, you actually do not need to be a resident – as I am sure you aready know! You need only be “in process” or “expediente” with immigracion to avoid the 90 day rule.
Perhaps you were a little “into the cups” when you wrote your response as I have never seen you respond with such ferver(!!!)!.
Perhaps you can sleep it off tonight.
An official of the Immigration department in Liberia told us that you only have to cross the border, have you passport stamped coming and going – there is no time requirement.
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