Cuba customs stamping passports?

[Maplepie]

Several countries also give passports for a small monetary donation, usually in the realm of $200k-$500k.

Kiribati's GDP for 3 years!

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[Dara]

If you are of Italian, Greek, Irish or Lithuanian descent, you can claim citizenship by descent. Of course, if you are Greek and get citizenship, you will be obligated to do national service if aged between 18-45.

To qualify for Irish citizenship you need to have at least a grandparent ( not necessarily living) who was an Irish citizen.....this rules out a huge amount of Irish Americans who are more than 2 generations removed from an Irish citizen.

Italy is the same as far as I know (I've a brother and sister who are Italian citizens).

[CaptainQuintero]

What are the repercussions of having a Cuban stamp in a US passport for a US citizen?

[AbuAmelia]

Here you go. You might need to convince them of your need.

http://www.uspassporthelpguide.com/second-passport/

So do passport numbers change? If I went to the Post Office and said I lost my passport so that I can have two, like I've done with my DL incase I lose it, will it be different?

[AbuAmelia]

Here you go. You might need to convince them of your need.

http://www.uspassporthelpguide.com/second-passport/

So do passport numbers change? If I went to the Post Office and said I lost my passport so that I can have two, like I've done with my DL incase I lose it, will it be different?

[AlohaStyle]

So do passport numbers change? If I went to the Post Office and said I lost my passport so that I can have two, like I've done with my DL incase I lose it, will it be different?

I don't know if the numbers change. However, if you are suggesting in a round about way to have 2 passports on you while re-entering the US, know that passports have the chip technology where your information pops up on the computer screen before the agent even sees your passport. What would happen if you have 2 passports, would it alert the agent of having 2 on your person?? I don't know, and wouldn't want to find out.

[Dara]

What are the repercussions of having a Cuban stamp in a US passport for a US citizen?

I don't think it's an offence as in it's not illegal for a US citizen to visit Cuba, but the minute you spend money there you break treasury department laws under the embargo (there's about 5 or 6 laws applying to Cuba including the 1917 "trading with the enemy" law)!

So a stamp in your US passport (or any passport where the person lives in the US) would make you a prime target for customs and if they could find proof that you bought anything in Cuba then it would be confiscated and in theory as a US citizen you could be prosecuted for breaking OFAC rules, but more than likely you would be fined.

A friend travelled there under a US licensed travel scheme (designed as a "humanitarian" tour) 2 years ago and he politely the perplexed Cuban immigration official to stamp his US passport as he was there legally, and as being there legally they were allowed being back cultural nick nacks (cigars weren't counted as that unfortunately for him)!

[PaulP]

I don't think it's an offence as in it's not illegal for a US citizen to visit Cuba, but the minute you spend money there you break treasury department laws under the embargo (there's about 5 or 6 laws applying to Cuba including the 1917 "trading with the enemy" law)!

Although the government of Cuba permits US citizens to visit, the US government restricts its citizens from travelling there, except with a license issued by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control. The specific restriction is againstspending money in Cuba. However, US authorities consider any visit of more than one day to be prima facie proof that one has spent money there. Furthermore, OFAC also holds that US citizens also may not receive goods or services for free from any Cuban national, eliminating any attempts to circumvent the regulation based on that premise.

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