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xtremdelt8
Joined: 25 Oct 2010
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Location: Panama City Beach, FL
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 Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 6:33 pm Post subject: One way tickets |
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I've heard from a few people about the troubles they've had entering a country (namely Japan and Korea) with just a one way plane ticket. Has anyone here run into this problem?
I don't understand how you can possibly purchase a return ticket in advance when you have no idea when you'll be returning.
Personally, I've flown one way into CR (then took a a train out) and one way into Turkey (and took a different airline out). I was never refused entry, or questioned on the reason for, or the length of my stay. |
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tttompatz
Joined: 06 Mar 2010
Posts: 1951
Location: Talibon, Bohol, Philippines
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| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:42 pm Post subject: Re: One way tickets |
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| xtremdelt8 wrote: |
I've heard from a few people about the troubles they've had entering a country (namely Japan and Korea) with just a one way plane ticket. Has anyone here run into this problem?
I don't understand how you can possibly purchase a return ticket in advance when you have no idea when you'll be returning.
Personally, I've flown one way into CR (then took a a train out) and one way into Turkey (and took a different airline out). I was never refused entry, or questioned on the reason for, or the length of my stay. |
The problem lies in the way they are entering.
If you travel with a visa then the airlines don't worry so much.
They are not responsible for your repatriation if you are refused entry (you have the visa from the country's consulate).
Most people now prefer to use (when available) the visa waiver programs that different countries have established.
One of the significant differences between traveling with a visa (onus on the country since they gave you permission to travel and period of stay pre-defined from 30-unlimited))
and traveling on a visa waiver (no advance permission from the consulate (visa)) and usually only permitted for reasons of tourism (short stay) is the requirement for onward passage and enforced by the airline (who bears the cost of your removal if you are denied entry).
If you don't want the hassle, you have 2 choices:
1) buy a 1-year-open-return ticket (available from any major airline)
2) get a visa.
Pick one.
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naturegirl321
Joined: 04 May 2003
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Location: home sweet home
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| there's a third option as well. Buy a ticket to another country. We did this with my husband. HIs one way from Peru to Korea cost a stinking lot of money, and he came on a tourist visa. As a third world citizen, we'd knew he'd have issues. So we bought a RT to Thailand. As long as he could show a way out of the country he was good to go. two months later, when we went to SE Asia, he had residency, and didn't have any problems when he entered and didn't have a ticket out. |
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