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postfundie
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 Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:14 pm Post subject: crossing from Egypt into Jordan with your Korean girlfriend |
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| anybody done this?? I'm American and Lonely planet says that I can purchase a visa at the border. She's Korean and I guess she can't. Anybody else had this problem? |
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postfundie
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runthegauntlet
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| Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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I did this last October with my gf. We went from Jordan to Israel to Egypt, though. We both got our visas in the Israeli border town of Eilat in about 20 minutes and had no problems going into Egypt. I've never heard of anyone getting a visa at the border. You'll probably have to get it in Amman or Aquaba. There is a special Sinai type visa thing that you can get at the border, but you can't cross into Cairo or the rest of Egypt with that one. Worth checking into.
She did have a problem coming into the airport in Amman, though. She was detained for almost four(!!!) hours. I was freaking out, calling the airline to make sure she was on the flight, trying to get one of those douche bag officials to tell me what was going on. She said they kept telling her it'd just be a few more minutes, few more minutes, they were checking her passport, etc. She was the only one from S. K. and the only one detained. Could have been random but she says it's happened in France as well. Those Korean passports! Watch out.  |
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runthegauntlet
Joined: 02 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry, misread that. You're going from Egypt to Jordan. Crap. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, pretty much any nationality can get a visa when entering Jordan. Your GF should be fine. By crossing at Aqaba, the visa is free too.
And if you don't care about getting an Israeli stamp, I would highly recommend skipping the ferry and just crossing from Egypt to Israel to Jordan. the ferry is a pain in the arse. |
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pugwall
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:27 am Post subject: |
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| Ive done this with K girlfriend. No problem get the visa at the border/on the boat same as you. She will be a lot luckier than you with visas in the middle east. Can get Syrian visa on border as well but imagine it would be pain for Americans. |
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winterfall
Joined: 21 May 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Becareful with the Israeli visa. Get them to stamp a piece of paper and keep that paper in your passport. If its already in your passport, you won't be able to get into any of the more interesting countries in the mideast eg: Lebanon, Syria, Iran. Politics aside they're beautiful countries and even if you are american. As long as you don't have an agenda you won't get flak. |
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runthegauntlet
Joined: 02 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| winterfall wrote: |
| Becareful with the Israeli visa. Get them to stamp a piece of paper and keep that paper in your passport. If its already in your passport, you won't be able to get into any of the more interesting countries in the mideast eg: Lebanon, Syria, Iran. Politics aside they're beautiful countries and even if you are american. As long as you don't have an agenda you won't get flak. |
This doesn't work. If you go overland into Israel, you will have an exit stamp from either Jordan or Egypt. Any immigration official worth his salt will notice it and immediately know what's up. They're not going to give you an exit stamp on a separate sheet of paper.
This will only work if you're flying into or out of Israel, and even then, if they checked out exit stamps and entry stamps and noticed the dates don't correlate, you're SOL. Though that would be far less likely. |
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pugwall
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:26 am Post subject: |
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| I believe it works by crossing from Jordan to Israel and back again. You get both sides to stamp apiece of paper and it looks like you have never left Jordan. There are plenty of cases where the immigration in Israel dont like your face or in a bad mood and stamp your actual passport ruining your trip and meaning you have to go to your embassy in Amman crying about a lost passport. A little risky. |
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winterfall
Joined: 21 May 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:37 am Post subject: |
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| pugwall wrote: |
| I believe it works by crossing from Jordan to Israel and back again. You get both sides to stamp apiece of paper and it looks like you have never left Jordan. There are plenty of cases where the immigration in Israel dont like your face or in a bad mood and stamp your actual passport ruining your trip and meaning you have to go to your embassy in Amman crying about a lost passport. A little risky. |
Jordan and Israel don't have problems with each other. Lebanon, Syria, and Iran have problems with Israel. The overall risk is low. Custom guys just want an idea of where you've been they won't add up all the dates. If you do make it to Iran though be careful with your passport. A british friend of mine locked her passport in her hotel room safe. And the security services stole it. It's unusual because Europe doesn't have as much problems with Iran as the US does. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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| winterfall wrote: |
| pugwall wrote: |
| I believe it works by crossing from Jordan to Israel and back again. You get both sides to stamp apiece of paper and it looks like you have never left Jordan. There are plenty of cases where the immigration in Israel dont like your face or in a bad mood and stamp your actual passport ruining your trip and meaning you have to go to your embassy in Amman crying about a lost passport. A little risky. |
Jordan and Israel don't have problems with each other. Lebanon, Syria, and Iran have problems with Israel. The overall risk is low. Custom guys just want an idea of where you've been they won't add up all the dates. If you do make it to Iran though be careful with your passport. A british friend of mine locked her passport in her hotel room safe. And the security services stole it. It's unusual because Europe doesn't have as much problems with Iran as the US does. |
There is only one crossing you can do: the King Huessin/Allenby bridge. If you cross from Jordan to Israel, you will get a Jordanian exit stamp anywhere else. You will then be denied a visa for syria and lebanon. And if you exit Egypt, go to Israel, then Jordan, you're also out of luck because you have the Egypt exit stamp.
It isn't custom people that are the problem, it is those who issue the visas that are. Most specially Syria. Lebanon might not be the same issue, but you can't get there w/out going through Syria. |
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pugwall
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| winterfall wrote: |
| pugwall wrote: |
| I believe it works by crossing from Jordan to Israel and back again. You get both sides to stamp apiece of paper and it looks like you have never left Jordan. There are plenty of cases where the immigration in Israel dont like your face or in a bad mood and stamp your actual passport ruining your trip and meaning you have to go to your embassy in Amman crying about a lost passport. A little risky. |
Jordan and Israel don't have problems with each other. Lebanon, Syria, and Iran have problems with Israel. The overall risk is low. Custom guys just want an idea of where you've been they won't add up all the dates. If you do make it to Iran though be careful with your passport. A british friend of mine locked her passport in her hotel room safe. And the security services stole it. It's unusual because Europe doesn't have as much problems with Iran as the US does. |
I know they dont. Reread what I worte again.
Don't think the risk is that low to be honest. If you check the Thorntree forums there a plenty of stories of moody cutom officials deciding to stamp your passport rather than paper. |
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