QM2 Caribbean Cruise Immigration Query

[capegirl]

Can someone please tell me - do you have to go through the Immigration Process at each caribbean port you visit:confused:

[2moose]

Can someone please tell me - do you have to go through the Immigration Process at each caribbean port you visit:confused:[/QUOwe went to the caribe from nyc and returned to nyc immigration processed at 5:00 am the morning of returning to nyc. never processed in the caribbe.

[capegirl]

Thanks 2moose!:)

[travel-to-go]

Can someone please tell me - do you have to go through the Immigration Process at each caribbean port you visit:confused:

 

I believe the rules are that if you have been out of the country (for a US citizen) you must pass CUSTOMS at the first US port you stop at. Immigration, I believe is only required on your return. I am talking US citizens here- I think this also applies to US residents who are non-citizens. The only place that I know of that requires immigration ALWAYS at every visit, is the Bahamas.

 

I will check further. I should know this! You forget after a while, and there have been recent changes.

I have info bookmarked somewhere!

FYI Here is the U.S. State Department's Travel website- all sorts of info on passports, where visas are required (Doesn't say anytthing about MasterCard!) etc.

Good info.

[cusyl]

We had to clear Immigration in St Thomas after cruising in the Caribbean on the QM2. Our voyage embarked in Ft Lauderdale.

[travel-to-go]

We had to clear Immigration in St Thomas after cruising in the Caribbean on the QM2. Our voyage embarked in Ft Lauderdale.

 

That makes sense. St Thomas is a part of the U.S. (US Virgin Islands.) Therefore you had to clear immigration.

 

Sometimes I mix up the rules between Immigration and Customs. I guess in either case, the first US port you hit after being somewhere other then the US.

 

I remember the first time I went to Puerto Rico (by air) then took a flight over to St Thomas and back. Even though both are part of the US, I had to clear customs when I returned from St Thomas. The rationale was that I could have gone somewhere else from St Thomas- I suppose so-It's easy enoughto take a sailboat over to a British Virgin. The main thing was that you not bring some sort of agricultural product into the country that might harm US crops.