My fiancee's Passport

[NYC-KK 0]

My fiancee took a trip to Lao in 2007. When she left Thailand, they stamped her passport. But that is it. There is no entrance in Lao or return to Thailand. This is because Thai people are generally allowed to cross over into Lao without even showing their passport. Still, I'm concerned that they might ask her about this at her interview. If they do, what should she say?

[thongd4me 69]

My fiancee took a trip to Lao in 2007. When she left Thailand, they stamped her passport. But that is it. There is no entrance in Lao or return to Thailand. This is because Thai people are generally allowed to cross over into Lao without even showing their passport. Still, I'm concerned that they might ask her about this at her interview. If they do, what should she say?

She should tell them exactly what she said about Thais going across the Lao border

in bold above. That should not merit an alarm or a challenge. My wife has been

to Laos once or twice, but I haven't looked at the stamps in her passport.

They didn't comment on anything in her passport. She also went to China & Hong Kong.

This I believe will be a very marginal issue, one not eve touched in the interview.

The US consulate is only interested in attempts to get US visas and the history

& consequences of having traveled to the US on previous occasions.

If she had hundreds of stamps for Laos in her passport that might merit a question,

but not what you've described.

[JD63 4]

She should tell them exactly what she said about Thais going across the Lao border

in bold above. That should not merit an alarm or a challenge. My wife has been

to Laos once or twice, but I haven't looked at the stamps in her passport.

They didn't comment on anything in her passport. She also went to China & Hong Kong.

This I believe will be a very marginal issue, one not eve touched in the interview.

The US consulate is only interested in attempts to get US visas and the history

& consequences of having traveled to the US on previous occasions.

If she had hundreds of stamps for Laos in her passport that might merit a question,

but not what you've described.

Yeah I'm not sure what the problem would be, that she visited Lao? I think Thai's can cross the boarder with just the national Id card anyway. If she had stamps from say, Yemen, that might raise some eyebrows. They don't stamp your passport on arrival back in the US unless you stay somewhere an extended period of time, i'm not sure why it would be any different there.

[NYC-KK 0]

Yeah I'm not sure what the problem would be, that she visited Lao? I think Thai's can cross the boarder with just the national Id card anyway. If she had stamps from say, Yemen, that might raise some eyebrows. They don't stamp your passport on arrival back in the US unless you stay somewhere an extended period of time, i'm not sure why it would be any different there.

She did have her passport stamped as a departure from Thailand, but there is no entrance stamp from Lao or re-entry stamp from Thailand. I am concerned that they might think that she crossed be border illegally.

If they ask her about it, I think what she should say that the others in her party told her that they just show their ID cards and so she followed their lead and put her passport away after leaving Thailand. That's it.

[payxibka 10,045]

My fiancee took a trip to Lao in 2007. When she left Thailand, they stamped her passport. But that is it. There is no entrance in Lao or return to Thailand. This is because Thai people are generally allowed to cross over into Lao without even showing their passport. Still, I'm concerned that they might ask her about this at her interview. If they do, what should she say?

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