Entry stamp in pasport for Citizen and Resident

[tanyaru 3]

Good day all!

Me (PR) and hubby (citizen) recently traveled to Mexico by air. Upon arriving to US we came to the IO booth together. IO stamped my pasport with the "Admitted" stamp but did not stamp his. Is this normal?

Thank you.

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

Good day all!

Me (PR) and hubby (citizen) recently traveled to Mexico by air. Upon arriving to US we came to the IO booth together. IO stamped my pasport with the "Admitted" stamp but did not stamp his. Is this normal?

Thank you.

Yes. US citizens are never processed through immigration and either "admitted" or "paroled" into the United States. US citizens have a right to be here, and don't need permission from the US government to enter. I've traveled abroad many times, and US immigration has never stamped my passport. They just check my passport to ensure it's not fake, and that it is actually MY passport, and then let me enter.

[HeatDeath 430]

I took my first trip out of the US since getting my GC in July. When I came back through US Customs and Immigration, they stamped my passport and wrote "ARC" [which apparently stands for "Alien Registration Card"] on the stamp. I think it's pretty normal.

[WARREN-IRINA 1]

I came back from Russia through JFK November 3, 2009.

Page 12 of my passport is the Visa given me by the Russian Embassy in San Francisco that I used to visit Irina.

Page 13 has the Russian “out by train” stamp when I left Russia on the train. Next to it is the stamp US customs put into it at JFK. It reads

*DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY* US CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION*

ADMITED NYC

NOV 03 2009.

Class Until_______ (Which is blank)

This was done when I passed through customs. I am the 11th generation born on U.S. soil dating to 1629.

I called my son and he and his wife (both born in US citizens) had their passports stamped the same when they came back from visiting her mother in Scotland in Mar. of this year at Newark.

I just talked with my daughter and both her and her husband’s passports (both born in US citizens) are stamped admitted when they flew back to Minneapolis St. Paul from Mexico in Feb. 2007.

As my daughter and SIL lives withj me I looked at her passport. The stamp is the same as mine except the point of entery is MSP.

JimVaPhuong if your passport is not stamped inducating you came back into the states through a port of entry can you prove at some future point in time you did not come in some other way smuggling illegals or contra band into the US?

On my first trip overseas I did not have a passport just millitary orders for Johnson's Southeast Asia war games. On returning on orders 18 months after I left I was processed into the country at Travis Air Force Base. They stamped the copy of my orders I had entered the US and give me orders to my next duty station. That was in June of 1968 and the detais are some where in my mind but I can not recall them now.

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

JimVaPhuong if your passport is not stamped inducating you came back into the states through a port of entry can you prove at some future point in time you did not come in some other way smuggling illegals or contra band into the US?

I don't have to prove anything. My passport is also not stamped by US immigration when I LEAVE the United States. It never has been.

How old is your passport? Does it have an RFID chip in it?

[sorchaine 10]

I traveled out of the country twice last year and my passport was not stamped by the US immigration at any point on either trip. I'm a US citizen. They just looked at it and then let me go. Two different airports, Houston and Atlanta.

[belinda63 3,038]

No stamps here either. It is the new passport with the chip, they just scanned it, and I traveled last in 2006. As to proving how I entered the US I am a citizen so there is no issue with my entering even if I swam the Rio Grande or took a boat from Cuba.