Caribbean Cruise - Passport/Visa?
For a cruise a Passport is required. Does the passport get stamped even though you won't get out of the ship during the time of your cruise?
If a person is on an F-1 student status visa and is transfering to another school is it possible to go out of America during the transfer visa process?
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First of all the rules for cruising for a US citizen are as follows. If you are a US citizen and depart from and return to the same port, what's called a loop cruise, you can use for citizenship identification a passport, passport card, or the original of your birth certificate along with a photo ID. So if you are leaving for the Caribbean from any port around the US and you are a US citizen then this rule applies.
Second, when you check in at the pier for your cruise you MUST present whichever you will be using, you passport, or birth certificate. The documents will be reviewed and then returned to you and you will NOT need them the rest of the cruise, and not until you return to the US port when Immigration officials will examine your documents. You will NOT need your passport or birth certificate to depart and/or reenter the ship when it makes port stops. At check-in you will be issued a cruise card which will serve as your ID for leaving and returning to the ship, as well as your room key, and on-board credit card. So you will NOT get any stamps an immigration points at the Caribbean ports.
Your third question I have no idea what an F-1 student visa is and most likely you'll need to take to US immigration officials about it's limitations.
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