Monday, January 23, 2012

Can a US citizen travel to Europe with a one way ticket?

I'm planning a nice round-the-world trip and I've started by going to Europe. I booked a one-way flight to Ireland and I'm concerned that they may give me flak about not having a return ticket. Can I explain to them what my plan is? I can bring bank statements showing my travel funds. Any hope of not getting booted out of the country?Can a US citizen travel to Europe with a one way ticket?If you check the IATA database which is provided by aircraft carriers so that passenger may check their passport/visa requirements, you can read for Ireland:



Visitors must hold sufficient funds. Immigration officers can request visitors travelling to Ireland (Rep. of) to show return/onward tickets or prove their intention to travel by other means of transportation. A person not holding tickets, must be able to prove to the immigration officer, the intention to leave the country, or otherwise risk being denied entry.



So you actually don't need a return ticket, but it would be a good tool holding proof of a flight/ferry reservation to leave the island.Can a US citizen travel to Europe with a one way ticket?We have traveled from the states to eastern Europe to visit family with a one way ticket several times.

sometimes they do ask allot of questions and other times not.

Once we had to show them our funds and my husband had a paper stating he he owed some property in Europe.

They will probably be more curious about your lugguage and go through your items, this also happened to us a couple of times.

It is a good idea to show your bank statements or other papers or cash toshow you have enough on hand to buy a return ticket.Can a US citizen travel to Europe with a one way ticket?Showing enough travel funds is not enough to dissuade custom officials should they deny you entry because you could be suspected of going in to work without a work permit. You better show proof that you have reasons in your home country worthy of your return, e.g. a house, a really fat financial account.
  • luigi games
  • language translation
  • No comments:

    Post a Comment