Any news on whether there is stepped up enforcement upon entering the USA now that all citizens must use passports? Wondering how difficult it is to explain a stamp into Mexico at Cancun and arrival to the USA in the same day... could we have gone to Belize... any other explanation?
What is the cheapest Authorized Travel Provider for Cuban travel with the General License? Their tickets from Cancun seem to be about 100 premium on the cost of a ticket on Cubana or Aero Caribe. Also I suspect they charge a higher change fee.
Wondering if it's worth it to be covered in case.
Spend a couple of days in Cancun or return through a different gateway. Coming back HAV-MEX I have had Mexican immigration stamp me in and out twice in the same day. Try and explain that to U.S. immigration.
When I did it, our immigration didn't even notice.
I've been many times through Cancun on to L.A. While to go to Cuba Mexico stamps the passport twice, they're barely readable and I've never had immigration look at my passport that closely or even ask me if I was in Cuba. I'm pretty sure I'm on the suspicious list also since the first time I went to Cuba ('99) I was caught (at the time you had to ask Cuba not to stamp your passport- and I didn't know better).
I still say the safest and cheapest way to Havana is that Fantasia Ferry out of Key West.
Why don't you give them a call.
I like flying out of Mexico City to and from Havana, then back to TJ and cross the border on foot. Never a problem, especially if you live in socal or have a friend there. Plus if you come back through Mexico City, you can check your bags in Havana all the way to TJ--including the boxes of cigars that could well get nabbed by the gestapo aduana in Cancun.
Why not just go to Havana directly from T.J.?
pblee Wrote:Why not just go to Havana directly from T.J.?
Haven't looked at that in awhile, but last time I looked, there was a Sat-Sat charter from TJ to Havana, but that never fit into my plans. TJ-MEX-HAV and back worked just fine for me and no hassles at all, except the layover.
It's still Sat. to Sat. That really is the biggest problem with T.j. ....and getting to T.j.
salsita Wrote:.....for Cuban travel with the General License?
If you really qualify under a General License, whats the big deal? You can go from anywhere without impunity. Then again if you don't....
I took 55 cohibas through the Mexico City airport and got caught. The limit is 50. I pressed the button and hit red. They let me keep them but I just went into Mexico city again, 3 years latrer and got searched without hitting the button at all. It appears I have been flagged....
I watched and everyone else hit the button (Green/Red) I just got sent directly to the search desk.
senorshark Wrote:I like flying out of Mexico City to and from Havana, then back to TJ and cross the border on foot. Never a problem, especially if you live in socal or have a friend there. Plus if you come back through Mexico City, you can check your bags in Havana all the way to TJ--including the boxes of cigars that could well get nabbed by the gestapo aduana in Cancun.
Plus el D.F. es padrisimo.
I just got back fro Cuba by ways of Cancun. Immigration always puts the Cuban flights in the special line in which they check everything
pblee Wrote:I just got back fro Cuba by ways of Cancun. Immigration always puts the Cuban flights in the special line in which they check everything
ring ring...........You have reached the offices of OFAC.........please press 1 for reporting illegal travel to Cuba via Cancun..................
Dude, are you nuts? Some things are better left unsaid.
AK
angelking Wrote:pblee Wrote:I just got back fro Cuba by ways of Cancun. Immigration always puts the Cuban flights in the special line in which they check everything
ring ring...........You have reached the offices of OFAC.........please press 1 for reporting illegal travel to Cuba via Cancun..................
Dude, are you nuts? Some things are better left unsaid.
AK
Dumbass.. Do you realize that everybody who marries a Cuban has in one way or another has been to Cuba. When you apply for a fiancee visa or a marriage visa they don't ask you how you got there . There's no notice from OFAC. Unless you're just rubbing it in there face, OFac has alot better and, important things to do with their time nowadays.
pblee Wrote:angelking Wrote:pblee Wrote:
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OFac has alot better and, important things to do with their time nowadays.
Like what exactly?