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Post by sassafras on May 20, 2016 10:38:36 GMT -5
Recently I heard that you need to show you have a return ticket if you want to fly from US to Colombia. What´s that all about?
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Post by gallito on May 20, 2016 10:48:30 GMT -5
The rule has been ìn effect for as long as I can remember.some airlines offer a refundable ticket ex Jet Blue.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2016 10:57:07 GMT -5
You don't need a return ticket if you have a Colombian visa.
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Post by gallito on May 20, 2016 11:03:15 GMT -5
Tourists require an onward ticket.
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Post by dandl93 on May 20, 2016 12:22:31 GMT -5
Is there any countries that dont require a return ticket if you enter on a Tourist Visa ?
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Post by billyb on May 20, 2016 12:43:32 GMT -5
Colombia may have to build a wall.
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Post by gallito on May 20, 2016 12:55:53 GMT -5
...not sure but a wallet full of cash seems to work jajajaja
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Post by sassafras on May 20, 2016 13:01:57 GMT -5
I´m only slightly confused by all this.....Ive flown into Colombia twice on a tourist visa with a one way ticket and never been asked to show any return ticket. I flew on Continental and Spirit. I just checked with two other gringos who visit Colombia for vacation each year on tourist visas and they never have been asked to show a return ticket. They fly on Jet Blue and Spirit. Now I just asked my Colombian neighbor. He and his wife have 10 year tourist visas to US and go each year to visit their family and they are never asked to show a return ticket to enter the US. They fly on Avianca. Soy confundido
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Post by gallito on May 20, 2016 13:27:41 GMT -5
Your Colombian vecina doesn't need one,only turistas need them;as mentioned different visas don't require it. Again buy a fully refundable return ticket and ask for your refund as soon as you arrive in Colombia. New laws give you 24 hours after you purchase a ticket to cancel it without penalty.Airline regulations require this otherwise they're on the hook for sending you back.
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Post by jafo19d on May 20, 2016 13:47:43 GMT -5
i don't think I was ever asked before so got my cédula or Colombian passport. Avianca asked me 1-2 times when they say me flying on a one way ticket but I just showed them my Colombian passport
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Post by gallito on May 20, 2016 13:54:18 GMT -5
i don't think I was ever asked before so got my cédula or Colombian passport. Avianca asked me 1-2 times when they say me flying on a one way ticket but I just showed them my Colombian passport The operative words are Colombian passport/cédula; Colombians don't require an airline ticket.
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Post by sassafras on May 20, 2016 13:56:45 GMT -5
Just heard back from three other gringo friends and a Colombian friend. One visited Medellin and Costa Rica and Ecuador last year and was never asked for a return ticket. Aother visited Pereira twice and not asked for ticket. The third, a Canadian, went to Cuba, British Virgin Islands and Medellin without return ticket. And a Colombiano told me he and his Colombian wife visited Canada, US and France last year without return tickets.
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Post by gallito on May 20, 2016 14:33:10 GMT -5
Entry is at the border agent's final discretion;granted you clear the airline hurtles forehand.What may or may not work rests on the fly's shoulders.
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Post by sassafras on May 20, 2016 14:41:53 GMT -5
If it is indeed a ¨rule¨ then it´s not being enforced. I posted the question on my Facebook page this morning and responses are still trickling in.......add Jamaica, Scotland, England, Spain, Germany and Amsterdam to the list of countries not requiring a return ticket. If it really is a rule it´s a dumb one. Any gangster narco trafficker is not going to hesitate to pay for the extra ticket if it will get him where he wants to go. And, what about people who drive or walk or take a train across the border? One poster on another forum called this an urban legend and I´m beginning to believe they may be right.
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Post by elexpatriado on May 20, 2016 14:54:20 GMT -5
I´m only slightly confused by all this.....Ive flown into Colombia twice on a tourist visa with a one way ticket and never been asked to show any return ticket. I flew on Continental and Spirit. I just checked with two other gringos who visit Colombia for vacation each year on tourist visas and they never have been asked to show a return ticket. They fly on Jet Blue and Spirit. Now I just asked my Colombian neighbor. He and his wife have 10 year tourist visas to US and go each year to visit their family and they are never asked to show a return ticket to enter the US. They fly on Avianca. Soy confundido Must be another one of those Colombian laws that never get enforced... I have flown into Colombia without a return ticket as well..with only a tourist visa. Actually I could have dug one up if they asked, but no one asked. Think its a bunch of BS
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Post by elexpatriado on May 20, 2016 15:00:41 GMT -5
That reminds me.. I never got my answer from the Ministerio de Salud whether it is required that a foreigner who has medicine Prepagada has to have EPS as well, but I am almost 100 percent sure you dont, but there are many benefits to EPS, I will post on my healthcare thread later when I have time and know all the details
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Post by gallito on May 20, 2016 15:04:04 GMT -5
It's only hearsay or "BS" when elex says so! The blind leading...
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Post by elexpatriado on May 20, 2016 15:27:47 GMT -5
It's only hearsay or "BS" when elex says so! The blind leading... Okay so Sassperelo has not been asked, I havent been asked and 7 people he knows havent been asked for a return ticket, You think it is something to worry about or just a bunch of BS? I know what my common sense tells me.
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Post by suba on May 20, 2016 17:04:39 GMT -5
You've all got it wrong.
The law is that tourists need a return ticket, however it's not at the Colombian border that this law is enforced it's at the point of departure from the home country. It's not Colombia ignoring this law it's the US, fly from London and it's enforced. I have flown in many times from Heathrow and no return ticket - no flight, I've also flown in from Dallas a number of times and Panama amongst other places and they don't ask.
In this instance it's not Colombia that isn't enforcing the law.
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Post by gallito on May 20, 2016 18:21:09 GMT -5
You experts are all the same...it's my way or the highway
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Post by billyb on May 20, 2016 18:30:07 GMT -5
You experts are all the same...it's my way or the highway If only everyone on here was as open minded as me☺
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Post by elexpatriado on May 20, 2016 18:35:22 GMT -5
You've all got it wrong. The law is that tourists need a return ticket, however it's not at the Colombian border that this law is enforced it's at the point of departure from the home country. It's not Colombia ignoring this law it's the US, fly from London and it's enforced. I have flown in many times from Heathrow and no return ticket - no flight, I've also flown in from Dallas a number of times and Panama amongst other places and they don't ask. In this instance it's not Colombia that isn't enforcing the law. Only Brits would pay attention to teeny tiny details like that. I buy all my tickets on line and nobody ever asks when I am getting my boarding pass in Canada (or Mexico, Nepa, Europe, Korea or anywhere) with my final destination is Colombia, and I am going through the US, the middle East , Asia or Europe, or directly from Canada if I have a return ticket or a Colombia visa. Nunca, Never. And I have taken literally hundreds of flights to and from Canada and several from Europe, Asia, Mexico to Colombia. So if there is a law, it is enforced as much as that law that states you will go yo jail for 10 year if you rip the manufacturers tag off of your mattress.
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Post by elexpatriado on May 20, 2016 18:38:16 GMT -5
You experts are all the same...it's my way or the highway I base my statements on experience and common sense, not conjecture, fear and some obscure ¨Law¨that keeps other Expats awake sleepless at night...
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Post by suba on May 20, 2016 18:39:28 GMT -5
"Only Brits would pay attention to teeny tiny details like that."
If that's your attitude then you need to think about moaning next time Colombia doesn't uphold one of their laws over here. A bit like when you complained about dogs being on the loose and you got bitten, it's just a teeny tiny detail - stop moaning.
Can't have it both ways. Apologies if this wasn't you but you get the point.
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Post by billyb on May 20, 2016 18:42:31 GMT -5
So if there is a law, it is enforced as much as that law that states you will go yo jail for 10 year if you rip the manufacturers tag off of your mattress. Jajaja, never figured that one out. But one day when feeling particularly rebelious, I ripped mine off, and for the next 6 months couldn't sleep worrying that the Feds were going to kick down my door.
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Post by elexpatriado on May 20, 2016 18:59:43 GMT -5
"Only Brits would pay attention to teeny tiny details like that." If that's your attitude then you need to think about moaning next time Colombia doesn't uphold one of their laws over here. A bit like when you complained about dogs being on the loose and you got bitten, it's just a teeny tiny detail - stop moaning. Can't have it both ways. Apologies if this wasn't you but you get the point. Wasnt moaning..just relating an interesting story
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Post by suba on May 20, 2016 19:23:30 GMT -5
I know you weren't - apologies. I sat in traffic today and watched cars in lanes turning left when they should be going straight on and of course causing massive queues. Saw drivers sat in the middle of junction boxes causing even bigger traffic jams (including in one case holding up an ambulance with flashing lights) and wished for at least a little bit of the British attitude of paying attention to things like that.
Drive like that in the UK and you are given a fine, don't pay and your car is crushed down to a metre square block of metal. The fines pay for decent police salaries and a transport infrastructure. Everyone wins, except the idiots who think they should be able to drive how they wish. Colombia would do well to copy.
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Post by dandl93 on May 20, 2016 21:53:27 GMT -5
Suba leave Colombian drivers alone.I went to Bogota monday and had the time of my life driving in and out of there.It is like across between a rollar coaster and bumper cars laughing and jamming all the way there and back. jajajajajajaj
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Post by gallito on May 20, 2016 21:58:17 GMT -5
Ok I drank a couple glasses of wine and sorrily inconsistent nevertheless Imho;the rules are subjective just like some of the posts on here.Assumedly Colombian migra doesn't want a bunch of scruffy backpackers sullying up their malls and high priced boutique hostels after which overstaying their visas and or not have sufficient funds to get their arses out of locumbia. "In addition to all your passport and visa information, most countries in the world have a protocol in place that requires you to provide an onward ticket (proof that you’ll actually be leaving their country) in order for you to enter. This will obviously create a problem if you didn’t know about it, and/or don’t have one. “Onward ticket” doesn’t mean you need a ticket home or out of that country specifically, but that you should have documentation that your travel will be continuing at a later date. For example, if you want to enter Thailand, your proof of onward travel could be a ticket 3 months later out of Singapore or Vietnam. This will work most of time but you should always double check with the consulate of the countries you’re planning on visiting to get their specific official requirements. Onward ticket protocols sometimes go unenforced, but when it is you should be prepared to show paperwork. Agents can deny boarding without proof of onward travel, or worse, when you do arrive you can be denied entry, forcing you to go back to you point of departure at your own expense. Governments initiated this process mostly to quell the flow of undocumented immigrants coming into a country for work, especially from bordering or nearby countries, not to discourage long-term tourists. Tourists however have been affected by the rule. A few countries that absolutely require proof of onward travel are Peru, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Philippines, Indonesia and Brazil among others." Read it or not;the internet is full of these responses.In the end ask the Colombian embassy or consulte for their interpretation. www.airtreks.com/ready/where-do-you-want-to-go/onward-tickets/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onward_ticketWhen in doubt hit up TA;a crew of "experts" waiting on your every whim... www.tripadvisor.ca/ShowTopic-g1-i10702-k8859812-Proof_Of_Onward_Travel-Air_Travel.htmlbooks.google.ca/books?id=hgU-GurBzOUC&pg=PT116&lpg=PT116&dq=Airline+regulations+governing+onward+tickets&source=bl&ots=VAZoSahJmT&sig=gKREq-4IEIhkAHfLY0dRSUKwONs&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Airline%20regulations%20governing%20onward%20tickets&f=falseeverywhereonce.com/2014/06/16/proof-of-onward-travel-required/www.worldtravelguide.net/colombia/passport-visa
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Post by suba on May 20, 2016 22:05:01 GMT -5
"A few countries that absolutely require proof of onward travel are Peru, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Philippines, Indonesia and Brazil among others."""
Which is why the UK enforce the rule. It's the airline that didn't check that foots the bill for a flight home, if the passenger is turned away in Bogotá.
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