However, others may issue fines or refuse entry if you have travelled to Israel. Israel does not prohibit travellers from entering the country on the basis of having certain stamps in their passports.
However, Israeli border control is notorious for being strict. This is simply for the purposes of safety. You may be asked questions about your previous travels. This is especially the case if you have travelled to places such as Iran and Iraq. I have passed through Israeli border control several times. I did not receive any serious questioning or interrogation. Additional checks do happen occasionally. For instance, if you have just returned from somewhere like Iran or Iraq, the Border Guards may ask to check your electronics, your phone, and your social media.
Keep calm, remember this is a safety procedure, and cooperate with the Israeli border guards. This is good practice wherever you travel. There is no way that you will be flagged up as having previously travelled to Israel if you do not receive a passport stamp. Rest assured, there is no high-tech spy level technology that records this. Similarly, if you had an Israel passport stamp in a previous passport, it will not affect you travelling on your new one.
You should never rip a page out of your passport. The entire document is essentially voided if you remove a page because you received an Israel passport stamp,. This article is up to date to the best of my knowledge. However, processes can change overnight so it is better to double-check everything before you travel. Do you still have any additional worries or concerns about the Israel passport stamp?
Do you need help planning an Israel itinerary? If my passport expires and I get it renewed — so it is like a blank passport! Can immigration officials still pull up computerized records?
Avantika I am sorry for the delay in replying — I was travelling in Uzbekistan with not much internet. There is no way that immigration can see that information without a stamp. Enjoy your trips! I am taking a tour trip that will include Israel and Jordan. Your trip sounds wonderful — hope you will have a great time! Even crossing by land between Israel and Egypt, or Israel and Jordan is possible.
Jordan will stamp a passport on entry into the country at any point eg Queen Alia Airport. Crossing to Israel via the Allenby Bridge, the passport will not be stamped with an exit stamp from Jordan — this is a red rag to an enthusiastic bull. An entry stamp into Jordan without an exit stamp suggests to any conscientious border official that the only possible route was an entry into Israel. The way around this is to then exit Israel and re-enter Jordan.
Israel will neither stamp your passport on entry, nor on exit, at Allenby Bridge. Hey Steve — Thank you very much for your input! When I travelled to Jordan, I did receive both entrance and exit stamps when crossing via the land border so I think it can depend.
I think someone must visit Isreal such a nice country and one of the worlds best economy. These countries should remember that nothing is there in their countries. One should not pass judgement and call a country stupid because of their policies shows a lack of intelligence.
I am a world traveler and when I visit a country I respect their culture and laws. I have been to Lebanon one of those countries you refer as stupid which is one of the most beautiful countries I have visited. I just read your article above. To confirm, if vice versa, my friend has a Bahrain stamp on her passport, she will not be denied entrance to Israel via a cruise?
Thank you for any knowledge you can share. Officially no, Israel do not ban people with Bahrain stamps from entering the country. Of course, I cannot speak for what will happen with the Immigration Officer on the day. This is according to the Iranian embassy while applying for my own Iranian visa.
Later if I wish to visit Saudi Arabia, then it may create an issue? In general having Visa on your passport does not mean that you visited that country. Btw, I am planning to visit Israel as a tourist. Hey Shadab, I hope you are well. An Israel visa printed in your passport essentially acts the same way as an Israel passport stamp so it can cause issues in the countries mentioned as they do not have a good relationship with Israel.
In the case of going to Saudi, I know a few people who had been there on work trips in the past with no problem.
Now Saudi are also opening their doors to tourism and have introduced an e-visa which does not ask anything about Israel. My advice to you would be to email your local Saudi consulate and ask them what their thoughts are. I am not sure if Saudi immigration will be checking passports for this on arrival.
Erm, pardon you but this article has been here for years! I briefly updated it!! Nobody is copying your information! Hi I m Mike from Nigeria nd I also have Dominican republican visa so I want to know if I ll be allowed entrance nd what re my chances of getting in. After a quick Google search, it appears that Nigerians need a visa to enter Israel as a tourist.
We travel four or five time a year from Australia into Indonesia where we have an orphanage and school so of course we have many Indonesian stamps in our passports but we also hold a UK passport is it better to use this one for Israel rather than our Aussie passport?
Hi Mike and Ann, Hope you are both well. You ought to be fine. Israeli border control can often ask a lot of questions about stamps but it seems to be part of the process rather than anything interrogative. I had a lot of stamps in my passport from Turkey had to travel there a lot with my old job , and a lot of Middle Eastern countries.
The Israeli passport control guys asked me what I had done in those countries but just seemed to be standard questions they ask. My cousin is going to be visiting his brother-in-law in Dubai soon. He is an Indian passport holder. My concern is he will have a UAE stamp on his passport and later next year he would need to travel to Israel as well. Will the UAE stamp on his passport restrict his entry into Israel or reject his visa application? Hi Rebecca, I would advise you to contact your Israeli consulate if you are concerned.
However officialy no, Israel do not ban you from entering or getting a visa if you have stamps and visas in your passport from UAE, or even countries that do not recognise Israel such as Iran and Lebanon. Most people can get a tourist visa free for 30 days. If you do have a different stamp or sticker, I also entered Israel with a residence visa for the United Arab Emirates. Israel does not deny entry for people based on where they were.
You can expect to be asked a lot of questions, and you must answer them all truthfully and politely, no matter how silly they seem. The questions are designed to find out whether you are telling the truth, and as long as your purpose in visiting Israel is tourism and not any other activity, you should have no problems at all. I entered Israel with an Iranian visa in my passport in March I was held for questioning at Tel Aviv airport for 4 hours.
The actual interview only took 15 minutes, the rest of the time was just waiting luckily with free wifi! Some other people waiting in room for the same kind of reasons had to unlock their phones and show their social media accounts.
I guess the waiting time is completely random, depending on the amount of people they have to interview. On my way out I got the same kind of questions, just not the 4 hour waiting time. There I also had to explain why I went to Malaysia and if I still have contacts there etc. Hi there, thanks for the heads up. In March, there was some tension between both countries on Syrian territory, so that might explain why.
Hi Eli, I am not sure about visas… This post is more aimed at people who travel to Israel, hence they may get a stamp. Hi, I was wondering if you knew whether it is possible to travel to Egypt after visiting Israel, and vice versa? If you want to visit the rest of Egypt e. Cairo you need to either fly to Egypt or to go to Aquaba and take a boat to Nuweiba — which can be quite an adventure but also fun.
My passport had a stamp from UAE at that time. That and a single women is an obvious sign for danger I had the same problem on the way back. The first check in Berlin has not been a 15 minutes check only, they even took my backback in Berlin and have checked it behind a closed curtain!
I was not able to see it what they were doing. I mean check bags behind curtains. There is an existing bias agains single women traveling to Israel, which has been confirmed by other travellers at the airport too.
Do you have any advise on this? In June I have to travel again the same way. Now I have an additional stamp from Egypt. I will see what has been changed. I have asked for an invitation letter from our customers now to make it more simple.
I was wondering if I should travel maybe with my Hungarian passport becasue that only has my US entries included mainly, but decided to keep to the German, maybe that would be confusing for the Israelis, if they somehow see I have several passports. You cannot really avoid this when leaving Israel.
If you fly any other carrier, there may or may not be special checks which are usually much faster. I found it extremely helpful. I have a question that might sound extremely stupid, but others can be in my situation. I have no israeli stamps in my passport, but I have the stickers from tel aviv airport and anotherone from allenby bridge on the back cover of my passport, does those count as stamps? Would those two stickers create problem if I go to Tunisia for work?
Or is Tunisia still allowing people with Israeli stamps? Do you know if I will have any consequences if I take the stickers away from my passport and then go to Israel again?
How did you get them? Do you mind sending to a pic to my private email? Or just tell me what kind of sticker is it. That would be very helpful so I can update the post accordingly, thanks! Hey, I have several friends who have crossed the border to Israel multiple times and removed the sticker afterwards.
Like Balerina said below: it seems to be just for security at the airport so they know how seriously to question you. I do not think it is something official, probably it just helps the guys working at the security at the airport to cathegorize you and treat you accordingly.
Hello , im planning to travel to Israel, from Cairo to Tel Aviv by Air, will the immigration stamp my passport? Or tell them not to do so.
I emailed you, but just saw that I could post here. I need advice regarding travel from Saudia Arabia to Israel via Jordan and back again. My husband works for a large company in Riyadh and I live in Israel.
Husband has several passports including one with a Saudi work visa. I know he will get an entry stamp from Jordan when he arrives at the airport, and he will need when when he leaves from the airport to return to Riyadh.
The question is, how does he safely exit and re-enter Jordan at the Sheikh Hussein crossing? BTW — he will be entering and exit Israel on his Israeli passport.
What do you mean by re-entering to Jordan safely? What do you understand by safely? If he uses his U. Passport with the Saudi Work Visa to enter Jordan, he will get a stamp in it. Or should he use his other U. Then he will be getting a taxi to Sheikh Hussein where he will get an exit stamp? He will then enter and exit Israel with his Israeli passport. He will return to Saudi Arabia via Jordan, and he will need to buy a second visa at the border.
He will also need to get an exit stamp in or on something which passport? He can only get back into Saudi with his Saudi visa.
I am thinking that he only uses the Passport with Saudi Visa to leave Saudi, to check onto the Queen Aliyah passport for his flight back and when entering Saudi again. It would then only have an exit and entry mark from Saudi and nothing else in it. Would that work or will Jordan require a passport with an exit stamp when HEB first flies into Jordan?
Estamos barajando la posibilidad de visitar Jerusalem, ya que estamos muy cerca. Alquilaremos un coche para nuestro recorrido por Jordania. Lo ves posible? I just want to give a general follow-up comment to my original post regarding travel between Jordan and Israel when Passport Holder needs to return to Saudi Arabia for work. I spoke with an official at the Jordanian Embassy in Israel and he advised that when exiting Jordan at Sheikh Hussein Border, tell him NOT to put an exit stamp on the passport and show him your return ticket to Saudi Arabia.
There should be no problem. I know that Israel will not stamp either. My husband will be using his U. So does this mean that you will only have one entry stamp for Jordan? Or are you planning to come back to Jordan through the same border and exit through Saudi overland? The only thing that will be in U. The other alternative is to only use that passport to enter and exit Saudi Arabia; the same way we use our Israeli passport, and our U.
Yesterday though we were looking at our U. I will update after he completes this trip! I was planning to fly in to Tel Aviv, travel in Palestine before crossing into Jordan for a few days before flying to Lebanon. Would it be better for me to avoid the overland crossing into Jordan and fly from Tel Aviv to Amman instead? Unfortunately, that would be a risk, so it would be wiser to fly or just visiting Lebanon first.
As I mentioned before, my husband, who is a dual U. He used his U. Passport with Israeli visa for exiting Jordan, and his Israeli visa for the entering Israel. He returned today but this time, when he entered Jordan, they told him he had to use his Israeli visa to enter and exit because he could only use one passport. That proved to be the case. He said all they really did was check his fingerprint when he returned to make sure it was the same person coming in that had previously exited.
I am travelling to Israel in November and using Abraham tours to have 3 da tour of Jordan. My question is, if I were to ask the border officials to not stamp my passport will they abide?
If they do not agree and stamp my passport will I still be able to travel to countries like Dubai and Malaysia? Hi I am Shakib, i am a Bangladeshi and i want to go to Jerusalem.
Is it possible to enter Israel as a Bangladeshi passport holder? But is it possible to another country with Bangladeshi passport? Please give me this information and Thank you so much for your information. Thank you very much for your reply. My query is more around when I cross the border to visit Jordan for 3 days — will the Jordanian authorities stamp my passport and could I ask them not to?
Will Israel stamp my passport? Israel stamped my passport entering at Aqaba and again departing at the Jordan River. I asked them not to at both locations and they did it anyway. Yes, I would be happy to send you a picture. When did this happen by the way? Did this happen to other travelers as well? I have not seen anyone running around with a stamp on the Israeli side and also have not heard that anyone else got a stamp. How much trouble will this cause in future travels is the question that haunts us now.
My main concern is that i have a return flight home with Saudi Air and a layover in Jeddah. So my question is will i face a problem taking my flight at either Jordan or Saudi Immigration? Note: 1. I only want to layover in Jeddah and not exit the airport. My passport is expiring anyway so I do not really care about Israel stamp unless it will pose a problem for my return flight home.
Your help is much appreciated! Actually, I know from quite a few Israelis who have done layovers in Dubai and it was all right. I will be flying, so not crossing any of the land borders, but when I arrive in Aqaba and they stamp my passport, will there be any indication of where I came from? You can fly to Aqaba from many places, so I guess you will have a stamp from Aqaba airport which has nothing to do with Israel. Hello Joan In your article, you mention that how to avoid a Jordanian stamp shows that you have been to Israel,but what about the opposite direction?
Looking for your reply. This is my personal experience. Israel embassy gives a visa pasted in your passport. So for them like us, Indians there is no point whether the immigration officer stamp your passport or not. I recently spoke to the Qatar Embassy in the UK and you are correct in saying the Israel stamp is not an issue for those wishing to enter Qatar. A very helpful article on a confusing issue but I would still always advise ringing the appropriate embassy before making assumptions.
Just a small correction, Lebanon is not a Muslim country and could only be considered as Arab. You could fix that in your article. Thank you. I was just wondering about the questioning when passing security. Or would that just cause problems for me? I went to Israel in but have renewed my passport this year. If I fly from Istanbul to Tel Aviv for two days visit then fly back to Istanbul, I assume my passport will be stamped by the Turkish immigration officers when leaving and flying back to Istanbul.
I am worried some smart custom officers from those countries which have issues with people visiting Isreal may work out I visited Isreal from the two Turkish exit and entry stamps. They may assume but they have no proof that you flew to Tel Aviv and possibilities of flying somewhere else are endless.
Hi Joan! So is it more likely to get a Jordanian entry stamp if I do an overland border crossing from Israel to Jordan than a over air one? In April, I will be flying in to Amman for 9 days. During that stay, I want to go to Jerusalem through the Allenby crossing. I understand that my Jordanian visa will still be valid because it will be under 2 weeks old, and I will be going through the same crossing going in and out of Jerusalem.
I will be visiting Dubai and Kuwait afterwards I will not be able to visit them before Jerusalem. However my question is regarding the stamping. I will ask the Israeli authorities not to stamp my passport…how about the Jordanian ones? I do not want them stamping an exit and entry because this will show that I went out of the country by land during my stay. Can I simply ask them not to stamp both ways? Also, my Jordanian visa will show two-entries…will that not raise flags as well?
Or do I toss out the Jordanian visa after I leave the country? Since you are coming back to Jordan, you have the entry and exit stamp from Queen Alia airport. Hi Hana! Im planning a one day visit to Jerusalem from Amman, crossing the border by the Allenby Bridge. Or i can just get to the border and do all the paperwork there? Whats the easiest way to get to the border? I live in Kuwait so i will have Kuwaiti stamps, do you know if it will be a problem?
The airline has much heavier security measures than other airlines for entering Israel. Non-Jewish flyers can expect routine questions pertaining to why they are visiting Israel and about any stamps in their passport from Muslim countries. Upon departure from the Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, all passengers are questioned before check-in. In theory, the questioning should not be hostile: just very thorough and possibly invasive. During my exit from Israel a few weeks ago, I was questioned exhaustively about several stamps in my passport from destinations such as the UAE, Morocco, Malaysia and Indonesia.
I was asked if I knew people in any of those countries, where I had stayed and what my purpose was for traveling there. Megan Robertson, a video editor and producer at TPG, remembers being questioned about her visit to Turkey, as well as her reasons for visiting Israel. The first number on the sticker is your flag as a perceived security threat.
The numbers range from one, the lowest, to six, the highest. And I got a five. After check-in, I was sent to a special security line, where every single one of the belongings in my carry-on was taken out, examined and tested for explosives.
I walked through the metal detectors and was patted down despite not setting the alarm off. It was annoying and, frankly, a little embarrassing, but not a huge deal. However, those with a sticker with the first number as six should be ready for an even more intense search.
US citizens who have traveled to Muslim countries or who are of Arab, Middle Eastern or Muslim origin may face additional questioning by immigration and border authorities. After my intense security screening, I headed to immigration, where I was given a pink exit paper — a replacement for my exit stamp. You may also go through an e-gate for immigration, which issues you this pink paper.
I was able to keep both the blue entry card and the pink exit one, and faced no additional questioning at immigration or during the boarding process. And leave the blue and pink papers those Israeli entry and exit cards at home, too. Judaism specifies that Shabbat — from Friday at sundown to sundown on Saturday — should be kept as a holy day. For this reason, all public offices and many businesses are closed on Shabbat. As a result, your travel may be affected.
While most airlines operate flights in and out of Israel during these hours, El Al normally does not. Security may take longer, too. Public transportation such as trains and buses may not be operating at all or be operating with a restricted schedule, so plan accordingly to arrive at the airport in time.
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