St. Thomas and Customs - Page 4 - Cruise Line Fans: Cruise Reviews and Chat From Real Cruisers

Blizzard · 12-12-2005, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by MrPeteLI

It's not customs. You do not claim anthing till the end of your cruise.

It is immigration, and you only have to do it if St. Thomas is your re-entry into the US AND you are not sailing to another foreign port. In other words, your next and final stop is the US as well.

Not quite.

We went Miami, Coco Cay, St Thomas, St Martin, Miami.
We had to do it.

sweet angel · 12-12-2005, 10:34 PM

Isn't Coco Cay in the Bahamas?

MrPeteLI · 12-13-2005, 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Blizzard

Not quite.

We went Miami, Coco Cay, St Thomas, St Martin, Miami.
We had to do it.

Are you saying you did immigration twice?

AngieBaby · 12-13-2005, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by MrPeteLI

Are you saying you did immigration twice?

Sweet Angel.....Yes Coco Cay is the Bahamas...a foreign port

Mrpete...I was on this same cruise with Blizzard, and we went thru immigration at St Thomas at at the end of the cruise back in Miami. We left the US went to a foreign port, came back to a US territory (went thru immigration), left and went to another foreign port and came back to the US having to go thru immigrationa again

Blizzard · 12-13-2005, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by MrPeteLI

Are you saying you did immigration twice?

Yes

AngieBaby · 12-31-2005, 01:23 PM

Hi...just bumping this up for the New Year and all the new members! Hope this helps. Welcome aboard!

Ziggy7 · 12-31-2005, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by AngieBaby

Sweet Angel.....Yes Coco Cay is the Bahamas...a foreign port

Mrpete...I was on this same cruise with Blizzard, and we went thru immigration at St Thomas at at the end of the cruise back in Miami. We left the US went to a foreign port, came back to a US territory (went thru immigration), left and went to another foreign port and came back to the US having to go thru immigrationa again

yikes! Thats alot of immigration! eeeks! :thumbsdow:thumbsdow:thumbsdow

EJ · 01-19-2006, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by floflegs

What if you are British? Do you have it at all ports?

Only if you come from a foreign port into a US territority. It is only the US immigration that insist on these checks. All other ports do a blanket check/clearance through the ship.

ohiocruiser · 02-01-2006, 05:31 PM

Please don't confuse customs with immigration. When you leave the US and reenter, gotta go through immigration -- even in midtrip. At the end of your trip, you go through customs, immigration too if you left the US again.