Travel to the US with a stamp from Israel in my passport
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- Aparna Patel
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- 19 Jul, 2023
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Despite all the other answers and comments found here, I must interject that my friend is taken into the border office for questioning every time I drive with him into the United States, because he has Israeli stamps in his passport. He is Canadian; his wife is Israeli (living in Canada) and they travel to Israel on occasion.
I do not know why they do this. He has never been actually barred from entry.
Israel never stamps passports at Ben Gurion (TLV) Airport. They always hand you a separate ticket to keep with your passport. As per the other answers, the USA is about the last place to worry about for this subject, but, in fact, there’s no stamp to worry about at all.
More than a quarter of Israeli exports go to the United States and 13% of imports come from there. Not only does a free trade agreement exist between the USA and Israel but it was the first such agreement the USA entered into. Many large USA companies operate significant research centers there including Intel, Microsoft, Apple. Notably the Haifa research center have pulled out Intel of the Pentium 4 dead end. Whatever you think of president elect Donald Trump, it’s notable he is an investor there and so is Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. The close and multifaceted economical ties would be impossible if there would be any such problems.
Oh and the military of the two country are also cooperating on many levels, see Israel–United States military relations.
The Israel passport stamp may cause a entry problem with when visiting the following countries, not USA:
there does seem to be some consensus as to which countries do restrict access. They are as follows:
Syria,
Lebanon,
Libya,
Kuwait,
Iran,
Iraq (except the northern Kurdish region),
Sudan,
Yemen,There have also been reports of problems entering the following countries:
Saudi Arabia (reportedly not strictly enforced due to pressure by the U.S.)
Malaysia,
Pakistan,
Algeria,
Indonesia,
U.A.E,
Source: Onlince Resources
However coming back to your question
Does anyone know if I’m going to face any problems at the border with
a stamp from Israel?
USA is the country which has recognized Israel since 31 January 1949. And in ‘International recogination of Israel’ doesn’t say that USA doesn’t accept Israeli Passport either. Therefore Israeli stamp on your German passport not a problem when entering USA.
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