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It's going to be a long 300km...
Bolivian Amazon



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Old 25 May 2017
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Hi Wickychicky

I actually did my trip in 2016 but skipped Sudan (for other reasons - i had a visa).

I travelled from RSA to Uganda on my first passport, collected the second one in Kampala, crossed into Kenya on the first passport (as i had an east african visa issued in by Rwanda) and then flew from Nairobi to Addis. I used the first passport to exit Kenya and the second to enter Ethiopia. This second passport also had my Sudan visa in it but not, i recall, my Egypt one.

I then flew from Addis to Cairo reversing the process. No issues anywhere.

(Actually not technically true. They kenyans argued with me for 10 mins about the scissors in my Nomad backpackers first aid kit. All the time i was swigging from my bottle of water. After 10 mins they relented on the scissors and started on the next bloke for having a water bottle which was not allowed. Realising my error I discretely put the top on my bottle, popped it in the rucksack, and moved on!!!!)


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Hahaha, nice one!
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Yes Warin but that is only two countries. What about the other couple of hundred places in the world.

And further, I know people who have exited one country with one dual nationality passport and then tried to enter the next country with the other one to avoid visa fees and they were refused entry because there was no proof that they exited the adjacent country legally. They had to own up to the other passport and pay the visa fees.
Reciprocity fee is one thing, but what about just plain requiring a visa? I have two passports, one is generally more accepted than the other, but the latter does not need a visa for Brazil, while the former does. I doubt Brazilian customs officers would refuse entry, would they?

Also, did anyone use passport swapping to successfully avoid reciprocity fees in SA? I get that it may depend on what the customs officer feels like that day, but are there any success stories?
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In Netherlands you have to have a business trip reason (with paperwork of an existing company) that you need two passports. But this is doable, we used it on the last trip.
Then you get only a 2 year passport (where the regular is now 10 years).

It was useful with the Pakistan situation. But customs or embassy people look up strange when they realize you have two passports. It is not common for them, and you can get questions about it. I did not encounter real problems, but I would not switch around passports in no mans land if it is not necessary.
Or when entering Pakistan, I did not show the second passport, but the guy kept asking why the passport was only 2 years. I just kept saying "I don't know"
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