UK Immigration: Showing return ticket
 

Hello,

I am traveling to London, staying for a week, then headed to Paris on the Eurostar for a few days, and then flying back to the States. My dilemma is that for some reason, the train website is not allowing me to correctly print my train ticket out of the UK and to France. If I show just my return airline ticket from Paris to Boston, 10 days after entering England, will that be enough to convince the immigration officers I am not trying to illegally immigrate to the UK ?


Thanks in advance.

If the question is asked. In all of our trips we have never been asked to show a return ticket. It is strictly up to the immigration office and your body english.

Surely the website will send you a confirming email?

Immigration officials book international plane and train tickets just like everyone else. If you strike the official processing you as a potential overstayer (the combination of youth, an antipodean accent and being a bloke practically guarantees you will: grey hair, a US passport and being a woman make it a great deal less likely) heaven knows how nit-picky he'll be. No harm in generating whatever other evidence you can that you'll be leaving soon.

What flanneruk said with the addition of being a very frequent traveler to the UK: you might have a boy/girlfriend and this might just be the trip where you decide to stay. Same thing with questions about money and whether you have sufficient resources.

I don't see why having an open jaw ticket should raise any red flags.. you have a departure ticket. No where does it say you have to have all your intra-European tickets purchased before arrival .

What IF you were driving there with some friends?


I, personally, wouldn't worry about it.

a US passport does NOT guarantee anything, including being asked for a ticket home. How anybody who doesn't have one would tell you otherwise is obviously done from reading too many tabloids.

She has a return ticket from Paris to Boston 10 days later.. or did I read it wrong?

take a copy of your paris hotel, too.. if you can't get an email about train travel, but I will be SHOCKED if this is a problem.

I have flown open - jaw in to London and out of Paris and was never asked more than the normal questions, nor ever how I was getting to Paris.

Yes - a ticket from Paris back to Boston will be fine. If anyone asks say you will spend a week in the UK then go to paris and fly home from there. The concern is people who have NO return ticket - not what city it is from.

Also - do know the name of your hotel - not having one is another red flag.

name and exact address of hotel ( Voice of experience) They don't want the name.. they also want the address...