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14. American citizens are urgently 
advised to obtain visas from the appro¬ 
priate foreign consuls stationed in this 
country before beginning their jour¬ 
neys, since it is understood that the regu¬ 
lations of a number of foreign countries 
require that a visa be obtained before the 
American leaves the United States. This 
is particularly true of Americans travel¬ 
ing to Great Britain via Canada and of 
Americans proceeding to Poland, Persia, 
or India. 
15. Americans who intend to travel in 
certain foreign countries, and in the out¬ 
lying dominions, colonies, mandated ter¬ 
ritories, or dependencies of such coun¬ 
tries, are cautioned to inquire regarding, 
and obtain, if necessary, specific visas 
not onfy for the foreign country, but for 
the outlying dominions, colonies, man¬ 
dated territories, or dependencies, in 
which they intend to travel, especially 
if they are proceeding to the Levant 
States under French mandate. 
16. The visa regulations of foreign 
governments are enforced directly by the 
representatives of those governments. 
The Department of State does not under 
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any circumstances act as intermediary in 
obtaining visas from representatives of 
foreign countries. 
It is an accepted maxim of international law, 
that every sovereign nation has the power, as 
inherent in sovereignty, and essential to self- 
preservation, to forbid the entrance of foreign¬ 
ers within its dominions, or to admit them only 
in such cases and upon such conditions as it 
may see fit to prescribe (142 U.S. 651). 
IT. It is understood that persons pro¬ 
ceeding as immigrants to foreign coun¬ 
tries must have their passports visaed. 
Particular inquiry should be made by 
American citizens of the diplomatic and 
consular officers of the countries to which 
they expect to proceed whether they will 
be classed as immigrants and for that 
reason be required to be in possessions of 
passports and visas. In order to establish 
whether they will be classed as immi¬ 
grants they should be careful to make 
clear to such officers the reason for their 
intended visit and the duration of their 
intended stay. 
18. No visas are required of nonimmi¬ 
grant American citizens intending to 
sojourn briefly in Belgium, British Hon¬ 
duras, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, 
Denmark, Dominican Republic, Haiti, 
Honduras, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, 
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