Visa requirements to UK, France, Italy, Holland for US Green Card Holders

What passport will you be traveling with? That determines what other paperwork you will need.

The US Green Card will let you (actually require you to) use the US passport holder lines when you return to the US, but it does not change your citizenship for the purpose of entering other countries.

I don't have a passport, after I received my U.S. Green Card I applied for a U.S. travel document. I have already used this travel document to enter into Mexico without needing a Visa and was wondering if its the same for Italy, Amsterdam or Croatia?

josh,

AFAIK, you WILL need a Passport to travel internationally. If you have a U.S. Green Card, what is your country of origin?

My country of origin is Israel but I am U.S. green card holder using a department of homeland security temporary travel document.

Unless your DHS documents allow you to apply for a U.S. Passport, you might try contacting the Israeli Embassy to obtain a Passport. I doubt that foreign governments will accept your "temporary travel document", so I believe a Passport will be required to travel to Europe. Your case sounds a bit unusual. Did you not have a Passport when you first entered the U.S.?

I would contact the immigration attorney who has been helping you with your status in the US. They will be able to better advise you on your ability to travel.

@ josh4phones, Are you saying that you do not have a Israeli passport and cannot get one? Perhaps, you are a stateless person or do not want to use your passport for this trip. If so do you have a US reentry permit? If you do, you can travel to France, Italy and the Netherlands with that in lieu of a passport. You'd have to check the UK's rules; I don't know them. The documentary requirements for travel to Mexico for residents of the US are quite different from the requirements for Europe. But, it comes down to this, if you are an Israeli national and have an Israeli passport, you need to check the visa requirements for the countries on your list. If you have no Israeli passport and cannot get one or do not want to use the one you have and are not yet a US citizen and do not have a reentry permit, you should contact the consulates of the countries and ask them what you need to present to be allowed entrance into the UK and the Schengen Zone (for the other 3 countries). My guess is that you are going to have to wait until you have your reentry permit.

This is absolutely the wrong site for information that is this critical. You need to contact the Italy embassy or a near by consulate. You might also contact the office that issued the travel document to see if they have any advice for you.

I hold a green card and a German passport. When I travel I use my German passport to go abroad and when I come back home to the USA I show my German passport and my green card. I am in the process of becoming an American citizen and then will have 2 passports. I also agree this is the wrong site to ask these questions. You need to contact your home country and apply for a passport or your embassy here. The Italians will not have the answers you are not Italian. Regardless of any citizenship I would think a passport would be needed to go anywhere in the world.

Some people cannot get passports from their home country and so there is a process in place in the United States for those people and it is the Reentry Permit. There are all types of people in the US including people who arrived here as refugees and stateless persons and persons who cannot use or obtain a passport from their country to birth but have a green card. They are not stuck here in the US unable to travel. Many Schengen Area countries have explicitly indicated that they will accept the U.S. Re-entry Permit for visa issuance purposes including the Netherlands, France, and Italy. Just because the answer is coming from a travel forum does not mean that it is incorrect. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Re-entry_Permit if you don't know what a re-entry permit is or what one looks like. You might still have to get a visa but you would use the permit instead of the passport as the travel document. Recently, the French consulate in DC told a friend of mine (a person who arrive in the US as a refugee) that he does not need a visa to enter France as long as he presents the re-entry permit.

Just because the answer is coming from a travel forum does not mean that it is incorrect.

True but in this thread alone there is conflicting advice and the OP has no way to determine which is correct. And often we are not given all the pertinent information. There are many types of "travel documents" and reasons why a person may not have a passport. Making assumptions about those issues risks giving very incorrect advice.

This is a case in which the OP should discuss with US Immigration, which issued the travel document and/or their home embassy. Or an immigration attorney/counselor.

If you have not legally renounced your Israeli citizenship, then you should still be an Israeli citizen and can get an Israeli passport at your nearest Israeli consulate. You can enter those countries on an Israeli passport as easily as a US passport (lots of us do that every year☺), receiving the same 3-month tourist visa that Americans get.

If you are "stateless," then I think you need to contact the consulate of each country you plan to visit and find out if the travel document you have will allow you to obtain a tourist visa.

BTW if you visit Israel, you must enter and exit the country on an Israeli passport as long as you still hold Israeli citizenship. On the bright side, you get free visas to Turkey and Russia with an Israeli passport.

Edit: According to this Homeland Security page, you need a passport from your country of citizenship.

The page linked to above says: "In general, you will need to present a passport from your country of citizenship or your refugee travel document to travel to a foreign country. In addition, the foreign country may have additional entry/exit requirements (such as a visa). For information on foreign entry and exit requirements, see the Department of State’s webpage."

I agree that there are conflicting responses on this thread and we do not have all the details. But that being said, it is just incorrect to insist that a person holding a US green card must have a passport from their country of origin in order to travel outside of the United States. Generally, that is true but it is not correct for stateless people, refugees or persons who cannot use their passports to travel to the country that they wish to visit.