Proof of Travel
Category
When the exit plan is overland, the onward-ticket check happens at the inbound check-in desk, not the land border. A compliance breakdown.
One-way digital nomads face proof-of-travel checks at check-in, immigration, and on visa forms. Here is how a dummy or onward ticket fits each checkpoint.
A Thailand border run to Laos or Cambodia rarely triggers an onward ticket check at the land crossing, but the flight home almost always does.
A Bali-Singapore visa run puts the same onward ticket through two separate border checks for two different reasons, and one mismatched date is enough to break the pattern.
When Yannick Drescher presented a third-party booking export at the Sadao crossing, the officer found no live PNR. This case study analyses the document gap and what compliant proof of onward travel requires.