Passport to usa advice needed please.

i_love_it

I wasn't refering to the chip. Anyhow, I admire your confidence.

The_Lambton_Worm

i_love_it wrote:

Sure, i've heard of it, here's a quote from the uk embassey site regarding travel to the US

Please note that the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act does not apply to U.S. visa law. If you attempt to travel without a visa, you may be refused entry into the United States at your personal expense.

Applicants who have been arrested or convicted are also subject to additional documentation and processing time.

I've first hand experience in this. I'm glad to have retained some niavety:rolleyes: But not in this area.

Where does it state that they can check whether you have a criminal record or not? It doesn't. Quite simply because they can't unless under special circumstances.

They are relying on the gullible to go and do the donkey work for them so they can then build their own database.

If you didn't mean the chip, what did you mean? A MRP is older than the Biometric passport and only holds data that is printed next to your picture. Data you can plainly see and read. Nothing else.

If you mean when your passport is scanned at immigration, then that is something completely different. All they are doing is checking against their own database or, in the current state of the world, if you're a security threat. And by that, I mean major drug dealers, mafia (gangsters), terrorists & people who've been banned from visiting the country they're trying to enter. In other words, people they already know about and have on their own database.

i_love_it

You are very informed, for the readers, can you back it up. You are right about the primary threats, drugs and terrorism, how do they get that information? Drug and terror criminals are gullible? They will declare this?

Like I said, it's a small risk, a risk all the same. I have had first hand experience of deportees , unsuspecting people refused entry for crime well in their past, they didn't declare it, yet i was privvy to their convictions on 3 occassions.

The_Lambton_Worm

The information is freely available on t'internet.

They get their information through intelligence gathering. Not through having 24/7 access to the our criminal record database.

Who said terrorists and drug dealers were gullible? If you think they are, then that's your prerogative.

Can you, for the benefit of the readers, give the details of why the three were deported?

i_love_it

The_Lambton_Worm wrote:

The information is freely available on t'internet.

They get their information through intelligence gathering. Not through having 24/7 access to the our criminal record database.

Who said terrorists and drug dealers were gullible? If you think they are, then that's your prerogative.

Could you provide links to this infomation that cancels the legal reqirements stated on all the offical websits.

Regards


For the Op, I applogise for the hijack of your thread and hope you got the required info and have a fabulous time.

The_Lambton_Worm

i_love_it wrote:

Could you provide links to this infomation that cancels the legal reqirements stated on all the offical websits.

Regards


For the Op, I applogise for the hijack of your thread and hope you got the required info and have a fabulous time.

What's the matter, not intelligent enough to use Google?

I also notice you ignored the request for providing details for your counter claims. Care to enlighten us as to why?

i_love_it

Yeah, you're right again. I'm just not smart enough.