US visa crminal record

Voyager2002

nelly wrote: »

Have you ever been?

It about the best place to holiday on the planet!

Except history its got everything! they treat you like royalty they pretty much have the best of everything and do it in style too.

The place is brilliant

and China is a bigger pain in the arrse to get in anyway

Well, tastes differ.

Yes, I have been a number of times and have experienced about 30 different states. My longest visit was for about five months.

"They have the best of everything." Well, try getting a decent cup of coffee anywhere outside the centres of the most cosmopolitan of their cities. Although I admit that New York has a decent selection of Ethiopian restaurants.

Yes, it is a nuisance that you need a visa for China, but I have never had any difficulty getting one.

nelly_2

Voyager2002 wrote: »

Well, tastes differ.

Yes, I have been a number of times and have experienced about 30 different states. My longest visit was for about five months.

"They have the best of everything." Well, try getting a decent cup of coffee anywhere outside the centres of the most cosmopolitan of their cities. Although I admit that New York has a decent selection of Ethiopian restaurants.

Yes, it is a nuisance that you need a visa for China, but I have never had any difficulty getting one.

Actually I'll give you the coffee thing ...considering they are coffee mad its hard to find a decent one.
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And chinas passport control is a joke

i_love_it

An update on this, trivial but alarming, during a conversation with another crew member, she was trying to swap off a flight to US because, a small time ago, during a search of her baggage, she was carrying a tin of heinz beans and sausage (ahem, the glamour of air crew) to heat and eat on the plane home, (we detest plane food) because of the prohibited content (you cannot take meat fruit or dairy into the us) it was converscated, the journey involved many entries into US ports and each time she was held back for questioning by local authorities each time her passport was read, delaying the rest of the aircrew in the group, at the 3rd port she was reduced to tears when a local offical finally explained that a note "smuggler" was endorsed on her passport and would remain for one year.....

Ludicrous, at best, certainly enough to put the girl off her job and not want to visit the states, but the point is, notes can be recorded on machine readable passport, but when and how, i'm yet to discover..... i'd give a guess that old stuff is not recorded on the chip, i don't think they have the resource as yet, in the future, i believe your every move will be recorded on it, but a long way off, i think any misdemeanour committed in the US or other countries may be recorded once your passport with chip is issued, but not that they can load data from the past, i think this, it's just my opinion, yet in the future, anything is possible, they check fingerprints and iris, but this is purely for identity right now, I've no doubt this will change 10 years or more from now........ fools to themselves, at somepoint no one will want to go there..........

pompeyrich

Rather than the notes being recorded on the passport itself, I would have thought that when they scan your workmates passport it brings up her entry/exit history on their screen and it is here that the "smuggler" tag is flagged up, so yes the info is recorded but on their system,not her passport.

gulife

alanrowell wrote: »

Some of the people advocating it DON'T have a criminal record - or even arrested

As to why

a) it's a major PITA getting a visa for the US - you have to apply for the form by a very expensive phone call, you have to hand over a large sum of money, you have to attend an interview at the US Embassy (at least one day off work) which in itself can take several weeks to organise, you have to get proof of your criminal record (or lack thereof) even if the crime was 60 years ago and even if you do get a visa there's no guarantee that you'll be allowed into the US as that is at the discretion of the immigration officer

b) it's stupid as unless you !!!! up the VW form or tell the immigration guy that you are a criminal there's no way of the US knowing that you are a criminal

I have applied for US Visa's about 5 times.... always a simple process, its all in plain english, and i always go to belfast and receive my visa back within 48 hours by special delivery. Of course it costs money - its not a free service! Not a 'PITA' at all. You just perceive it to be.

magic_pants

Bokkens wrote: »

Why does it not surprise me people with a criminal record advocating lying and cheating their way to a visa or entry to the states!

Well look, I take this attitude. I am British. I was born in Britain and I am am a British citizen. For better or worse I am bound by the laws of Britain and, while obviously not as speaky clean as yourself, I abide by the laws of Britain. My heinous crime was pinching a builders flashing road light when a student after a night out (which, incidentally, was handed to the rather over zealous copper at the time) and got a £10 fine for my troubles. Now, the fact is that it was 25 years ago AND the law of this country deems this now to be a SPENT conviction which means that, in the eyes of the law this means YOU ARE CONSIDERED NOT TO HAVE COMMITTED THE CRIME. So I think less cocky comments and more knowledge would go a long way towards you not sounding like a complete twonk.