Jackolantern
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I think you can avoid it if you become a citizen.I asked him how to avoid all this hassle next time, he said there's no way to avoid it, it will happen every single time.
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I think you can avoid it if you become a citizen.I asked him how to avoid all this hassle next time, he said there's no way to avoid it, it will happen every single time.
I think you can avoid it if you become a citizen.
What did they ask you? Did you have to show them your court paper?
Sorry to hear your story, I am thinking to cancel my trip to visit my mother this summer. I won't go abroad till I got citizenship.
I agree, once they have cleared it up they should tag the incident appropriately so the next time it shows up the officer knows not to bother you.I will become a US citizen. However, I don't see the point in harassing any permanent resident with absolutely no criminal record about an issue since long resolved, certified documentation/proof provided in 2006 that all charges were dropped and researched again yesterday. Any such 'investigation' is absolutely pointless to the security of USA and a total waste of the government's resources.
I have been permanent resident since 91. Came back from Europe the other day & I got sent into the secondary room at immigration. After a 90 minute wait, my name was called and the immigration officer asked me if I have ever been arrested and I said 'yes'. He said I had been called in because my arrest showed up. It was an arrest from 1997 and all charges were dropped. I had even provided all the court documents to the INS to renew my green card in 2006. They took all my fingerprints again and my photo
I asked him how to avoid all this hassle next time, he said there's no way to avoid it, it will happen every single time.
I am thinking to cancel my trip to visit my mother this summer. I won't go abroad till I got citizenship.
Based on your A# or visa information, they can retrieve the fingerprints that were previously associated with you and compare them to the new prints you are giving. It is not necessary to search against an entire database of millions of prints.There is technically absolutely NO WAY that your finger prints are matched against a database in real time. You would need to spend a long time at the counter for that to happen. Even with all the computer juice there is, this is impossible to do.
As an extra check that you're not using somebody else's card. Of course, by failing to do the same for citizens, it's not a very useful check because criminals can steal or borrow a passport.But for what possible reason?
They can tell you to try again if the machine isn't reading your prints clearly. And modern fingerprint matching technology is sophisticated enough to tolerate a certain lack of clarity yet still make a match.Further, the prints need to be very acurate to do an automatic match even with your previous old ones.
It bothers us because:I still cannot understand why people are worried about criminal checks based on fingerprints, when CBP and INS have been doing criminal checks based on NAME all this time. You're no more likely to get flagged, in fact less likely since there will be fewer false positives based on the same name.
The primary purpose is to ensure that your biometrics at the POE match what CBP already has on record.
IT is also my profession, and I have researched some of what goes into fingerprint recognition, and it can be reliable and fast enough for what they're using it for. It is not hard at all to compare one set of stored prints with another set that was just scanned. Swipe the green card, retrieve the prints based on the ID number, compare. Easy as cheeeeese.IT is my profession and there is no way for this to be THAT reliable and fast in an everyday, many thousands of times occuring event multiplied by 10 fingers per person.
Since our first sentence he looked at me very very rudely as I killed somebody! I expected bit more official and polite conversation. He was very arrogant and impolite.
Everything good finally and I got to my passport stamp with "ARC" and my number. What does it mean?
ARC = Alien Registration Card