Travel Question
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Colombian PR
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They inspect your baggage. You can't take liquid things and some other items that you are not suppose to travel with and they also have a limit weight on your loggage.
What exactly do you mean by inspect? The name, the fingerprints, the loggage?
What exactly do you mean by inspect? The name, the fingerprints, the loggage?
wantmygcnow
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No but they do know who left. The reason I say this because once entering with Rentry Permit, the officer did know that I left 2 weeks ago. He corrected me when I said that I was out for 3 weeks.
They inspect your baggage. You can't take liquid things and some other items that you are not suppose to travel with and they also have a limit weight on your loggage.
What exactly do you mean by inspect? The name, the fingerprints, the loggage?
I meant will we see an immigration officer or do we just check in with the airline?
Only airline agents and security.No immigration agents.Samething when you exit from UK.
cafeconleche
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Are you going to leave the country for the first time, COMCAST? I thought you work in the UK...
wantmygcnow
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Cafeconleche, please stop opening up old threads. The threads you respond to are old are 6-7 months or even 1 year old and they serve no purpose since most of the responses are old.
If you want, you can open up a new thread with your query.
look at the date of the post please.
John Smith 1
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dear WANT:
did they know about people who were leaving before sep 11, i understand it used to be different system,
the reason iam asking you is during the citizenship interview will the officer ask about trips before you got green card
wantmygcnow
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Before GC, you were an asylee. Now you are a PR so requirements for PR is the travel after the date on your GC "Resident since".
cafeconleche
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Sorry guys...
An officer can (and often does) go beyond the resident since date.
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While this is technically correct, as Thanful stated, IOs can go beyond your resident since date and ask for all of your trips outside the USA. However, the continous residence component does not apply to those years beyond the PR status. But, on the flip side, IOs do look for whether or not you violated your prior status by the travels or anything else. Because if you were not entitled to the GC in the first place, then you are automatically ineligible to naturalize. Make sense?
This is not meant to scare any one, just to let you know that in the interview your entire A-file is sitting there in front of the IO. And on a personal note, even though the N-400 asks just to list employment and home addresses from the last 5 years (I had put like 6 or 7 years), I was asked to provide all my addresses and employment information since coming to the USA. Because the IO was asking me to go back 10 years, she was considerate about exact dates, but wanted the names and city/state plus general dates (month/year) regardless. And this was not done in an unpleasant manner - so don't think my interview was out of the ordinary. She just wanted a complete picture of my stay in the USA. And I am sure she used that information to match what was in my original I-485 application because I could see her going back and forth between what she was writing down as I told her and looking at my I-485 in the file. So there is a reason or tactic why they ask certain questions.
They have to be satisfied that you obtained your green card and whatever status you had before the green card legitimately. They are giving you citizenship, think about it. This is the last chance they can check you out in great depth.
John Smith 1
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will the immigration officer know about your trips before sep 11,
i understand before the creation of the homeland security dep , airlines
did not share information with the immgration dep, people could leave
and stay in their countries for years without the knowledge of the immigration dep, and when they come back again to usa they claim they were
away only for few weeks
When you answer questions on the form or in person in front of an immigration officer, I encourage everybody to be completely candid. Even if you are not caught now a dishonest answer can come back years later to haunt you and ruin everything you have built up.
This is not related to immigration but is timely and offers a good lesson in honesty. It shows that lying to the federal government is a very serious matter. The American legal system is very harsh with people who lie to officials.
SAN FRANCISCO - The pilot of the container ship that spilled 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay was charged Tuesday with two felony counts of lying to Coast Guard officials about his prescription drug use.
Capt. John Cota, 60, previously was charged with two misdemeanor environmental crimes for his role in the Nov. 7 accident that fouled the bay, killed or injured thousands of birds and forced the closure of Bay Area beaches.
The new, more serious charges accuse Cota of lying on annual medical reports in 2006 and 2007 that are required by the U.S. Coast Guard.
The indictment alleges that Cota "knew that the information he provided was neither complete nor true, including the information ... regarding current medications, the dosage, possible side effects and medical conditions for which the medications were taken," according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
The indictment, which includes the two previous charges, didn't provide details about the drugs Cota allegedly lied about or neglected to include on the two annual medical reports.
The shipping fuel leaked into the ecologically sensitive bay after the Cosco Busan freighter sideswiped a support tower of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in heavy morning fog.
Federal investigators told the National Transportation Safety Board last week that Cota had a drunken driving conviction and a history of alcohol abuse and took numerous prescription drugs that could have impaired his judgment.
The NTSB was told that Cota was prescribed many pills, including lorazepam, an anti-anxiety drug, imitrex for migraines, provigil to increase wakefulness, and darvon compound 65 for pain.
"These new felony allegations, aside from not being provable, bear no relevance whatsoever to the causes or consequences of the Cosco Busan oil spill," said the pilot's lawyer, Jeff Bornstein.
Bornstein said Cota was not under the influence while at the helm of the Cosco Busan and he passed drug and alcohol tests administered two hours after the crash.
Bornstein complained that federal investigators have focused their criminal probe solely on Cota when the ship's Chinese crew and U.S. Coast Guard shared responsibility.
Six Chinese crew members have been detained in the Bay Area since the spill so they can testify against Cota.
While technically under arrest as "material witnesses," they have been staying at a San Francisco apartment and drawing their salaries and a stipend.
The crew's lawyer have asked a judge to let them testify before trial so they can return home as soon as possible. Cota's trial is expected to start in September at the earliest.
The crew's lawyers propose taping their testimony, which would include cross-examination by Cota's lawyers, and showing it to a jury. Cota's attorney would prefer to have the crew testify live in front of a jury.
"It's much better to have people testify in the courtroom so a jury can not only hear, but see the witnesses," Bornstein said.
A judge is expected to decide the issue soon. Cota is due back in court on May 5.
This is not related to immigration but is timely and offers a good lesson in honesty. It shows that lying to the federal government is a very serious matter. The American legal system is very harsh with people who lie to officials.
SAN FRANCISCO - The pilot of the container ship that spilled 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay was charged Tuesday with two felony counts of lying to Coast Guard officials about his prescription drug use.
Capt. John Cota, 60, previously was charged with two misdemeanor environmental crimes for his role in the Nov. 7 accident that fouled the bay, killed or injured thousands of birds and forced the closure of Bay Area beaches.
The new, more serious charges accuse Cota of lying on annual medical reports in 2006 and 2007 that are required by the U.S. Coast Guard.
The indictment alleges that Cota "knew that the information he provided was neither complete nor true, including the information ... regarding current medications, the dosage, possible side effects and medical conditions for which the medications were taken," according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
The indictment, which includes the two previous charges, didn't provide details about the drugs Cota allegedly lied about or neglected to include on the two annual medical reports.
The shipping fuel leaked into the ecologically sensitive bay after the Cosco Busan freighter sideswiped a support tower of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in heavy morning fog.
Federal investigators told the National Transportation Safety Board last week that Cota had a drunken driving conviction and a history of alcohol abuse and took numerous prescription drugs that could have impaired his judgment.
The NTSB was told that Cota was prescribed many pills, including lorazepam, an anti-anxiety drug, imitrex for migraines, provigil to increase wakefulness, and darvon compound 65 for pain.
"These new felony allegations, aside from not being provable, bear no relevance whatsoever to the causes or consequences of the Cosco Busan oil spill," said the pilot's lawyer, Jeff Bornstein.
Bornstein said Cota was not under the influence while at the helm of the Cosco Busan and he passed drug and alcohol tests administered two hours after the crash.
Bornstein complained that federal investigators have focused their criminal probe solely on Cota when the ship's Chinese crew and U.S. Coast Guard shared responsibility.
Six Chinese crew members have been detained in the Bay Area since the spill so they can testify against Cota.
While technically under arrest as "material witnesses," they have been staying at a San Francisco apartment and drawing their salaries and a stipend.
The crew's lawyer have asked a judge to let them testify before trial so they can return home as soon as possible. Cota's trial is expected to start in September at the earliest.
The crew's lawyers propose taping their testimony, which would include cross-examination by Cota's lawyers, and showing it to a jury. Cota's attorney would prefer to have the crew testify live in front of a jury.
"It's much better to have people testify in the courtroom so a jury can not only hear, but see the witnesses," Bornstein said.
A judge is expected to decide the issue soon. Cota is due back in court on May 5.
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Exactly! Very well put Thankful. I agree with you in regards to be candid and up front. If you have nothing to hide then all will be well. Yes - citizenship cannot be revoked without intervention from the Courts so it is very serious thing USCIS is granting you. Unlike the GC which can be revoked directly by USCIS.
One more thing I would like to add to what you said is not just getting your GC legitimately but that you maintained it legitimately as well.
Yes - according to the CBP web site, DHS has records of all entries and exits for air travelers (particularly GC holders and citizens) since mind 1980s.