Travelling with GC - Arrival & Departure

When I travelled while on H1 and AP, this is what happened,

Departure - The airline staff asked me for passport and saw that I have valid US visa or AP. They did not scan the passport or note down its number. Then they issue me a boarding pass.

At the time of boarding, occassionally they ask me for passport but they just look at it and return.

On one of my trips they did not take I-94. I was not knowing about the procedure. When I arrived from the trip, I gave to POE officer. I guess not every international passenger uses I-94 and therefore it is easy to miss by airline staff.

Arrival - I was asked passport and AP papers. The officer asks me few questions but I have no way to now what he sees in computer as it is not at my eye level. But one thing is sure, he does not scan my passport. I do not have any bar code on my pasport.
 
JoeF said:
I doubt that, because your posts show a complete lack of knowledge about handling of data.
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Hmmm. If you are in computer industry, you will see that reality is lot different from your data strcutures/algorithms/RDMS books. I did not doubt about the technology. I doubted about implementation by CIS (if they did at all) and the data accuracy. Technolgy itself cannot make data accurate, but the process that uses that technology.


JoeF said:
You tried to push your exit controls idea, and all I did was to show you that there already is the main reason for exit controls, i.e., data collection. The only other reason for exit controls is to prevent people from leaving, like in a police state.
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Oooopppssss. Don't twist my word with your vivid imagination. I haven't used the word "control" that will "prevent" people from leaving. What I talked about is just a "recording" who are leaving. I think you have hard time to understand that data-collection without a data reference presented by the person involved is more prone to error and less reliable for cross-checking. That's the very reason they ask criminal/arrest related history in N-400/I-485 applications, even though they can "collect" all these info without asking that kind of questions.
 
JoeF said:
You haven't. But that would be the result of exit controls.
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That depends and you can assume with your own pre-occupied idea that already resides in your head (for example, door-nazi). But I am not talking about that kind of system (FYI).

JoeF said:
The way ensure accuracy is not to create another bureaucracy that collects more data, and subsequently mishandles it. The correct way is to provide a way for the person the data is about to check the data and correct inaccuracies.
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There is already bureaucracy in existing system. Only difference is that currently data is collected by airlines and used by BCBP. But in case of exit-system data is collected by BCBP and used by BCBP.
 
JoeF said:
And that justifies to bring in more bureaucracy???
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Who is talking about creating more bureaucracy???? :confused: Shifting some tasks from airlines employees to some BCBP employee is not creating more bureaucracy. Yes, BCBP has to recruit more employee do that job. But that's not "more bureaucracy". Probably you don't know the the meaning of bureaucracy.
 
JoeF said:
Me thinks you like big government ;)
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Nope. I don't like big govt. Well...I take it back. I really don't care about the size of govt as long as it spends my tax dollar effectively and properly, performs well and let me enjoy my freedom as much I want. And, I don't think someone else should perform jobs on behalf of a govt - especially when it comes to military, security, immigration, welfare etc. Any business has its goal which is totally different from what govt wants for the country. That's why I don't like airlines performing a job for DHS/BCBP because their priority and goal is just throwing as many people possible inside their planes and make more profit. Maintaining immigration/security is not their high priority. So any "side task" is as it means - side task. If job X does not exists that's separate issue - and better. But if job X exists and required, I prefer it to be done by DHS/BCBP, not airlines.

JoeF said:
I, on the other hand, want the government out of my life as much as possible.
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Don't be too paranoid. There is countries in the world where govts do not exist. And people are not doing all that good there - in term of freedom, in term of economy, in term of development. Yes, some balance required - to keep govt out of our daily life. But "as much as possible"? No way.
 
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From JoeF's posts and his language, I am close to say that he had spent considerable time in UK.
 
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