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USA travel after arrest...
spindle76
Hi, my friend and i are going to New york in June, however he has just been arrested and charged with common assault. We've both already have had our ESTA approved so where does he stand?.........
Thanks...
Hi, my friend and i are going to New york in June, however he has just been arrested and charged with common assault. We've both already have had our ESTA approved so where does he stand?.........
Thanks...
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^^ To qualify that a bit, the US immigration authorities have no access to the UK Police National Computer. The only way that they could be aware of this is if the police consider him a threat to global security, such as being a known terrorist or drug smuggler etc.
That said, you are supposed to inform US immigration of any changes of circumstance after our EST was issued...
That said, you are supposed to inform US immigration of any changes of circumstance after our EST was issued...
Again, not quite true, Boxy. The US immigration rules say that you are to inform them of any conviction or even any arrest and, if you have either of these, then you must apply for a full visa. This can take many months. However, if your conviction isn't classed by the US as "moral turpitude", there is quite a good chance that you will be granted a visa, eventually. If it is, though, you have next to no chance of ever getting into the US legally...
That pretty much appears to be the case sherrardk. Unlike us the US seems to have decided that they have enough home-grown talent to deal with without importing more.
A good friend of mine spent over a hundred pounds on the US embassy premium rate phone line, stayed overnight in London and went for an interview with officials because of a minor conviction over 30 years ago. A self made man with no further record since then he's still waiting to hear if he can travel months later.
The huddled masses need no longer apply it seems.
A good friend of mine spent over a hundred pounds on the US embassy premium rate phone line, stayed overnight in London and went for an interview with officials because of a minor conviction over 30 years ago. A self made man with no further record since then he's still waiting to hear if he can travel months later.
The huddled masses need no longer apply it seems.
It's almost worth the risk. If you tick the "I'm a good boy really" box on the visa waiver application form and, by some miracle, you get tumbled at US immigration, the worst they can do (so far as I understand it) is lock you up and deport you on the next available flight... Do a Google search for moral turpitude - you'll be amazed as to which crimes are considered to be inside and outside it...
In answer to the original Op would be that you will get away with it. The US authorities won`t have access to your UK criminal record. They won`t know anything about it. Personally, if it was me though, I would come clean. I wouldn`t want to be trying to get into the US while worrying that they know something I don`t. If you don`t get in, you will not be deported (as MarkRae says). You will be "Inadmissable" (known as an Inad) and not a Deportee.
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