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Is there any way somebody's criminal record may show up when being questioned at the border after getting of the plane to visit the U.S.A
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You have had this question answered many, many times before in one way or another. Read the answers, links etc and you will know
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Having posted on nearly all of your other threads, I assume that you're considering attempting to enter the USA with a visa waiver (via an ESTA) even though you're not entitled to.
Exactly what information passes between the UK authorities and those in the USA is shrouded in secrecy. (Nobody is ever going to reveal exactly what goes on in the name of counter-terrorism). But here are a few facts:
1. Several people have posted here to state that they have managed to enter the USA, under the Visa Waiver Program, by simply 'forgetting about their convictions ; but . . .
2. There have been reports in the press of people who've had very unpleasant experiences, at the hands of US immigration authorities, because they've tried to enter the USA illegally. (You'd be risking being treated in the same way as a terrorist or drug smuggler, complete with internal body examinations, before being locked up until you could be deported straight back to the UK. The airline would be fined several thousand dollars for conveying you without the correct paperwork, which they would then sue you to get back along with your full-price airfare).
3. The US immigration staff have no DIRECT access to UK criminal records but they can make specific requests for information about any individual.
4. Airlines must send the USA basic information about you BEFORE the plane takes off. (Those details include your name, address, passport number, etc, together with the details of the credit/debit card you used to book the flight). The US authorities might ask the UK authorities about whether you qualify for visa-free travel before you even get onto the plane. If the answer is 'No' the airline must refuse you travel ;
5. (Not a proven fact, but I'd be prepared to bet that it's a certainty). Your username appears to suggest that you might be of Asian origin. It's highly likely that the US immigration staff will be asking more far questions about Asians than about non-Asian travellers. (I am NOT saying that such discrimination is right. I am simply suggesting that, with Islamophobia rife in the USA, it's almost certain to happen).
As you have repeatedly been told on here, nobody (other than a few very senior people in MI5 and the CIA) will ever know exactly what information the US authorities have access to in relation to travellers from the UK. But, in my opinion, you'd be mad to 'chance it'.
Chris
Exactly what information passes between the UK authorities and those in the USA is shrouded in secrecy. (Nobody is ever going to reveal exactly what goes on in the name of counter-terrorism). But here are a few facts:
1. Several people have posted here to state that they have managed to enter the USA, under the Visa Waiver Program, by simply 'forgetting about their convictions ; but . . .
2. There have been reports in the press of people who've had very unpleasant experiences, at the hands of US immigration authorities, because they've tried to enter the USA illegally. (You'd be risking being treated in the same way as a terrorist or drug smuggler, complete with internal body examinations, before being locked up until you could be deported straight back to the UK. The airline would be fined several thousand dollars for conveying you without the correct paperwork, which they would then sue you to get back along with your full-price airfare).
3. The US immigration staff have no DIRECT access to UK criminal records but they can make specific requests for information about any individual.
4. Airlines must send the USA basic information about you BEFORE the plane takes off. (Those details include your name, address, passport number, etc, together with the details of the credit/debit card you used to book the flight). The US authorities might ask the UK authorities about whether you qualify for visa-free travel before you even get onto the plane. If the answer is 'No' the airline must refuse you travel ;
5. (Not a proven fact, but I'd be prepared to bet that it's a certainty). Your username appears to suggest that you might be of Asian origin. It's highly likely that the US immigration staff will be asking more far questions about Asians than about non-Asian travellers. (I am NOT saying that such discrimination is right. I am simply suggesting that, with Islamophobia rife in the USA, it's almost certain to happen).
As you have repeatedly been told on here, nobody (other than a few very senior people in MI5 and the CIA) will ever know exactly what information the US authorities have access to in relation to travellers from the UK. But, in my opinion, you'd be mad to 'chance it'.
Chris
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