Deported

sprayer | 12:06 Sat 20th Dec 2008 | Travel

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Way back in the early 1970s I was deported from Holland after working on an international offshore pirate radio station for breaking the Dutch marine broadcasting offences laws, I would now like to go back to the Nederlands as a tourist but have been told that I may not be allowed to enter the country, so my question is would it matter after all these years and only being a trivial offence anyway, also how long would they hold this information on record, is there any way of checking as I would hate to get there only to be refused entry..

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jno

I don't actually know but I would have thought it hugely unlikely that they would remember you. These days all that happens when you enter an EU country is they take a 2-second look at your passport to see your picture matches your face (which of course it never does), hand it back and wave you through. They may have a watchlist of known drug kingpins, heads of Smersh etc they are looking out for; but you won't be on it.

Buenchico

Any EU citizen has the right to travel to, and to live in, any EU member state. With the exception of powers relating to, for example, placing temporary bans on football hooligans, no state can bar entry to (or deport) any EU citizen.

So you've no need to worry. Even if you were still banned from the Netherlands (which you're not), passport checks are so cursory that you'd never be identified. (If you entered via a land border, there wouldn't be any passport checks at all, since the Netherlands and its neighbours are full signatories to the Schengen agreement).

Chris

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A big thanks to you both, that has put my mind at ease

dot.hawkes

ooooo was It Radio Caroline??????????????