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Re:Avoiding a transit of the United States by seszett on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:17PM (#18912801)
Well, I suppose the simplest solution is that they declare their passports lost or stolen and ask for new ones before getting to the US.

The new passports won't have traces of their entering Iran, and the US will not get their hands on the old passports and never know they were in Iran.

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Re:Avoiding a transit of the United States by markonen on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:28PM (#18912919)
One of the ESTA questions is

> Have you traveled to, or been present in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen on or after March 1, 2011?

I wouldn’t recommend answering this or any other CBP question untruthfully.

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Re:Avoiding a transit of the United States by jimis on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:10PM (#18913915)
Don't you have the right to remain silent and not answer?
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Re:Avoiding a transit of the United States by gambiting on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:34PM (#18914149)
Sure, if you are American. If you're not, then you will be simply denied entry if you refuse to answer.
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Re:Avoiding a transit of the United States by travelbuffoon on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:45PM (#18914255)
It's hard to be silent towards an online checkbox.
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Re:Avoiding a transit of the United States by irrational on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:03PM (#18914465)
Sure, and they have the right to put you on a plane to somewhere else.
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Re:Avoiding a transit of the United States by hiccuphippo on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:23PM (#18912866)
Cuban agents used to put the stamp in a separate paper instead of the passport so you don't have trouble if you plan to go to the US later. Not sure if that's needed anymore.
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Re:Avoiding a transit of the United States by paulie_a on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:34PM (#18913589)
Before legal travel to Cuba from the US you just needed to not use an ATM which apparently would work. They had no problems making sure you would spend money there and accommodated Americans to not get in trouble.
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Re:Avoiding a transit of the United States by aqme28 on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:07PM (#18913341)
Israel does the same thing.
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Re:Avoiding a transit of the United States by reaperducer on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:48PM (#18913155)
Ah. That explains a lot. I've gotten these stamps-on-paper before, and never knew why.
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Re:Avoiding a transit of the United States by gambiting on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:21PM (#18912847)
You can't lie if an official document asks if you've ever been to Iran though. So this could be an issue if ever applying for a green card/citizenship in US.
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Re:Avoiding a transit of the United States by sk5t on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:29PM (#18912933)
"Gosh, I must have slept through the whole thing!"
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Re:Avoiding a transit of the United States by icebraining on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:38PM (#18914190)
That didn't really matter. The statements are considered false even if you didn't know them to be false.
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Re:Avoiding a transit of the United States by aaaaaaaaaab on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:28PM (#18912922)
>You can't lie

Demonstrably false.

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