Re:A U.S. Citizen Was Detained While Trying to Pay for a Gif...
by refurb on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @10:16PM
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For transparency
Yeah, don’t do that. When interacting with the government, you give them what they need and no more.
Sounds like you got a really stupid CBP agent.
Re:A U.S. Citizen Was Detained While Trying to Pay for a Gif...
by Havoc on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:18PM
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>(transparency)Yeah, don’t do that.
Gov needs to decide. They can't penalize me for not being transparent (e.g. encrypting docs and refusing to hand over password at border) and at the same time punishing me for being transparent (like in this example).
Fuckin decide what you want....
Two reasons: Internationally if you do this the official will (normally) pick the most favorable/least paperwork one.
For transparency - I have nothing to hide & wanted to play open cards. If he wants to run both through his systems that's cool - they'll both come back clean.
Me: Good morning sir. Here are my passports. My US ESTA Visa for entry into the USA was issued on the German one.
Him: You can't have two passports.
Me: I have dual citizenship, hence two passports.
Him: No US law doesn't allow you to have two passports.
Me - thinking...oh fk...this guy isn't grasping that US citizenship law doesn't apply to all 7.5 billion people on the world. Do I argue with this idiot? Nope...read enough horror stories on HN about US border arbitrarily detentions. US border agents can clearly do whatever the fuck they want. Went with a fake sorry sir won't happen again.
Oh and this is for a white male in a business suit for a business meeting with a company that's on the HN frontpage on a fuckin German passport speaking perfect English. I dread to think what the experience is like for someone more ahem diverse.