Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US for 870 days

Re:Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US fo... by bigtones on Thursday September 03, 2020 @07:42PM (#24370124)

One of the most common reason to be denied an ESTA of a Visa to the United States is because of a criminal conviction or a criminal charge in your home country. I'm not saying this is the case here, but that is one of the most common reasons.

Then again, it might be just because he's a "hacker".

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Re:Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US fo... by viraptor on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:03PM (#24370280)

> Then again, it might be just because he's a "hacker".

Given the number of non-US people successfully traveling to BlackHat and other explicitly "hacking" conferences... This is not the most likely explanation.

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Re:Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US fo... by Havoc on Thursday September 03, 2020 @07:50PM (#24370194)

Given that his ESTA application previously succeeded a criminal charge seems unlikely here.

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Re:Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US fo... by tmn007 on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:20PM (#24370414)

Most countries don't give the USA carte blanche access to their citizens criminal history unless it is in their interests to declare (I base this on observations of people who have past criminal convictions yet still get ESTA approvals and travel to the USA). However, the USA may have become aware of something that they previously were not aware of.

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Re:Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US fo... by jrochkind1 on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:32PM (#24370507)

Would that normally result in a fairly quick rejection though, instead of a couple years with no response?

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