dischord.org » Honesty gets you nowhere
I should be some way over the Atlantic as I type this, but instead I’m sat here back in sunny Manchester Atherton due to the fact that I’m apparently inelligible to fly to the US under their visa waiver program.
At the check-in gate at Manchester Airport the security bloke leafed through my passport and noticed a stamp from the US Embassy in London, dating back from circa 2002. This was the result of an application I filled out for a six-month visa that was denied owing to a lack of “strong social and economic ties to the traveler’s place of permanent residence”. I didn’t think much of this at the time, and indeed flew to the US for three months not long after. I’ve even been twice since then - another 3 month stint in San Diego and a two-week stay near Washington D.C with Sun.
Anyway, AA wouldn’t let my board my flight as they’re liable to be fined if I’m ‘found out’ by INS at the other end, so that was that. They’ve re-checked me onto a flight on Tuesday, so now I need to call the US Embassy in London tomorrow and hope that I can sort this over the phone.
:’(
nighty
21 May 06 at 12:31 pm
That fucking sucks :|
Wes
21 May 06 at 1:02 pm
American Airlines Bad, Atherton Good !
Aggroman
22 May 06 at 8:33 am
that sucks! good luck on getting it all sorted though dude! Remember, you packed your bags yourself!
muad
22 May 06 at 10:10 am
man that is a proper wounder!!!!
james
22 May 06 at 3:14 pm
Thats typical INS tho… they have tightened up a lot since 2001. Its probably just pure luck that you got thru before (seeing that in the UK End you are a UK Citizen so they give your a blind eye generally) and in the US end they probably dont know how to read a UK passport because they employ chimps!.
I have to travel all the way to Boston in the next few weeks just to get my Green Card renewed (For a 10 years). Its not like Boston is just next door either. It isnt… why the fuck they just cant post it to me is beyond me. Believe me if you ever want to move here permanently, theres a whole mess of shit and money you have to pay. I have been there and its only JUST coming to an end now after being here for like 4 years…
Still sucks tho. He was probably just having a bad day and decided to take it out on you tho.. :(
Shad
22 May 06 at 11:59 pm
What a set of cocks at AA :(
Chris
23 May 06 at 1:28 pm
I can’t fucking believe it. It’s really just luck, like I shouldn’t have been able to stay in the US for four months, jumping in between canada and the states but no-one ever questioned it, just kept giving me visas. Shads right, they’re fucking chimps and Chris is right, they’re a set of fucking cocks.
Paul
26 May 06 at 12:02 am