Re the purpose of visit, have the rules of what is defined as work changed recently? I traveled a couple of years ago to LA to work on-site with my employer for a couple of weeks - I told the customs official this, and they let me through without issue. I'm from the UK so just got ESTA.
International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees
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Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees
#62I recently visited the US and I thought the process was going to be hell after reading a lot of these threads on HN. Turns out it was pretty chill, got some questions before boarding and was selected for extra security check. Then upon landing I got like 3 questions from the officer, how long I would stay, where my friends were and what the purpose of my trip was. Sure they didn't seem very friendly but it wasn't a b…
Luck and skin melanin content have an interesting inverse relationship when it comes to these things...
Not really. All those Poles/Romanians/Bulgarians/other eastern Europeans do not have matching experience.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
We had serious plans to go on holiday to the US this year. I have been in the US at least a dozen of times, and absolutely love the desert states, Oregon, and Washington. Entering the US was already a large hassle, but with Trump's travel bans, rumors of phone, laptop, and social media checks, we have decided to postpone our travel plans until the political/security climate improves. Semi-related: we were in the mark…
The majority of US citizens did not vote for Trump. Just thought I'd point out that most people DO NOT want this president.
Around half did want him? That's a significant of people to me, no matter if they have the majority or not.
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#64I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I'm Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost…
GF traveled to the US for work, a conference in Houston. Everyone that looked Arab of Muslim was 'randomly' picked out of line. Some of the employees had to undress and squat in front of the TSA and one had to undergo cavity searches. These were regular European citizens. Let's just say conferences will be help in Europe or Canada in the future...
Are you serious? Strip and cavity searches? This needs to be on the media.
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#65So what happens when they ask for my Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat logins and I do not have accounts with these companies? If a simple "I don't have social media accounts" is acceptable then I'm not sure why they even ask for passwords. Proving a negative is very hard.
They keep it in record and in the future if they ever found out you lied, you can be jailed for 10 years.
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#66So what happens when they ask for my Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat logins and I do not have accounts with these companies? If a simple "I don't have social media accounts" is acceptable then I'm not sure why they even ask for passwords. Proving a negative is very hard.
Lying to them is a serious criminal offense carrying (IIRC) up to 5 years in prison. Even a harmless fib counts.
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#67> "Don't Travel With Work Data"
Why would I value my personal data any less than my work data?
So what this rally means is: "Don't Travel With Any Data".
And knowing that they only need to plug an infected USB device into your PC/phone/tablet to infect the latter irrevocably, the situation can now be summed up as:
"Don't Travel With Any Data Or Any Hardware".
Now what does that say about the sate of a country?
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#68Re the purpose of visit, have the rules of what is defined as work changed recently? I traveled a couple of years ago to LA to work on-site with my employer for a couple of weeks - I told the customs official this, and they let me through without issue. I'm from the UK so just got ESTA.
When they ask if it's work or vacations I always say "meetings". Worked for me so far...
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#69Would it be accepted to give a wipe code rather than a password to customs?
They might consider it a lie if you represented it as a password, and arrest you for it.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
GF traveled to the US for work, a conference in Houston. Everyone that looked Arab of Muslim was 'randomly' picked out of line. Some of the employees had to undress and squat in front of the TSA and one had to undergo cavity searches. These were regular European citizens. Let's just say conferences will be help in Europe or Canada in the future...
Are you serious? Strip and cavity searches? This needs to be on the media.
What would it change?