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PK do you know if there are doing this to deregister sex offender?
Here is a link to a list of countries that has all the relevant information…I believe they update it every so often but im not quite sure…so take a look if u are looking to travel..and maybe the sight here should put up a chart of their own
http://restoringintegritytovirginiaregistry.blogspot.com/2016/06/what-countries-are-turning-away.html?m=1
This most current Survey for International Travel after IML-
It is worth posting the @TS’s research regarding how they are revoking Passports as we know it today:
Three ways they are revoking passports:
1) after return home through a Certified Letter,
2) on the way traveling out of the country, or
3) on return to country, and going through CBP secondary inspection
Regarding the Passport Endorsement on the last page.
I think the issue was discussed before, but I wanted to re-hash it to find out more thoughts about it.
Does everyone think that the little statement on the last page of the Passport is that noticeable and would it be a real deterrence from entering into a Country?
I’m not so sure, especially a Latin American Country who probably wouldn’t have any experience to look for this statement in the first place.
Seriously? If I have to trek through the jungle of Central and South America, I WILL get to where I want to be. I will remain silent about the actual country that I’m planning on retiring to. But come hell or high water, some POS statement on page 27 of the Passport is NOT going to stop me. I WILL NOT be a prisoner of the United States. This is utter BS for some POS misdemeanor.
Has anyone tried to changed there name?
@ PK: I am thinking the same thing – I am hoping that the lawsuit will produce an injunction so DOS will be forced to stop revoking Registrants’ passports.
Has the lawsuit against the IML been dismissed or is it still going on and still in stand?
If we have the new passports with the endorsement will we be able to go to the countries that dont have a ban on RSO’s? JUst wondering????
If the lawsuit is successful in getting an injunction, I think the best answer to getting a brand new passport issued to you without the unique identifier is: Why not? It’s worth a shot. 👍🤞
Just a follow-up to my travel posts this month- returned from Netherlands early May, received my revocation of passport 5-21 ish approx 2 weeks later.
I will wait a few months to reapply.
Update:
My German passport will be issued as soon as my reduction is granted. Probably 3 months or so. My immigration attorney feels that submitting paperwork with felony creates unneeded scrutiny. Then I am gone. As a German citizen, she says I don’t have an obligation to inform ICE of my travels. I have to let California know of my residency change and that’s all. I can fly directly to Thailand and have family meet me @ airport. I will send a ” hello all” when free.
Im curious about one thing.
Has anyone who has returned from international travel,,, NOT received a revocation letter from the State Dept?
Passport Revocation- what does it mean really?
When some RSO receives his Passport Revocation Letter in the mail from the State Department, what is the significance?
My understanding is that the Revocation Letter indicates that the passport has been revoked.
Does this mean, that if one were to try to use this passport in any of the 195 Countries in the entire world, that their system is automatically connected to the United States Passport System, which indicates that the passport is now revoked?
Or do you think the passport could still be used to get into that country (barring any notification from CBP) ?
Most certainly, upon any return to the United States they would grab that passport from your hand and it would never be seen again.
@Major Henderson, “Absolutely no one I spoke to even knew about the revocation, much less how to reapply.”
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Sorry about this reply being out of line, but I am replying to the Major’s post above with the statement that I quoted.
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All you should have to do is apply for a new passport. You’re already in the system and they know why they revoked your passport, so the State Department should send you a marked one without you needing to do or say anything special.
If you aren’t planning international travel in the near future, you might consider holding off before applying for a new passport. If Janice or others win on an IML challenge, you may never have to suffer the ignominy of being issued and having to present to someone a scarlet letter passport.
Phone & Electronic Device Searches:
If you are interested in the topic of Border Control Officers conducting searches on cell phones and electronic devices, you may wish to follow the two legal challenges of Kolsuz and of Alasaad. Please note that Courts are beginning to rule that some searches require “Individualized Suspicion”.
“Courts Continue to Grapple with Border Searches of Electronic Devices: Fourth Circuit Rules Forensic Searches Require Individualized Suspicion” https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=63a09278-4f6f-42bf-a554-7779ea37387b
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/victory-alasaad-our-digital-privacy-border
(Many of you may recall that it was not long ago that Janice won a case against California Department of Probation. The Court ruled that Probations could only use “blanket restrictions” against all sex offense probationers, they could only use “individualized restrictions”.)
@David, I don’t think that is always true. In fact, I think it is usually not the case. I believe that universal or nationwide injunctions are uncommon, although they do seem to be on the increase in recent years. It is more common for an injunction against the government to apply only to the parties in the case.
A win for petitioners in one court will set the ball rolling for wins in other federal districts, and that will escalate to appeals in one or more Courts of Appeals around the country. If different Courts of Appeals reach different conclusions on a matter of law, it sets the stage for a possible SCOTUS showdown. At least, a split among Circuits increases the odds that SCOTUS will grant cert to a case to settle the question for all.
http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/02/academic-highlight-debate-nationwide-injunctions/
https://harvardlawreview.org/2017/12/nationwide-injunctions-nationwide-harm/
https://www.lawfareblog.com/nationwide-injunctions-and-lower-federal-courts
Have we heard of anyone has traveled on the new passport? I’m wondering if anything has changed as far as being more heavily scrutinized or plain refused entry.
I’ve had good luck going to Hong Kong but am afraid the new passport may create issues. I was also thinking of going to Malaysia next visit as Hong Kong can get pretty expensive.
Where does the current challenge to IML stand?
Countdown to Europe…
We leave next Wednesday (June 6th) out of ATL. Fly into PARIS on the 7th. Travel France, Germany (my son lives near Brauneberg) and then into Switzerland before departing from ZURICH on the 18th. We return into ATL.
I filed my 21 day notice well in advance.
I am nervous and trying not to show it so that my fiance does not get nervous…so maybe you can help.
1. What if any concerns should I have when checking in and flying out of ATL?
2. What if any concerns should I have when arriving in PARIS?
3. What if any concerns should I have while in PARIS?
4. What if any concerns should I have taking train from PARIS to TRIER, GERMANY?
5. What if any concerns should I have while in GERMANY?
6. What if any concerns should I have while crossing border into Switzerland (by auto w/ son)?
7. What if any concerns should I have while in SWITZERLAND?
8. What if any concerns should I have when checking in and flying out of ZURICH?
9. What if any concerns should I have when arriving ATL?
10. What if any concerns should I have with “secondary”?
11. Will “secondary” ONLY be when we come back into USA in ATL?
12. What would you do to best prepare for “secondary”? (i.e. log out of iCloud? log out of OneDrive? delete un-needed apps? Etc?)
13. Is my travel companion subject to “secondary”? (We are as traveling companions on DELTA and Moblie Passport)
I know that is ALOT…but please HELP EASE MY NERVES…
THANK YOU ALL IN ADVANCE. 🙂
AD
@AD FROM Mn
Have fun on your trip.
1.) My only fear flying out was that my passport was revoked without my knowing. Fear was gone as I boarded.
Traveling in Europe was no issues for me. Trains crossing borders check passports most of the time. (Amsterdam-Antwerp did not my last trip.) Car crossing borders may not have passport controls – they did not Belgium/France/Netherlands.
12.) Bring along 2 copies of your 21 day notice. (keep 1 for yourself) the 2nd can be given to secondary in Atl. giving them one can speed up time spent there. Also if an itinerary is not part of your notice – have it available.
13.) Your passport will be run separately unless traveling as a family. You will be in a separate line with the X after the initial passport machine screening. your fellow travelers shouldn’t be impacted.
My overall advice is be patient, and leave xtra time for US customs.
Need advice: has anyone NOT sent back their passport after getting the State dept letter? I’ve been busy since getting the letter. Have not returned it and wonder whether waiting till after the ACSOL conference or the June 25 court date has any point at all.
EUROPE – another ? Will customs in Paris, Germany, or Switzerland do a “secondary” and/or search of electronics or is this done upon re-entry into USA?
In yesterday’s 7-2 US Supreme Court ruling against the baker in Colorado who refused to make a cake for a gay wedding, it seemed to me that they were agreeing that the baker could not be compelled to accept gay marriage, and make a statement (the message on the cake) supporting it. Isn’t this very much like not having to display the “identifier” on our passports? The Supreme Court has long recognized a First Amendment right not to be forced to “speak.” In 1977, for instance, the court ruled that New Hampshire could not require people to display license plates bearing the state’s motto, “Live Free or Die.” Wooley v. Maynard
I said that wrong: the decision was “for” the baker, not against. Said he did not have to make the cake. That it was compelling him to say something that was against his belief. Maybe ruling was so narrow that it does not apply to our case.