International Travel 2024

Hello! Does anyone know whether countries send you back to the USA or the country you flew in from if denied entry?

I’d like to go to Vietnam- Da Nang specifically. I have an unmarked passport, and I’m not required to provide the 21-day Notice. But have a 26 y/o conviction involving a minor (did 2 years probation, no jail).

Any recommendations for how to get there? Fly into Europe then Asia? Turkey then Vietnam?

Chances of success going through 3rd country?

Thank you for any advice.

How do I turn my current unmarked passport to obtain a marked one?. Please advise

What is the definition of international travel? If you fly over a country, if you have a layover buttoned leave the plain, if you leave the coast to fish and comeback to the same port is this international travel as in the intentions of preventing unannounced residency or even entrance into another country where you can do possible harm?

Here’s another confusing thing, the U.S. claims that it DOES have a “National Sex Offender Registry.” Except that it really doesn’t, except by reference to the jurisdictional (state) registries: “42 USC § 16919. National Sex Offender Registry (a) Internet. The Attorney General shall maintain a national database at the Federal Bureau of Investigation for each sex offender and any other person required to register in a jurisdiction’s sex offender registry. The database shall be known as the National Sex Offender Registry.”

The word “Internet” is key, here. What they’re calling a “Registry” is actually a database that is accessible on the Web and consists entirely of state and territorial registry data. As such, it is not the “registry” itself since it doesn’t fulfill the role of “registering” or deregistering individuals which is left entirely to the states to determine and which means that only their registries matter.

It’s very sloppy thinking on their part. Even more egregious is when they pretend to exert control over all of the states, not just the SORNA-compliant ones, and demand that they conform to THEIR periods of registration and who gets what tier, etc. Anyone who didn’t know better would think that they have authority over the states in these matters when they absolutely do not. All the feds can do is to dangle some money over states’ heads in the form of grants to accept their terms and conditions of registration and enforcement and, as we have seen, most states have chosen not to take their money or abide by their demands. However, that doesn’t keep the feds from making these claims upon us and the states’ authority. This kind of b.s. is a tremendous source of confusion with people not knowing what the law is and what it is not. Complicating this are the laws which are federal but predicated upon being on a state registry, such as IML. When you’re off the state registry – the only one that matters – then you’re free of the fed’s IML regulations (but not the notifications they can send to other countries about you). But no, to answer recent concerns raised here, they have absolutely no authority to demand that you file 21-Day Travel Notifications if you’re no longer on your state’s registry. Not only is there no way to do so but they have no authority whatsoever to do so; the states have sole authority to determine their registries. What this is is the feds bullying us because they can get away with it. In their minds, we’re just a bunch of pedos whose rights no one cares about. We have to know our rights and hold our ground and stop being intimidated by them.

How about flying from Madrid to Mexico? (Flight from USA – Paris, train from Paris to Madrid).

So we boarded and left a boat only I the US but he boat did sail to international waters, we did not think this international travel but apparently the AG does and we have been fighting it. We have been doing the motions to dismiss and did we travel international was not enough to dismiss and would go to trial and an expo fact was good but derailed because we are told when you sign your probation agreement originally it also says a line about any change in sentencing we agree to is the logic and yet we were offered a misdemeanor obstruction of justice with a full one yr suspended sentence and one full year probation, this is what we may end up with if found guilty of first time offense but we would also have an automatic 10 year add on to your retry time which ends on 3 years. So will the obstruction of justice misdemeanor keep us from being able to get off the registry when we petition? And does anyone know what normal probation is like for this misdemeanor, will they try to have you lose your job and ruin your life? And if anyone has any last minute ideas to push forward with or push for dismissal we have not signed yet. Thanks for reading.

A video on baggage when traveling international as well as TSA and Customs information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUEQnw09iRo

Mexico visit possible…sure if I was coming into the US I would simply come across the open boarder like millions others have done the past 3 years. However, I am a “law biding” American citizen who would be leaving the USA for Mexico so the question is this – Will I be allowed to do so?

Background, registered in Florida (life) for simple possession of CP (downloaded from the internet – no actual “victim”). No jail, adjudication withheld, and 4 years probation and being placed on the Florida SOR. It’s been 23 years on the Florida registry although not living there (and thus registration has not been updated for nearly 17 years.

I was registered in California after moving there but was removed with Janice’s assistance. I am not a felon (I vote and legally own a gun in California). I have a clean passport and I am not required to give any advance travel notice.

I recently traveled to Europe (flew directly into Barcelona from LAX) I entered and enjoyed with no issues (sent to secondary as expected). So back to my original question. Given this info, is there any possibility that I can get into Mexico? I would want to fly from LAX into Mexico City. Thoughts…Experiences?

Do I need to give a 21 day notice if I fly non-stop from a city in the US to Hawaii? I fly over international waters so I would be leaving US territory.

I am asking because I have seen some comments here about closed loop cruises departing and returning to the US and traveling outside of the US boundary into international water but making no port calls but where some LEs say one must give notice because one would be leaving US territory.

I think is all stupid…

Hi all,

My probation officer and judge finally approved my international travel request to go see my brother in France. I am planning on flying via Frankfurt, Germany. When I give my travel information to the police, should I be putting down Germany and France as destination countries or just France? I won’t be staying in Germany, just transferring though there (and probably clearing customs there since it will be my first port of entry in Europe). Should I anticipate any problems getting through German customs? I have the properly marked passport and will have completed the 21 day notice before travelling. Thanks for your help!

A bit of information people may want to tuck away for future use if you hope to get a visa overseas at some point…

Get certified copies of any key documents now. I’m in the process of applying for an immigration visa and am being asked for copies of my treatment completion report from 2000. They want a certified copy, complete with an apostille by the state’s Secretary of State. An apostille requires a notary signature for documents like this, at least in Wisconsin.

The people that signed the original document are long-ago retired, and the clerk at the records office says they don’t have a notary available on staff. Took me quite a while to get them to find a notary – they did in the end and are sending the proper documents, but had I known about this before I could have gathered them on my own schedule.

Also needed a certified copy of my conviction record, complete with apostille.

Can’t say what anyone else would need, but thought it was a good idea to remind people to start thinking about collecting documents sooner rather than later when they’re still somewhat available. I’m just lucky my file hadn’t been sent to the archive office yet or it’s unlikely I would have gotten anything.