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"Paul O" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And, unlike the U.S., they know every hotel I've stayed in, as my passport is taken from me and the information recorded and forwarded to the local police department. I don't fear the procedure, or resent it.
What twaddle - very few European countries take passport information and forward it to the Police Station.
Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, and the Czech Republic are all countries in which hotels have taken my passport and recorded the information.
Care to try again?
I'm fascinated by this whole thread!! Lotta scared angry people out there - likely to be many more until the US changes leadership!!!
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"nobody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Simple business decision. If the government makes money re-issuing
passports,
then it stands to gain by stamping US passports with as much useless
stuff
as
possible so that you run out of space and need to request (and pay !)
for
a
new passport.
:-)
I'm glad you included the smilely.
Consider the treatment the current USA regime gives to visitors to the
USA
who
have overstayed a visa in the past.
What treatment does the USA give visitors who have previously violated immigration laws? The law is clear, as are the penalties for its
violation.
Who goes to another country and believes they can violate the law with impunity?
Since the USA has every reason to fear that other countries might treat USA citizens the same way USA treats
their
citizens,
"Fear"? Have you travelled much internationally? US immigration
procedures
for _visitors_ are not particularly onerous, and considerably easier
than
those of a number of countries I've visited, many of which profess to be democracies.
then that stamp would help you get out of prison since it implicitely proves you have left their country by entering the USA on
a
specific date and thus hadn't overstayed your visa there.
Oh, please . . what nonsense! My passport is scanned whenever I depart
a
Schengen country (which has the most liberal . . . and reciprocal . . . entry requirements with respect to the US) and, I suppose, if I wanted
to
get an exit stamp I could. I am, however, in the computer -- they know
when
I entered, and they know when I left. And, unlike the U.S., they know
every
hotel I've stayed in, as my passport is taken from me and the
information
recorded and forwarded to the local police department. I don't fear the procedure, or resent it.
There's an awful lot about the U.S. that is very wrong just now. Immigration procedures for visitors isn't one of them.
Come to think of it, any visitor to the USA should have their passport
stamped
when they enter another country after leaving the USA. Since the USA
doesn't
have exit controls and thus is incapable of really tracking who has
and
hasn't overstayed their visas, having a stamp from another country
proving
you
had left the USA on such and such a date might be your ticket to
prevent
a
visit to a USA prison.
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