This is lovely except for annoying US TSA agent who harass you everytime they swipe your passport and it shows thay you have been to blacklist countries like Pakistan, Iran, DPRK, Cuba, etc. I live and work in the US with a Danish passport, and when my passport had a stamp from Cuba, Venezuela (among others, also went to El Savador, Columbia, Costa Rica and Honduras) I keep getting sent to the isolation/interrogation room when I enter the US.
Have literally missed domestic connecting flights because of this. They keep asking what I did in Cuba, Venezuela, Columbia and it had gotten so bad that I carry my hiking pictures on my travel document because there is 50/50 shot everytime I reenter the US that I got sent to the TSA interrogation room.
I've finally gotten so sick of it that I pretend to lose my passport and requested a new passport from the Danish embassy. The I-94 system in the US keep track of all the countries you enter/depart based on your passport number. If you burn/lost your passport then your travel history is refreshed.
I even understand if they want to take me to interrogation room if I legitimately just flew from these countries. My situation was that I went to vacation in Central America ONCE. I've flown back and forth between US and Denmark like 10x since, you would think if I'm a Sandinista agent I would have done the crime by now.
Everytime, same moronic robotic list of questions. What were you doing in Cuba/Venezuela in 2009 (vacation, hiking, drinking), did you had assistance or meet with govt official (no), have you been arrested in the US for drug related charges (you can look up my records yourself, you goddamn moron, the answer is always no)
The most annoying thing is not even the questions themselves, but they take you to this wait room, take your phone so you cannot listen to music or anything, and usually people have to wait 30-60 minutes. If you don't have non-electronic media then you are shit out of luck, you have to stare at a wall for the wait period while listening to TSA agent questioning and harassing poor passengers in front of the queue. Usually I was only interviewed for like 10 minutes, but it is just a giant waste of time and taxpayer money for everyone involved, why don't these people actually stop a terror attack for once.
This is lovely except for annoying US TSA agent who harass you everytime they swipe your passport and it shows thay you have been to blacklist countries like Pakistan, Iran, DPRK, Cuba, etc. I live and work in the US with a Danish passport, and when my passport had a stamp from Cuba, Venezuela (among others, also went to El Savador, Columbia, Costa Rica and Honduras) I keep getting sent to the isolation/interrogation room when I enter the US.
Have literally missed domestic connecting flights because of this. They keep asking what I did in Cuba, Venezuela, Columbia and it had gotten so bad that I carry my hiking pictures on my travel document because there is 50/50 shot everytime I reenter the US that I got sent to the TSA interrogation room.
I've finally gotten so sick of it that I pretend to lose my passport and requested a new passport from the Danish embassy. The I-94 system in the US keep track of all the countries you enter/depart based on your passport number. If you burn/lost your passport then your travel history is refreshed.
Bugerland is so pathetic and petty. What did they think you were doing? Smuggling weapons? The bastards just wanted to feel important.
I even understand if they want to take me to interrogation room if I legitimately just flew from these countries. My situation was that I went to vacation in Central America ONCE. I've flown back and forth between US and Denmark like 10x since, you would think if I'm a Sandinista agent I would have done the crime by now.
Everytime, same moronic robotic list of questions. What were you doing in Cuba/Venezuela in 2009 (vacation, hiking, drinking), did you had assistance or meet with govt official (no), have you been arrested in the US for drug related charges (you can look up my records yourself, you goddamn moron, the answer is always no)
The most annoying thing is not even the questions themselves, but they take you to this wait room, take your phone so you cannot listen to music or anything, and usually people have to wait 30-60 minutes. If you don't have non-electronic media then you are shit out of luck, you have to stare at a wall for the wait period while listening to TSA agent questioning and harassing poor passengers in front of the queue. Usually I was only interviewed for like 10 minutes, but it is just a giant waste of time and taxpayer money for everyone involved, why don't these people actually stop a terror attack for once.
AFAIR at least in Poland you can get a second passport if you travel to countries that hate each other