I was looking into visiting Cuba in 2024 but there seems to be a lot of conflicting information. Does anybody have good resources on how best to visit without being put onto a watch list or whatever?
I was looking into visiting Cuba in 2024 but there seems to be a lot of conflicting information. Does anybody have good resources on how best to visit without being put onto a watch list or whatever?
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Unless you work for an NGO or are a journalist or something then getting a citizenship from a different country might be easier.
Looks like I may have been corrected within this thread and it's pretty easy if you just only use cash and semi lie. If I were American I dunno if I'd fuck with it to be a tourist. If you don't have any contacts in a place you're visiting who live there, you're never really seeing the place. You'll be spending your tourist dollars well, better to give your money to Cuba than most places, though I'm pretty sure American money won't really get you anywhere, this is from people I know going in the past. Canadian money is very readily accepted, or was, most of my Intel is pretty old.
One of my friends went while he was homeless, it was around Christmas so he made like a grand in a couple days (dude is amazing at panhandling) and since he was trying to get clean off heroin, he looked into other ways to spend the money and just prior to 9/11 he spent about $600 on the round trip flight and $400 to stay at a resort. He couldn't be a recovering addicted and homeless with $1000 so that was his move. Cuba is a super super common vacation place for Canadians, I don't know if I've ever met someone who's done the typical Carribean vacation thing anywhere else. Mostly cause it's cheap as hell.
I am not an authority on US customs and travel regulations, don't take my word as guaranteed to keep you out of trouble.
That said, everything I see has told me that you can check a box saying you are going for "Support for the Cuban People", and that and a visa (which Cuba is willing to do their part for) will get you in. You are not supposed to spend money at certain state owned enterprises and you are supposed to document what you do so that it is in-line with your reason for going, but it's not like anyone actually checks that shit anyways, so realistically you are probably not going to get called out if you "support the Cuban people" with tourism money. It seems that the people who actually get fined for doing this are people making documentaries and shit, so you're probably safe as long as you contain any latent instagram influencer urges. Tens of thousands of Americans visit every year and it seems only a couple dozen at most might get caught.