getting into the US !

[Lucifer Box]

possesion of cannabis - nearly 20 years ago

In the current climate (and, yes, all your details are sent over the pond when you check in), if you lie about this, you could be in serious trouble.

Your only non-risk option is to get yourself to Grosvenor Square and join the visa queue.

[decode]

You're fecked.

As far as I can see you are only feacked if you own up. I can't see anyway that thay could check for criminal records as you are entering the US. How long would it take to get through customes!
The official line is that the UK is not providing the US with access to the crb database.

[DimPrawn]

Well go for it then. Lie on the form. They can't touch you. You have British Diplomatic Immunity.

[Churchill]

As far as I can see you are only feacked if you own up. I can't see anyway that thay could check for criminal records as you are entering the US. How long would it take to get through customes!
The official line is that the UK is not providing the US with access to the crb database.

About the same amount of time you're on the plane flying over... Your details will be flagged as your passport is scanned.

You're not really clued up on these computer things, are you?

[ImNotFromIndia]

... You're not really clued up on these computer things, are you?

He's an IT contractor ...

[Lucifer Box]

As far as I can see you are only feacked if you own up. I can't see anyway that thay could check for criminal records as you are entering the US. How long would it take to get through customes!
The official line is that the UK is not providing the US with access to the crb database.

Do it your way then, but you are wrong, oh so wrong.

[premiere]

As far as I can see you are only feacked if you own up. I can't see anyway that thay could check for criminal records as you are entering the US. How long would it take to get through customes!
The official line is that the UK is not providing the US with access to the crb database.

Regardless of what you may think...your criminal record will be exposed as your details are checked and sent to the US. It is an offence for an airline to allow you transit to a country if you have incorrect paperwork.

You need a Visa. Why you would want to try to enter the US without one is beyond me. Its such a simple process to get one and you'll be legal!

All you have to do is call Grosvenor house, make an appointment, go queue up, and get your visa.

You may want to be aware tho, that even with a Visa, you are not granted automatic entry to the USA. The immigration officer US side has the right to refuse you regardless of having a visa.

My brother who had a similar conviction to you went through on a waiver to Atlanta and didn't get caught, but that was years ago...since then, a friend of mine (and no...it wasn't me) got returned rather rapidly by Virgin Atlantic when he got US side and they told him to bog off as he didn't have a Visa and hadn't declared his criminal record from 15 years ago for theft....this all happened only a few months ago. Apparantly, they scanned his passport, it flagged the nasty stuff and he got bunged out immediately along with the comment that it is now unlikely he would ever be allowed into the US...even eith the correct visa's etc....you have been warned.

[decode]

OK it looks like the official route will be my approach. Just a pain that it can take up to five months!

[Lucifer Box]

OK it looks like the official route will be my approach. Just a pain that it can take up to five months!

Well, it might only take 5 minutes if they show you out of the building straight away.

"We don't want your sort in our country".

[BrilloPad]

Its my duty to inform the American Embassy of this thread. Unless you buy me a pint.