HELP!!!!!

amo_09

:pac: Hey!!!!!

Hopefully Someone Can Help Me

I'm thinking of booking a weeks hoilday to America for me and the boyfriend, the problem is hes got a criminal record from his teens threw to his early 20's for drugs, fraud & almost theft of a car where the owner came out & was cut from the glass no sure what that when under but he was also done of that, anyway he pleaded guilty to all & got 7 years, he did 5.

He has since turned his life around & kept out of trouble. Am i wasting my time booking it?????

Sangre

Yes.

jhegarty

He needs to apply for a visa.

Contact the embassy.

amo_09

Do you reckon if i contact them they'll let him. Everyone is telling us just to go ahead and see what happens.

jhegarty

I have no idea on his chances.

Don't risk it, it's really not worth it. The US don't mess about if you lie on one of thier forms.

amo_09

Ok cool. Thanks

Del2005

Call the US Embassy and make an appointment to get a visa. There's a premium rate number on the side of the page you have to call.

Whatever you do don't just book your flights and rock up to the airport then hope for the best as the US has got very strict over who they let in. And I doubt you want to loose the cost of 2 flights to the US over something that could have been easily sorted out before.

Their FAQ's have links for what crimes don't allow entry.

nuac

Make a full disclosure to the embassy when seeking the visa. Agree fully wiht previous posters not to take any chances with US authorities.

For again it would be better to state the topic in the title to your thread

dermot_sheehan

Drugs and fraud are crimes of moral turpitude.

He is therefore barred from the United States unless a special exemption is granted.

This is time consuming, expensive and will probablt be refused if offences were committed in the recent past.

The U.S. to my knowledge is not linked into PULSE, so the only way they will know is the officer at duty at the border making enquiries with an garda siochana or by a person telling them.

If he tells them he will be refused.

If he doesn't tell them, he commits the offence of immigration fraud under U.S. law. He has a good chance of getting away with it, however if he seeks U.S. permanent residency in the future he has to produce police character certificates from all the places he lvied. These will show his previous irish convictions. This coupled with him committing immigration fraud by lying to enter the u.s. would bar him from u.s. permanent residency for ever.

It sounds like his record is serious enough to bar him from permanent residency in the u.s. anyways, and its serious enough he won't get an exemption from the moral character requirements until many years have passed since his last offence. He therefore has very little to lose (except the price of an air ticket), by taking his chances and going without telling the americans about his past.