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Travelling to USA after Iran

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  • 15-06-2019 2:30pm
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    Crock Rock
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    I really want to visit Iran. I work with a girl from Afghanistan who is partially Iranian. I have known her since college. We crossed paths again recently. She is a very lax Muslim.


    Iran is not the bad place it is made out to be. Most of it is lies spouted by America.


    However, if you visit Iran, you are denied ESTA for the rest of your life as one of the conditions and the questions you are asked is whether you have been in certain countries, one of which is Iran.


    Obviously, Iran wouldn't share a database with Iran. Could I just travel there and tell fibs on ESTA in future?


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    mazwell
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    Would you not have the Iranian Visa stamp in your passport


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    Crock Rock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Crock Rock


    mazwell wrote: »
    Would you not have the Iranian Visa stamp in your passport


    I would obviously travel to the US after I have a new passport.


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    gmisk
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    Be prepared for a serious grilling

    I went to Egypt on holiday a few months before a visit to US and they gave me a serious questioning


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    Sonny noggs
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    Crock Rock wrote: »
    Iran is not the bad place it is made out to be. Most of it is lies spouted by America.

    According to who? Your friend?


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    Crock Rock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Crock Rock


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    According to who? Your friend?


    Yes. And research which I've done online.


    The Irish DFA don't even consider it an unsafe place. They tell you to take caution there but they give the same warning for France and China.


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    Crock Rock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Crock Rock


    gmisk wrote: »
    Be prepared for a serious grilling

    I went to Egypt on holiday a few months before a visit to US and they gave me a serious questioning


    I won't tell them. That's the point. I'll renew my passport and say nothing.


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    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Crock Rock wrote: »
    Yes. And research which I've done online.


    The Irish DFA don't even consider it an unsafe place. They tell you to take caution there but they give the same warning for France and China.

    Fair enough, wouldn’t be the conclusion I draw.

    Go for it, should be fine with new passport.


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    Bob24
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    Crock Rock wrote: »

    Obviously, Iran wouldn't share a database with Iran.

    I think you are underestimating the Iranians there ;-)


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    dohouch
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    Iran no longer stamps passport. Unfortunately I did have have a stamp, from last October, they stopped stamping in November 2018. Now have 10 year US visa, cost €144 after interview at US Embassy Dublin. Mind you I have visited USA 6 times previously,as tourist and my brother is US citizen.

    We're not suffering, only complaining 😞



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    Plumbthedepths
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    Is this your 4th or 5th idiotic thread today OP?


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    Credit Checker Moose
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    The US have many ways of getting the info even if there is no stamp in your passport.

    The NSA monitor social media and they get many clues from there. Loose lips sink ships.

    I would suspect that any western airline that carries you to Iran would share their passenger lists with the US govt.


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