The dreaded SSSS
12-26-2022 | 03:54 PM
#11
All is fine at .79
Joined: Sep 2016
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From: Paahlot
Did you try and apply for Global Entry? It requires and additional background check and an “interview”.
It may just clear up whatever is following you around.
I thought checking cellphones and demanding passwords was an Immigration thing not a TSA checkpoint ‘must comply’.
It may just clear up whatever is following you around.
I thought checking cellphones and demanding passwords was an Immigration thing not a TSA checkpoint ‘must comply’.
12-26-2022 | 03:58 PM
#12
Line holder
Joined: Nov 2013
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From: Aircraft & Seat: old & hard
Maybe. I had a geen card for a few years. Now a have a blue passport. Definitely had a huge impact on any interaction with people in uniform. Both directions.
12-26-2022 | 04:32 PM
#13
in holding
Joined: Dec 2017
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From: single-pilot multi turbine captain
Maybe related - maybe not:
My family name is very unique - if we share it, we're related. Probably comes from our roots at the foot of a volcano😋Never had any issue with CBP before they were called that or TSA since inception.
Now, my wife has an exceedingly common name, and it happens to be shared with countless folks who have overstayed visas or worse. We kept getting held aside, and a CBP officer one day explained the foregoing to us. He pointed out that adding your middle name - or at least middle initial - to all ID in her circumstance does a lot to cut down the lists they check against. She did that and it's been fine ever since.
My family name is very unique - if we share it, we're related. Probably comes from our roots at the foot of a volcano😋Never had any issue with CBP before they were called that or TSA since inception.
Now, my wife has an exceedingly common name, and it happens to be shared with countless folks who have overstayed visas or worse. We kept getting held aside, and a CBP officer one day explained the foregoing to us. He pointed out that adding your middle name - or at least middle initial - to all ID in her circumstance does a lot to cut down the lists they check against. She did that and it's been fine ever since.
12-26-2022 | 04:35 PM
#14
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I had a green card and now blue passport too. TSA had no clue as they never saw the passport. I noticed zero difference in interactions with them. CBP are maybe 10% "friendlier" with the blue passport, if you can describe their demeanor that way at all.
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