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Author:  Right Hand Man [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:41 pm ]
Post subject:  USA Immigration & Frequent monger visits????
Anecdote & Question for frequent flying mongers:
On my way back from last CR trip I go through US Immigration in Atlanta. Real bitch of a officer gives me the evil eye. (Probably because I was staring at her name tag not her breasts.) :twisted: She busts my chops for 2 trips to CR within 8 weeks. She asks very sternly, "Why did you go back so soon?" I answer. "because it's a great country!" She asks if I have friends there. (Hell baby, I have made lotsa amigas there) I reply, "I make friends everywhere I go." She doesn't think it's funny. I thought she was going to press a button and have me searched.

Have any of you been hassled? Are they targeting sexo touristas? How often can you come & go, apart from the 72 hour rule? Hell, this is a free country. Am I being paranoid? I am thinking about catching a flight back this weekend because fares are great and I am hungry for ticas. I have nothing to hide but condoms and KY juice.
Author:  Dragon [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:50 pm ]
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I've never heard of a gringo being hassled, unless they suspect you are a drug dealer or a tax cheat.
Author:  Firedude [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:08 pm ]
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I was once searched coming back from Thailand. They went thru every square inch of my bags. Probably because I was a single male returning from a prime mongering destination. I also had nothing to hide. So far I haven't been searched returning from CR(knock on wood).

Firedude
Author:  Zebra [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:15 pm ]
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Never had a problem.
Author:  Gamlingman [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:15 pm ]
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44 Trips over 30 Months Never had a problem...

NOW COLOMBIA THATS ANOTHER STORY :roll:
Author:  Right Hand Man [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:18 pm ]
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Thanks for the replies. Anybody be more specific with details of their frequency? I am thinking about a 48 hour run this weekend.

as I type this, thanks GMAN
Author:  Florida [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:34 pm ]
Post subject:  THAT WAS A FUMBLE ON JAN.15TH-2002!!!!!!!
make those plans and go back to KITTEN LAND :) and wear white shorts like DINO :) you are helping kittens :) they need lots of leche :twisted: HAVE A GREAT KITTEN :)
Author:  PacoLoco [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:38 pm ]
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I think you were "hassled" because you were being a smart-ass. They just want a straight answer (and get irritated when they don't get them), if you don't have one make one up and quit holding up the line gringo. :)
Author:  Mucho Gusto [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:43 pm ]
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Right Hand Man wrote:
Anybody be more specific with details of their frequency?


11 trips in 14 months. Never been hassled. Then again, I never stared at the immigration officers' tits either !!! Oh yeah....that's right. You were looking at her name tag !!?!?!?!?!???!!

Come on RHM. Just admit it. You're returning from a mongering destination, and you got caught checkin' out her hooters at the immigration counter. She gotcha !!! LOL !
Author:  Dapanz1 [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:45 pm ]
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I did have one agent in Miami notice that I have made frequent trips to Costa Rica. For the record the agent was male. He asked me why I went so often. "My fiance lives there." Do you enjoy San Jose? "I usually go to Cartago and the beaches."

I wouldn't say that I was being hassled as such. But, I did get a few questions about frequent travel. I'm sure that customs agents can play "Spot the Monger" as well as any of us.

dapanz1
Author:  Right Hand Man [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:45 pm ]
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PacoL, Mikey-B, et al,

Thanks for the advice. :D Officer D**** was probably a sexually repressed Georgia peach of a cat, and she could smell the other kittens on my clothes. I swear I was playing nice.

When in Europe they have 12 lanes for EU citizens and 1 lane for foreigners. In Atlanta, they have 12 lanes for foreigners and one for US citizens. What's wrong with that picture?

I have a bad case of withdrawal & need some hair of the kitten that bit me.
Author:  Florida [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:46 pm ]
Post subject:  THE FEW THE VERY PROUD CRT VIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!
PacoLoco wrote:
I think you were "hassled" because you were being a smart-ass. They just want a straight answer and get irritated by comments like yours, if you don't have one make one up and quit holding up the line gringo. :)
:lol: meow meow :) why 2 trips in 8 weeks :?: i still do not know if i like CR or not :) i like to travel and be asked stupid :?: from silly gringas :) PURA KITTENS :)
Author:  Right Hand Man [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:50 pm ]
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Eureka!

Just dawned on me that she is probably an ex-gringa girlfriend of Ruffnutz and there will be hell to pay for all mongers coming through her line.

That makes more sense!
Author:  Mucho Gusto [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:54 pm ]
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Right Hand Man wrote:
Eureka! Just dawned on me that she is probably an ex-gringa girlfriend of Ruffnutz and there will be hell to pay for all mongers coming through her line.
That makes more sense!

OK !! That makes much more sense! Now we're ALL screwed! BTW...where the hell is RN & GR ? I think they get back today. Looking forward to hearing about their weekend....
Boys......oh boys....??????
Author:  TicaFan [ Tue Oct 04, 2005 2:22 pm ]
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They probably also asked about your occupation. They are looking for clues based on a compilation of info that others gave and turned out to be smugglers or "rule breakers" if you will. They're suspicious about people that go down for presumably no reason. If you're on business, it's probably a no-brainard. I wonder if some of you that have had so many trips and never a problem were on business? But a single guy that gives strange answers and doesn't seem to have had a good reason to go down often get bothered. It was my situation recently and I figure they wondered if I had drugs. Of course, I did not. But a single guy that goes down by himself without friends per se is a suspect to customs. This next trip I will surely have just met a few friends there and made many new ones as I display brochures from my many ecotourism excursions. :twisted:
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