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> I absolutely can not wait to go. I would like to go too. Unfortunately, I also travel frequently to the US and visiting Iran would make further trip to the U
by yodsanklai 7y ago
> I absolutely can not wait to go.
I would like to go too. Unfortunately, I also travel frequently to the US and visiting Iran would make further trip to the US potentially problematic.
- mrtksn 7y agoJust get a fresh passport after the trip, with no Iranian stamps. You should be fine unless you are person of interest to intelligence agencies.
- aliceryhl 7y agoThis is a bad idea. Just get a visa. I did that and had no issue with getting the visa nor entering. Do not try to break immigration law — you can easily get permanently banned from entry if you lie to immigration officials.
- mrtksn 7y agoOf course, don't lie if you are asked but there's nothing illegal about getting a new passport. Better not have a stamp of a country that is in very bad relations status with the country you are going to visit. Iran is not the only example here.
- aliceryhl 7y agoYou still have to answer the question "Have you been to Iran?" when applying for the visa waiver program.
- literallycancer 7y agoGetting a second passport is basically standard procedure, why would that get you banned from entry?
- aliceryhl 7y agoGetting the new passport is not the issue. You have to answer the question "Have you been to Iran?" when applying for the visa waiver program, and this application is what you shouldn't lie on.
- grecy 7y agoI have a full page visa and entrance stamps from Sudan in my passport, and I've crossed into the US three times now with that in my passport and they've never said a word.
- yodsanklai 7y agoSeems you're not eligible to a Visa Waiver if you traveled to Iran or Sudan. Which means you need to apply for a visa at your US embassy [1] (which in my case was expensive and required a one day trip). Also it's not only a matter of having an Iranian stamp on your passport. You're not eligible for the VWP even if you visited this countries. I wouldn't try to lie about this! "When can’t I use the VWP (ESTA) and need a visa? Due to personal circumstances: you traveled to certain countries (Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen on or after March 1, 2011)" [1] https://nl.usembassy.gov/visas/visa-waiver-program/ https://nl.usembassy.gov/visas/visa-waiver-program/
- AWildC182 7y agoI think the issue is that Sudan has a very different dynamic with the US with respect to military intelligence/affairs. I don't really think Sudan is considered a sophisticated threat at the moment.
- Apocryphon 7y agoNot to mention, they appear to be going through a transitional stage towards democracy.
- arethuza 7y agoI sometimes used to get an alarming amount of grief entering the US because I had quite a few Turkish stamps in my passport as we used to go there a lot on holiday. I hate to think what would happen with an Iranian stamp!
- nradov 7y agoThe US government is very concerned about people who use Turkey as an entry point to nearby conflict zones in Syria and Iraq. When I applied for the Global Entry program the only interview question they asked me was why I had visited Turkey.
- aliceryhl 7y agoI have an Iranian visa in my passport, so I had to get a US visa to go to the US. I didn't have to talk to anyone when entering — the electronic thingy scanned the visa, and that was it.
- mostafah 7y agoI think they (Iranian government) recently changed the rules and don’t stamp the visa into the passport. Not sure though, you better do a little research about it.
- marouo 7y agoWent to Iran a few years ago and my esta got declined. And I'm from Germany... I don't think I would not get a visa at an embassy.