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I don't mind my passport lasting longer due to fewer stamps. What I don't like is that more and more countries require pre-registration. They can add as many qu

by sureIy 2y ago

I don't mind my passport lasting longer due to fewer stamps. What I don't like is that more and more countries require pre-registration. They can add as many questions as they want and the form can be as crappy as it needs to be. Hopefully this will be fully automated at check in though. They already have all the info there, don't ask me twice. Send me an email if you won't accept me into your country. It can have its upsides.

Kon-Peki 2y ago
Boaters, especially in northern Michigan and northern Washington (where the various small islands can almost seem randomly distributed between Canada and US), can get an app on their phone (the "CBP ROAM" app) to handle their frequent border crossings. A user creates a "trip" on the phone at the beginning of the day and then presses a button every time they cross the border. If the US has a problem they do a video call through the app. It's been around for a few years.
- mistrial9 2y ago
  > can get an app on their phone ok, do you want that, or are you required to have that.. Uniform servicemen already have made agreements about their data, locations, records, check-ins ad infinitum.. but citizens have not made those agreements.. So uniform services will just make those agreements mandatory.. there is no end to this. especially irksome is piling on requirements for constant check-in among law abiding people who own property and pay taxes.. while somehow hundreds of thousands can walk around living in parks in the South ? I am not even extreme on this topic .. it just defies common sense and says Slippery Slope in giant letters
  - Kon-Peki 2y ago
    You have to fill out request forms, and have an interview, and if they like you they allow you to use the app. People want it because it lets them do what they want with less hassle and it makes many trips possible that are impossible if you have to cross the border at a manned border crossing. But of course, there is a slippery slope danger.
  - avianlyric 2y ago
    Sounds like you’ve got people moving backwards and forwards frequently between the U.S. and Canada. Both countries are going to want to track those boarder crossings, doing it in an app just makes it easier for everyone. Don’t really see what a bunch of people wondering around parks all located in the same country has to do with boaters moving between a smorgasbord of islands belonging to two different countries, and thus randomly crossing the boarder back and forth multiple times in a single trip.
  - lazyasciiart 2y ago
    You are annoyed that border controls don’t also affect what people can do thousands of miles away from the border? And you are also afraid of a slippery slope where border controls become ever more strict and interfering? That is a very odd pair of thoughts.
  - dghlsakjg 2y ago
    None of it is required, at least on the ocean in Washington. When you cross the border on the water, you aren't required to report until you go to land (if you never set foot in Canada, but only sail through territorial waters, there is no requirement to report), at which point you must go to a specified customs dock, and present your paperwork.

by sureIy 2y ago

Kon-Peki 2y ago

Boaters, especially in northern Michigan and northern Washington (where the various small islands can almost seem randomly distributed between Canada and US), can get an app on their phone (the "CBP ROAM" app) to handle their frequent border crossings. A user creates a "trip" on the phone at the beginning of the day and then presses a button every time they cross the border. If the US has a problem they do a video call through the app. It's been around for a few years.

mistrial9 2y ago
> can get an app on their phone ok, do you want that, or are you required to have that.. Uniform servicemen already have made agreements about their data, locations, records, check-ins ad infinitum.. but citizens have not made those agreements.. So uniform services will just make those agreements mandatory.. there is no end to this. especially irksome is piling on requirements for constant check-in among law abiding people who own property and pay taxes.. while somehow hundreds of thousands can walk around living in parks in the South ? I am not even extreme on this topic .. it just defies common sense and says Slippery Slope in giant letters
- Kon-Peki 2y ago
  You have to fill out request forms, and have an interview, and if they like you they allow you to use the app. People want it because it lets them do what they want with less hassle and it makes many trips possible that are impossible if you have to cross the border at a manned border crossing. But of course, there is a slippery slope danger.
- avianlyric 2y ago
  Sounds like you’ve got people moving backwards and forwards frequently between the U.S. and Canada. Both countries are going to want to track those boarder crossings, doing it in an app just makes it easier for everyone. Don’t really see what a bunch of people wondering around parks all located in the same country has to do with boaters moving between a smorgasbord of islands belonging to two different countries, and thus randomly crossing the boarder back and forth multiple times in a single trip.
- lazyasciiart 2y ago
  You are annoyed that border controls don’t also affect what people can do thousands of miles away from the border? And you are also afraid of a slippery slope where border controls become ever more strict and interfering? That is a very odd pair of thoughts.
- dghlsakjg 2y ago
  None of it is required, at least on the ocean in Washington. When you cross the border on the water, you aren't required to report until you go to land (if you never set foot in Canada, but only sail through territorial waters, there is no requirement to report), at which point you must go to a specified customs dock, and present your paperwork.