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- From: babu@weierstrass.WPI.EDU (Babu Gopalakrishnan)
- Newsgroups: alt.visa.us,soc.culture.indian
- Subject: Re: US born child of green card holders
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 07:45:09 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Lines: 44
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- References: <1992Dec18.234351.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> <1992Dec21.143221.13377@engage.pko.dec.com> <1992Dec23.230626.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec23.230626.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> ff76@vaxb.acs.unt.edu (Jhinuk Chowdhury) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.143221.13377@engage.pko.dec.com>, wiryaman@riscee.pko.dec.com (Santa Wiryaman) writes:
-
- <stuff about dual citizenship for a child deleted>
-
- >> Upon departure from the US, show the US passport, so no I-94 needs to be
- >> surrendered. At the port of entry in India, show the Indian passport, so no
- >> visa is required. And upon coming back to the US, show the US passport again.
-
- > .... You see, when you depart
- >or enter a country, there will be departure and admissions stamps on the
- >passport. If, at the point of entry, an individual's paasport looks like this
- >person has *not * come through the departing country's official channels,
- >wouldn't that cause red flags to go up all over the place.
-
-
- One thing to remember is that it is the responsibility of the
- airline to make sure that you have the necessary documentation
- to enter the country of your destination. So when the airline
- staff remove the I-94s from the Indian passport of the mother,
- and then have a look at the US passport of the child, they
- may notice that the child does not have a visa to enter India.
- This would be grounds for them to refuse to allow the child to
- board the plane.
-
- If this phase in the journey is overcome, it shouldn't be too
- difficult to get in and out of India with the child's name
- on the mother's passport.
-
- Then the problem arises again upon entering the United States.
- If the Immigration officer is attentive, he may notice that
- the child has returned from India with no Indian visa in the
- passport. If the child hasn't travelled much on the US passport,
- arriving back in the US with a blank passport would most probably
- arouse the suspicions of the Immigration Officer.
-
- Cosidering that the chances for problems occuring are all in
- the US, it may be possible to explain the situation to the US
- officials -- they'd definitely be easier to talk to than
- Indian Immigration Officials. But that all depends on how the
- laws governing dual cititzenship are written here.
-
- Babu
-
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