As reported in the news, he had two French passports and was allowed to carry one of them in Japan in a locked case. Presumably he broke the lock and used it to enter Turkey and Lebanon.
How does this work?
I think the leb authorities will go through the motions. But I agree with you.
The bigger thieves are the Lebanese politicians who are the ire of the current protests in Lebanon. They have fleeced the country to the tune of billions... Multiples of what Carlos has been accused of.
But if you had an Israeli stamp in your passport - or left the slip of paper in, there's a whole host of other countries that will not let you in: Syria Lebanon Libya Kuwait Iran Iraq Pakistan Sudan Yemen
Israel may ask some extra questions - but they won't refuse you entry.
Israel would give you a very hard time if you had visas/stamps from neighbouring Arab states (and vice versa).
Under Apartheid, South African visas/stamps made it very difficult to enter other sub-saharan African countries.
Or catches up people that can’t get a lawyer/consultant’s advice before booking every trip.
It’s 2020 now, presumably you mean “people with no access to the internet”?
https://www.businesstraveller.com/features/apply-second-uk-p...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-13/ingenious...
> You can—and should—hold two passports from the same country, simultaneously.
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> You just need to show written evidence of your conflicting flights, with your name on the reservation. And remember: You can book refundable tickets as proof of travel, show them at the passport office, and then cancel them later. Then you’ll have one handy for any future travel traffic jams.
If you are still in possession of the original passport, the US will issue you a second passport so you can travel internationally during those events.
Same goes for applying for green cards (married a UK citizen? moving to the UK? They're going to take your passport for 30+ days).
I wonder why the plane did not go directly to Lebanon - it is probably to avoid raising suspicion.
They’ve finally started doing a better job of not requiring you to pickup your luggage while transiting only to drop it off another belt a minute later.
But that’s not universal.
If you don’t require transit visas it becomes fairly trivial to get into the US and claim asylum while supposedly in transit to somewhere else.
https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/us-immigration/can-you-...
The only trick would be if the government a priori refused transit visas to people suspected of seeking asylum without hearing the asylum case, which would be a gross violation of immigration law.
How could it?
I think you may be thinking of refusing to honor an existing valid visa at the border, rather than refusing to issue one at all before someone travels.
Only citizens have an absolute right to entry.
Doesn’t Japan have exit controls?
Did they sneak him into the airport as maintenance personnel and then get him on a plane?
https://nypost.com/2019/12/31/ex-nissan-honcho-carlos-ghosan...
(Hiding in a musicians’ case; used by musicians who really weren’t).
Surely this will be made into a movie or even a series.
The airport part is not clear, but either they not very thorough when checking instruments for private jets, or they bribed someone I guess.
Japan now supports tourism efforts but charging 1000¥ to leave the country! https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/10/national/japans...
There are all kinds of manifest declaration requirements that would need to be ignored.
They often do make it hard to get on the plane there though. But once you get to a port of entry, you’re fine.
How can you prove who you are without an ID? Biometrics? Is logging in to Facebook enough?
Likely they can lookup your passport photos.
Since denying entry to a citizen can be a constitutional violation in many places, they’ll have some criteria for the documentation actually required.
Sending you back to the embassy will just move the problem elsewhere.
Things get dicier when there’s no records of you being a citizen (e.g. you were born elsewhere but acquired a citizenship because you were born to a citizen without registering it in any way).
Perhaps because you successfully applied for British citizenship in the UK forty years ago but the government deleted all the records! Several instances of this came to light in the Windrush scandal a couple of years ago.
The moral: if your citizenship is even slightly interesting you need to keep your passport current.
Getting denied boarding because I am a citizen.
By lineage, I’m a citizen of an EU country.
And the EU is launching a “not a visa but sounds a lot like a visa” travel authorization program for visa exempt passengers.
Q1 will probably be: are you a citizen of any of these EU countries?
Legally, I’ll be obligated to trace all this lineage back, through countries that no longer exist and get a lot of paperwork.
Presumably I can’t renounce said citizenship until I prove that I have it first...
The lineage is direct: both parents are citizen’s of that country’s successor.
But maybe it’s more discretionary in reality.
There’s always people willing to give you a hard time even if you’re in the right.
At least in Canada I know how to waste a lot of their time in return.
It doesn’t say “can acquire”, just “acquires”.
Not unlike an American or Canadian born abroad to natural-born Americans or Canadians.
Do you have a source for this? It would be unusual (and incompetent) for the Japanese to permit this.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/02/national/carlos...