Travelling to the USA with a suspended sentance
Mar 17th 2015, 5:46 am
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Travelling to the USA with a suspended sentance
Hi, hopefully someone can give me some advice on this. I'm hoping to fly to america soon to visit family & friends for a couple of weeks but I have recently received a 12 month suspended sentenced for drink driving but I already have a visa! would this show up at the airport or anything stopping me from going?
Mar 17th 2015, 3:26 pm
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Re: Travelling to the USA with a suspended sentance
Just to be clear, you already have a valid B-2 visa? Why?
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Mar 17th 2015, 5:16 pm
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Re: Travelling to the USA with a suspended sentance
Hi, hopefully someone can give me some advice on this. I'm hoping to fly to america soon to visit family & friends for a couple of weeks but I have recently received a 12 month suspended sentenced for drink driving but I already have a visa! would this show up at the airport or anything stopping me from going?
Mar 17th 2015, 5:59 pm
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Re: Travelling to the USA with a suspended sentance
Mar 17th 2015, 7:26 pm
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Re: Travelling to the USA with a suspended sentance
One doubts he actually has a visa.
Unless of course this brush with the law wasn't the first...
Unless of course this brush with the law wasn't the first...
Mar 17th 2015, 7:43 pm
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Re: Travelling to the USA with a suspended sentance
To the OP, if this is the case and any of your answers to the ESTA questions have changed you must re-apply for a new ESTA.
Mar 17th 2015, 7:43 pm
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Mar 17th 2015, 9:00 pm
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Re: Travelling to the USA with a suspended sentance
To get a suspended for a DUI I would give odds it wasn't his first DUI. I assume by suspended sentence he meant suspended prison sentence, not suspended from driving.
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Mar 17th 2015, 11:25 pm
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Re: Travelling to the USA with a suspended sentance
What are the terms of the suspended sentence are you required to report to the police or probation service. They would likely not take too kindly to you going overseas. I am not sure but it might be a violation of the suspended sentence to leave the country. Are you on a tag?
Perhaps you should ask your solicitor.
Perhaps you should ask your solicitor.
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Mar 17th 2015, 11:27 pm
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Re: Travelling to the USA with a suspended sentance
That would depend upon how many times over the legal limit he was. If he was 4 or 5 times over which is possible he might get a suspended sentence. The more over the limit you are the higher the punishment.
Mar 17th 2015, 11:31 pm
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Re: Travelling to the USA with a suspended sentance
at you giving lansbury criminal justice advice!
Mar 17th 2015, 11:32 pm
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Mar 17th 2015, 11:40 pm
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No I don't actually but 5 guys in there 60s got done at my local snooker club all at once a couple of christmases back. Someone grassed them up and they sent in an undercover copper and blocked the track to the club off with 2 cop cars after all 5 drove away one after the other and all 5 tested positive. 
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