PassPort Control Experience being a US Citizen

[MdAngie 0]

Hey Guys,

not sure if this is a good place to ask this and share my experience but please advise if you know the answer.

I recently came back to the US from a vacation from Canada. I am now a US Citizen. While passing over the passport control with my US Passport i was sent to the room for questioning. The officer asked me if i was ever deported and my answer was no because i have never been deported but she stated it was showing in my records. I just dont understand how they can show up in my records.

is there a way to see my records... when i was going through the N400 process, it never came up nor the IO mention anything about deportation, i would imagine they would be more concern to bring that up than an officer from an airport passport control

[stevie b 141]

I don't know if it helps, but I got all my criminal history for free from my state's judicial department.. only took about a week to get it

[Jawaree 717]

Could b mistake if U have never been charged with a crime or deported

remember ppl enter the data in the computer,could be a human error, there

is a dept. that U can write in DC and get this sorted out so U don't get harassed

everytime U travel

[HeatDeath 430]

Google "FOIA inquiry". It stands for "Freedom of Information Act". It'll take a while, and the process isn't for the faint of heart (nor - I suspect - wallet), but that should get you access to those records in the absence of any more convenient channels within CBP or the State Department.

[NickD 202]

Could also be your name as to how common it is. Sure ran into problems with my stepdaughter with the USCIS having a very common Latin American name. Literally thousands with the same name had criminal records. The burden of proof she was not any of those was on our shoulders.

You are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.

[English Muffin 59]

http://www.dhs.gov/dhs-trip

[MdAngie 0]

Thank you all for the response.. i will google it online and see how i can have that fixed...its just a pain that i have to go through double screening already being a US Citizen

[NickD 202]

Good luck with that, as a veteran of a foreign war, St. Louis had a fire burning all their copies, but okay, I saved all of my military records, and do have my VA card. Would have gotten an additional discount on a new car purchase, but the dealer couldn't find my records in the database they have. Even went to my VA office with my records, but they refused to put me in their database, idiotic bureaucrats.

Well my dealer ended up giving me a better cash discount that what I would have received with the VA discount, but sures tees me off they won't put me in their stupid database.

Then the State of Illinois hired a bunch of idiots that can't even type to change written records to their database, destroying the originals for birth certificates. My birth certificate was loaded with typos. Took me three months with them to straigthen that out with all kinds of proof. Then that certicate was loaded with hatch marks. But in the process, I did find my original birth certificate, of all places, it was jammed in my four inch thick file of military records, come to think of it, was the last time I had to show it. So I used that instead for immigration, yet another stupid governmental agency.

But someone has that in their database, or I would have never received my draft notice with my exact date of birth on it besides my exact name and address. . But they still wanted to see my birth ceritificate! Just like the USCIS!