Comments on: “Stop revoking passports,” NARSOL tells State Department

By: Jorge M

Jorge M — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 01:11:11 +0000

Wonder how the law is interpreted if one had a “adjudication withheld” and labeled as a SO? It is not a conviction and to interpret it as a conviction would be technically incorrect. Wouldn’t it?
Besides, a passport is stating “and” not a “and/or” labeling. So how would this apply? Just looking for clarification.

By: HD

HD — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:53:25 +0000

Let’s not forget the Hitler stamp (Not since Stalin’s Russia or Hitler’s Germany have passports had unique identifiers) is Compelled Speech that in most countries is a non-truth compelled speech. If your charge states Possession of illicit material depicting a person under the age of 18 …. and the country you are traveling to has an age of legal consent under the age of 18, like 16, 15 or 14, then the Hitler identifier can be interpreted by these countries as this traveler committed an offense on someone under the age of 14, which could be entirely not true. It’s funny how the government wants to protect the rest of the world but not its own citizens, Russian and Belarus have no law against possessing CP and a lot of it is produced there. All the years Philippines age of consent was 12 or Japan’s was 13 and they had legalized CP no one stopped anyone from coming into this country. Registered Citizens need to start a direct email campaign to journalist, state officials and federal officials (all side by side in the same email…gorilla marketing so to speak) and light them all up with congresses Hitleresque practice of IML.

By: SomeoneInCO

SomeoneInCO — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 23:46:57 +0000

How is this legal and such a secret? No one I’ve talked to who watch the news every day knows about this.

By: Former Offender

Former Offender — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 05:33:30 +0000

In reply to William Hart. My advice for what it's worth is not to alter your passport. Your passport belongs to the US Government (which is stated in the first section). In terms of questions, the only thing you can do is try to contact Angel Watch. If they don't reply with in 30 days maybe contact one of your senators and ask their office to help you.

By: Tim in WI

Tim in WI — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 04:21:54 +0000

The only way to stop them is a court battle. Ideally, the plaintiffs would have standing because they had not waived their civil rights for the pre-act qualifying offense. That is the only way to overcome Connecticut DPS and Maryland v Gundy.
No doubt AG will lay claim the “civil and regulatory intent and not demonstrably punitive in effect.” It nevertheless serves the same “general warrant notice” begging additional inspection by foreign nationals,

By: Tony From Long Island

Tony From Long Island — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 04:11:13 +0000

This happened to me. I applied for a passport in 2019. Received it and went to Europe. Upon return, it was revoked for not having the marker. So I had to re-apply and pay the entire fee again. I tried to get that fee waived since it clearly was not MY fault that the marker was not on the passport. Did that work? Yeah right . . .

By: George S

George S — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 16:04:40 +0000

This is stupid what if I was to travel to a country where what I was convicted of in the USA would not be a crime in the country where I planned to travel to, what would be the purpose of telling them that I committed a crime that was not one there? If our government is so concerned about other countries knowing who our criminals are, why not do that with drug dealers, their recidivism rate is like 5 times what a sex offender is!

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 14:43:17 +0000

In reply to Former Offender. So if you have been removed from the registry none of these travel restrictions apply? I was removed over 5 years ago and have been reluctant to travel till now.

By: William Hart

William Hart — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 11:51:03 +0000

I wonder what would happen if the individual just added those 25 words to their own passport.
My passport expires in June. It was issued in 2015 and of course doesn’t carry the identifier. I’ve used it several times domestically and never been questioned. I’ve been told that I can renew it at my county courthouse and that is what I will attempt to do.

By: Former Offender

Former Offender — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 06:43:29 +0000

This was a HUGE mess when it was first implemented back in 2017-2018ish. I myself was reluctant to travel for fear I would have problems with getting into countries. Angel Watch was less than willing to provide any information at that point. I ended up calling my senator and pleading for help regarding the revoking of passports. I live overseas. For the holidays in 2019 and went to the US and came back to my adopted country in Jan 2020. My adopted country I lived in did not know about my conviction before. Apparently my adopted country was notified by Angel Watch and needless to say it caused me headache. Once I explained everything, thankfully, the immigration department decided to let me say. I ended up getting myself removed from the Sex Offender Registry and thus did not have to deal with Angel Watch anymore.

It would have been nice to have more information years ago when I was struggling with all of these issues on my own.