visa denial

[michellemark]

Has anyone got into the usa,after being turned down for a visa.

[kempie]

It shouldn't be possible.

The United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) Program is an integrated, automated entry and exit capability that records the arrival and departure of any person not a citizen or national of the United States. US-VISIT conducts certain terrorist and criminal checks and verifies identities through comparison of biometric identifiers from a variety of systems. The databases checked include the Consolidated Consular Database (CCD) which stores biometric and biographic records of all who apply for visas and logs all refusals. A person attempting to enter the US via the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) with a current visa refusal logged on the CCD should be flagged for immediate deportation.

[buildersmate]

This is true Kempie, but maybe the questioner means by swimming across the Rio Grande. There are many got into the USA by this and similar routes.

[Rollo]

If you can get into Canada it is all to easy to just walk across the border into the USA.

[JoolsTwo]

It's not that easy rollo - took us nearly 2.5 hours when we did it from Vancouver. And a further 1.5 hours when we took the train from Torronto.

[eltelioni]

Thousands of Mexicans do it every week.

[kempie]

I would be surprised if those "thousands of Mexicans" had applied for and been refused a visa.