Muscovites' family spoke about their first acquaintance with New York: interrogation, threats and the vow to tell only the truth

The Russian-speaking couple went on their first trip to the United States. However, the start of the trip was somewhat unpredictable, recalling American films with real interrogations and an oath to tell only the truth. Details were shared by the author of the channel “World through the eyes of Yu” on the site Yandex Zen.

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Hitchhiker in the USA

A Russian-speaking traveler told how she and her husband decided to travel around America. “Not anyhow, but hitchhiking along the famous Route 66 (Route 66 is one of the first highways in the US numbered highway system - Ed.), spending the night in a tent, sometimes in motels, and couchsurfing (CouchSurfing is an online service for travelers – Ed.,” she shares.

At the very beginning, their journey was reminiscent of real American cinema: the author’s husband was detained at a New York airport and nearly deported. But nothing happened. How not to talk with airport employees so as not to run into trouble is discussed below.

First interrogation

So, the couple's journey began in New York. Moskvich flew out four days earlier; The owner of the property found on the CouchSurfing website was already waiting for him on the spot. “It takes about 9 hours to fly to New York from Moscow without transfers. More than 15 hours passed, and still there was no contact with my husband. As a true traveler, I thought that if I didn’t get in touch within 24 hours, then things were bad,” the author writes.

But then the long-awaited call came. It turned out that her husband was detained at the International Airport. John Kennedy in New York. “My husband arrived at J. Kennedy Airport. I got off the plane into a huge, huge hall, stood in line at the computer visa scanner (this is the first stage of border control), scanned all the data, received an electronic form and went to the window of the border service officer,” writes the author.

Next, the traveler approached a young Latin American girl for control. She checked something in the database and asked if it was his first time in the US. The answer was yes. She then asked if he had a job here. “Temych was from the category of self-employed at that time. And no one could have imagined that such questions could arise at control if you already have a visa. It’s so difficult to get it in Russia,” the author explained.

The traveler admitted that he has no job in America.

After that, the girl asked how much money he had to finance his trip to the USA. “$2000 in cash and $1500 on card,” he replied. But since airport workers could not check the balance on the card, they did not take this amount into account. Therefore, they decided that the Russian only had $2000 with him.

He was then asked how much he plans to be in the United States. When they learned that he came for a month, they asked: “And how can you live a month with this money here? Can you imagine what your expenses will be? ”

The Muscovite replied that he travels very economically, lives in hostels, which is inexpensive. “Do you have a reservation to confirm your stay?” - asked the airport worker. And I received an answer that there was a reservation, but only for one night. He also explained that he wanted to first make sure that the housing would be suitable. “I can’t be sure I’ll like it there. I would like to look at this hostel first, if everything is good there, I will extend my stay, but if not, I will find another accommodation option. I always do this,” he explained.

This was followed by a question about the route of travel. The author’s husband said that he plans to visit New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Chicago. He explained that he planned to travel by bus.

As a result, the girl replied that, in her opinion, this money would not be enough for the trip. “You have to pay for housing, transportation, food,” she said.

Thus, the airport employee came to the conclusion that the Russian came here to work. To refute such speculation, he invited her to check her passport - there were more than 40 stamps from different countries, including Canada. Also, there were no notes on any visa violations in the document.

Interrogation in a special room

The officer called another employee, gave him a Russian passport, and he invited the traveler to follow him into a special room. “A minute later they entered a small room where about 10 border service officers were sitting at a large table. And in the hall, about 100 people of the most dubious appearance were waiting on chairs,” the author writes.

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