The country’s foreign ministry clarified that updated guidelines do not constitute an official travel notice to the United States.
The German Foreign Ministry updated its travel advice to the Germans traveling to the United States after three citizens were denied and arrested while trying to enter.
“A criminal conviction in the United States, false information about the purpose of the stay or even a slight advance of the period of validity of the entry or exit can lead to prison, detention and deportation of the entrance or exit,” he says explicitly on the official website of the Ministry.
The tips for travelers also indicate that the possession of a document of the electronic travel authorization system (East), the automated system that determines the eligibility of visitors to travel to the US. UU. Under the visa exemption program, it does not automatically guarantee the entry into the US.
“The final decision on whether a person can enter the United States is to the border authorities of the United States. But this is not a surprise, it is the same as in Germany,” said a spokesman for the Ministry to the German newspaper Der Spiegel.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also made a point of emphasizing that the update of the guidelines does not constitute a travel notice to the United States.
Rejected entrance
The update of the travel tips occurs after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday that it was investigate the case of three of its citizens who were denied entry and placed in detention while trying to enter the United States.
“The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs is aware of three cases in which German citizens could not enter the United States and were placed in deportation detention at the entrance,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The detainees include Fabian Schmidt, 34, a permanent legal resident in the United States. According to the American WGBH channel, he was arrested at a Boston airport before being transferred to a detention center in Rhode Island.
Schmidt’s mother, Astrid Senior, said in an interview that her son was “violently questioned” at the airport before being naked and forced to take a cold shower for two employees.
The other two affected citizens were Jessica Brösche, a 29 -year -old Berlin tattoo artist and Lucas Sielaff, 25 years old from Ahalt. However, both were forwarded to Germany.
Brössche had tried to enter the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, in the company of a friend, American citizen.
According to the online fund collection campaign to finance his return, the authorities initially told him that he would be stopped for several days, but what followed was an “alarming sequence of events”, with Brösche transferred and maintained at the Otay Mesa detention center for more than six weeks.
Brösche’s friends said he was put in lone confinement for nine days during his trial.
According to ABC 10News, San Diego Corecivil, the owner of the Detention Center, denied these accusations.
Sielaff returned to Germany at the beginning of March after two weeks of detention, said her girlfriend Lennon Tyler to the Swiss-Anzeiger Swiss Daily. Sielaff entered the United States with a tourist visa and visited Mexico during a short trip.
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