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You can still apply for a passport with a criminal conviction. Some countries after that require visas as well but a lot don't. Not everyone wants to travel there anyway but still, I think the passport thing can be laid to rest surely lol.
4.10 Applying for an Australian passport
Past convictions are not relevant to the issuing of an Australian passport. The
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is only concerned if any of the
following conditions exist:
• any outstanding warrants for arrest;
• if the person is on Commonwealth parole;
• if a Commonwealth, State or Territory Court has ordered a person to
refrain from applying for a passport; or
• any relevant bail conditions.
(see section 7B of the Passports Act 1938 (Cth))
4.11 Overseas Travel
(a) United States
If you wish to travel in the United States and you have a criminal record,
particularly if it is a drug conviction, you will need to apply for a tourist
visa. When applying for the tourist visa, you will need to provide details of
the conviction and punishment. Whether or not the tourist visa is issued
will depend on the nature and severity of the offence and punishment. The
visa application will take at least 10 working days to be processed.
(b) United Kingdom
If you are a holiday or business visitor travelling on an Australian passport
and you intend to stay in Britain for less than 6 months, you will not
normally need a visa (ie entry clearance) unless you have been previously
refused entry. Convictions might be grounds for refusal of entry.
(c) Other countries
Similar rules are likely to be applicable when seeking visas for other countries.
4.10 Applying for an Australian passport
Past convictions are not relevant to the issuing of an Australian passport. The
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is only concerned if any of the
following conditions exist:
• any outstanding warrants for arrest;
• if the person is on Commonwealth parole;
• if a Commonwealth, State or Territory Court has ordered a person to
refrain from applying for a passport; or
• any relevant bail conditions.
(see section 7B of the Passports Act 1938 (Cth))
4.11 Overseas Travel
(a) United States
If you wish to travel in the United States and you have a criminal record,
particularly if it is a drug conviction, you will need to apply for a tourist
visa. When applying for the tourist visa, you will need to provide details of
the conviction and punishment. Whether or not the tourist visa is issued
will depend on the nature and severity of the offence and punishment. The
visa application will take at least 10 working days to be processed.
(b) United Kingdom
If you are a holiday or business visitor travelling on an Australian passport
and you intend to stay in Britain for less than 6 months, you will not
normally need a visa (ie entry clearance) unless you have been previously
refused entry. Convictions might be grounds for refusal of entry.
(c) Other countries
Similar rules are likely to be applicable when seeking visas for other countries.
I truly am sorry for any hurt my words may have caused. It was honestly not my intent. When you know better, you can do better, and I will
Where I was born and raised got hit by that terrible Tornado today. We always joked about coming from Far Kurnell!
Well today was FAR KURN ELL!!!!
I lived there for the first 19 years of my life and am devestated at the mess left behind by Mother Nature.
The Birthplace of our Nation being torn apart like that
Just a different way to look at Karma and Racism and Climate Change amd Claiming Land and etc etc .......
I still have a few friends that still live there, they never moved on to 'bigger and better things' and stayed to enjoy the Village and the Beauty the area holds.
I saw some of that on the news this morning! Hopefully no one was hurt.
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The US excludes her from the Visa Waiver program and she has a chance if she pre-prepares and pays for expensive Visas that law abiding citizens like me don't have to.
As for Japan, c'mon Insomniac, please tell me she'll get in
. Getting an Australian passport doesn't change foreign laws of entry. It means she can board a plane and get bounced on landing.Go the whole hog and tell Trala to prepay accommodation in Japan. Oh pretty, pretty please do that.
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The US excludes her from the Visa Waiver program and she has a chance if she pre-prepares and pays for expensive Visas that law abiding citizens like me don't have to.
As for Japan, c'mon Insomniac, please tell me she'll get in
Go the whole hog and tell Trala to prepay accommodation in Japan. Oh pretty, pretty please do that.
There are a lot more countries in the world apart from those though. You were saying she couldn't get a passport, which I'm guessing you meant visa for certain countries?
I'm not saying she'll get into some countries, and would anybody really prepay those without organising entry first? It won't prevent her getting a passport though which is what your contention has been forever.
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When did I ever say she couldn't get a passport. Quote it!
Haha I'll have to look through the muddied waters of previous posts when I have more time - if you haven't mentioned an actual passport then I will admit my error. However you have mentioned on many an occasion that she would never be able to travel overseas and to paraphrase sucked in regarding that, and this is not entirely factual is it?
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Oh, the sweet silence of Insomniac not finding a single instance of the garbage she spouted as having been contended forever. There's a big difference between forever and never, Dopey.
Quote the 'never be able to travel overseas' part while you're busy being unable to back up your multiple 'quotes' and in bold letters lie. You say many occasions. Find one. I've said she'll be cold sweating on any plane and immigration queues will be an adventure and to think of my smiling face in the special interrogation room.
Quote the 'never be able to travel overseas' part while you're busy being unable to back up your multiple 'quotes' and in bold letters lie. You say many occasions. Find one. I've said she'll be cold sweating on any plane and immigration queues will be an adventure and to think of my smiling face in the special interrogation room.
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lol some of us have to work you know and can only pop in and out on the forum. Perhaps you'd like to re-read my last post while you're at it where I said if you hadn't then I would admit it? Slow at comprehension much?
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That's right. Too busy to find a single instance of something you state was said 'on many an occasion'. No genius, Trala started referring to the passport aspect today and yesterday and you were suggestible enough to falsely attribute her unfamiliarity with travelling to someone who is 500,000 miles familiar. Trala said she was entitled to a passport very early on when I mentioned travel difficulties for her chequered past and I think it's a great document for countries to stamp 'denied' onto hers. Use 'chequered' for your search. Confidence and your struggling allows me to be gifting you search terms for your research.lol some of us have to work you know and can only pop in and out on the forum. Perhaps you'd like to re-read my last post while you're at it where I said if you hadn't then I would admit it? Slow at comprehension much?
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Cool, I'm happy for you. Are you replete following your daily fix for your forum superiority complex? lol
500,000 travel miles doesn't actually mean shit outside of your own ego, you know that right?
I've been overseas once in my life too and that was when I was 11. What does that matter? Are you not satisfied with where you live?
You also seem fixated on putting down someone else's intelligence, of which you know nothing, does that make you feel better too?
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Given I've demonstrated you to be a repeat liar, I'll accept arrogance based on fact as a character flaw.Cool, I'm happy for you. Are you replete following your daily fix for your forum superiority complex? lol
500,000 travel miles doesn't actually mean shit outside of your own ego, you know that right?
I've been overseas once in my life too and that was when I was 11. What does that matter? Are you not satisfied with where you live?
You also seem fixated on putting down someone else's intelligence, of which you know nothing, does that make you feel better too?
Liar? lol
Repeat liar? lol
Yeah okay he whose horizontal waterfall = pissing on a tree in his back yard.
You have demonstrated nothing outside of your exceedingly narrow pedant vision besides a failure to see the big picture. When you learn to take in the context of a discussion in its entirety instead of harping on one word of it and persistently self-congratulating yourself over it you'll find you can actually communicate with people in a mutual context.
Once again (for the slow ones) I have said that IF I was mistaken then I would admit it. Pity you weren't big enough to say the same, sir.
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You can add yourself to the list of Pythagoras denying Luddites with jealousy, but it's a sign of your small mindedness and limited horizons that pages of toenail tales are Kosher but mention of a private rainforest is tall poppy territory.
Jealousy? lol. You really are proving yourself to be quite socially unaware. I care not how much money you have or whatever else you want to build yourself up with. Good on you, really. Your own personal sense of superiority is limited to you alone, tall poppy = stinkweed, truly. Once again you've missed the whole point of things and focused on 10% of the post at most. Whatever you say, spanky.
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Proof that you actually have plenty of time to not be working and could be finding the claims you lied had occurred forever and on many occasions. You have plenty of time for ego defence and tall poppy belittlement, but not enough time to support a jot of your sycophantic lies.
I think you need to look up the definition of proof. I haven't lied about anything, much less on many occasions. Perhaps you need to look at the definition of that too. Opinions are not lies. For instance, I think you're behaving like a fuckwit right now. That is an opinion and also supported by evidence. You're not a tall poppy therefore there can be no tall poppy belittlement. To me you're just words on a screen and someone with just as many issues as anyone else so please. Check yourself.
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