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Difference between deportation and removal
As I understand it, there are two mechanisms for throwing somebody out of the UK: deportation and removal. Informally, people seem to call both of these "deportation".
What are the differences between them? Who do they apply to? Do they have…
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How did security checks at airports change after September 11th, 2001?
I’m quite young – young enough that I have never flown before the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York.
I have doubts about the movie United 93: Was it possible to enter an airplane with a knife and/or a (fake) bomb? Was the…
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Are non-Muslims allowed to build snowmen in Saudi Arabia and similar countries?
I recently read Saudi Arabia 'fatwa over building of snowmen'. A religious scholar issued a fatwa (which merely means legal opinion) against the building of snowmen, or snow models of animals (such as snow camels). Later in the article, it states…
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Celebrating the same new year several times over?
Is there a commercial service offered to general public that allows you to celebrate the new year several times?
The idea is that you would celebrate it in a time-zone and than move to the next one arriving there before new year.
Of course this is…
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Travelling with two different passports
I was just wondering if you have two passports (a Chinese one and an Australian one), and you booked your airline ticket with the Chinese one, will you have to show both of your passports or just one?
The thing is, on my Chinese passport, it has my…
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New York airports: JFK vs. EWR/Newark?
We're traveling to New York for a week in February. We will be flying with Lufthansa, landing on a Saturday evening around 20:00 and staying in Manhattan. The flight times and prices to John F. Kennedy International Airport and Newark Liberty…
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Airport security: what if I carry an item with traces of explosive?
One day I was travelling from UK to Switzerland, the security officer at Gatwick airport check (with a kind of swab) all my electronic devices (mainly phone and camera chargers + cables) to see if it was in contact with any explosive materials.
Now…
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Is sleeping on the floor in planes allowed, and if not, why not?
The scene last weekend: three cramped people trying to sleep in three bulkhead seats with those annoying immovable armrests and a whole lotta legroom in front. Why not curl up for a nap in all that wasted space?
Now some airlines (eg. Qantas) are…
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What is proper etiquette on bringing one night stands to a hotel room?
somewhat related to "Can a hotel kick you out if you let an unregistered guest share a room with you?":
In the, alas, completely hypothetical scenario where I'm out in a foreign town and just happen to meet someone, I wonder whether it would be…
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How do I get money back for my foreign coins?
Tonight I just cleaned my room and while doing this I found some money. I counted it and I found out that there are a lot of coins from 25 different countries.
I know that normally banks don't exchange foreign currencies in coins, but is there a way…
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What is the name of this small town in Italy somewhere outside of Rome?
Twenty-odd years ago, my wife and son and I were lost in the Italian countryside somewhere between Rome and Venice (not a bad thing except we were low on gas) and we stumbled on a beautiful tiny town whose name was then lost. Until recently! I…
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Am I going to have trouble flying with a reversed name on the ticket?
I'm flying to Peru with my girlfriend next week and I realized that her name is incorrect on the reservation.
Instead of Sally Marie Jones it's Jones Marie Sally.
We're flying into Houston, then Lima, and in Lima we switch airlines for our flight to…
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Why would airlines not let a US citizen with an expired passport board a plane back to the US?
Hilmar wrote in one of their answers:
a US citizen with an expired passport can not be denied entry to the US but no airline will let you board.
His first statement is supported by…
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Forgot item in a hotel in Spain; hotel says I have to send a courier myself because they don't handle international shipments
I recently returned from a trip to Europe. (I live in the United States.) On my way back I had a layover in Madrid and I forgot a coat in the hotel room I stayed at. I contacted the hotel and they said that they have the coat, but that they can't…
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What can I wear to avoid getting frisked and crotch searched by TSA at the airport?
A year ago, traveling through an airport in the United States, I did the usual removal of belt and shoes to get through the TSA checkpoint to enter the terminal.
I typically wear relaxed fit jeans. The problem is that when my belt is off, my jeans…
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