I’ve heard people getting banned from country’s and I want to know what you have to do to get banned and how they know you are banned from that country
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Primarily by breaking the laws of that country. However a country can basically deny you entry for any reason, so it could be something as simple as you insulted their dear leader so they said you weren’t welcome.
You get banned by breaking the law or attempting to enter the country illegally. They know that you’re banned because when you apply for a visa or show up without one your info will be flagged and show that you’re banned and you will be denied entry and sent back home.
It could also be you lied on your visa (saying its tourist and intend to work or missing info like previous convictions) this will result in the visa being cancelled and potentially a ban
The easiest way to get banned from a country is to get permission to go there for a certain amount of time and then not go home when the time’s up, a.k.a. overstaying a visa.
They know you’re banned because they check your passport when you go into the country. Actually the airline checks it before they even let you on the plane because they don’t want to have to pay for you to fly back.
Some places you can’t travel to if you have a criminal record. The UK and the US are among those countries.
In many case especially if two countries don’t have an specific agreements saying otherwise there may be a ton of reason to deny a person entry into a country.
If you are not from a list of countries from which citizens can come to the US Visa-free, you may be denied entry simply for being too poor, being single, being unemployed or having not finished higher education and thus being a theoretical greater risk of overstaying your visa and becoming an illegal immigrant.
US immigration are less concerned about a happily married, middle age business owner going back home after a visit than a poor young single guy without any big roots back home.
Some countries have far more restrictive rules about who can come to visit than others. How and why they limit who can come is usually a result of politics culture and pragmatism.
If you are a poor country that makes a lot of money from tourism, you have other concerns than a rich country that where people fear that foreigners are going to immigrate to if given the chance.
Xenophobia, racism and religious bigotry also tend to play a big role.
Security also factors into it. Even besides the fairly common restriction on convicted criminals people might get banned even just for the suspicion of criminal activity or the fear that someone might cause crime or unrest.
If you get kicked out of a country because you broke a local law you generally won’t be allowed to come back.
Some country have no diplomatic relation with some country. For an example, Israeli are generally not allowed to enter some Islamic country.
To piggyback off of this, does anyone know how to get banned from a country without being arrested? I would like to be banned from Saudi Arabia, but I don’t want to go through the hassle of actually going there (I never want to go there). I just think it would be cool to say I’m banned from Saudi Arabia.
Countries are able to choose how hard or easy it is for certain categories of people, or for specific people, to enter.
The norm is to require a “visa” – basically, the traveler has to fill out some paperwork in advance of their trip, telling the country why they want to enter, and the country’s governmental offices can either let them in for a certain amount of time for a certain purpose, or refuse to let them in.
A lot of countries will have “visa waivers” with other countries that they trust. For example, an American citizen with a passport and a clean criminal record can come and go to Canada for tourism or shopping pretty freely.
Anyway, back to the point. At a basic level, a country can choose who it lets in. They absolutely can and do maintain lists of specific groups and people who they will just plain not let in. These lists are accessible to all of their border guards. A lot of countries will “ban” people for having a criminal record, or for having a record of drunk driving, or for being a member of a certain religion, or for ever having consumed cannabis.
The choice is ***entirely*** up to the country’s government. They have “sovereignty” – they have the final say in who is allowed in.
Oh, and the border guards themselves have a lot of discretional power. Putting aside the USA-Canada “visa waiver”, a US border guard can choose to refuse entry to a Canadian citizen for having a very minor criminal record, and from that point forward, that Canadian citizen is basically “banned” from the USA – they will have to fill out visa paperwork and hope for visa approval the next time they ever want to enter the USA.
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