UPDATED-LAST DAY to double your impact and help make a difference!!!
LAST DAY TO HAVE YOUR DONATION DOUBLED!!
We recently announced that an individual has generously pledged to match every contribution to our latest legal challenge, dollar-for-dollar, up to FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!
That means if you donate 10 dollars, we will have raised 20. 50 dollars will be doubled to 100 and so on. It would be an absolute shame to not take advantage of this opportunity by getting the full benefit of this $5000 pledge. Even if you can only pitch in $5, that becomes $10 and can translate to copies of a deposition transcript, postage or another cost that your donation will cover and that will make a difference.
As of the moment I am publishing this post, we have raised $4,800 We have $200 to go to meet our goal and get the full matching contribution.
The deadline for this matching pledge is MIDNIGHT TONIGHT December 31st. Please help us end 2019 strong and kick start our next legal challenge even stronger!
You can donate here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/donations and select “FAC Non-Registrant Collateral Consequences Challenge” from the Use donation for… drop down.
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Which challenges have matching now? I keep forgetting, plus why not promote that fact underneath the thermometer?
We just hit $4800 as of 11:30AM 12/31/19. Just $200 shy of our goal.
I got one coming. Check it just before midnight tonight!
Hello. I have an important question that must be answered in two days. I submitted it to RegistrantTAG.org last week but no one can answer since approval is still pending (!). However, it’s actually a simple question and you might know the answer yourself. This topic is not treated on FAC.org and, well, since I am margin a donation (and I figured the donations page is hot today) I am posting it here.
I see that I cannot travel to Taiwan. Can I instead travel to Hong Kong first and then, on a separate ticket, travel to Taiwan? I’ve looked to see if anyone has address this issue in your site’s comments but cannot find anything. I am tier 1 but I do have a stamp in the back of my passport—the girl I was dating at the time (in 1995) was 14.
Thanks for your time in reading and answering!
The US does not officially block your entry into another country – it’s just the foreseeable consequences of the notices they send.
When you register your international travel, you are required to provide your itinerary and that is what the Marshals use to transmit the travel notices to receiving countries.
Some countries have let registrants in, some have not. The information on the RTAG site is accurate, but is based on information from people who have traveled and not on any official policy (though some countries, such as the Philippines, have official policies as to registrants and some, such as Japan or even Canada, have policies for all recent convictions).
Hong Kong has not routinely turned people away, but if the Marshals have your itinerary and share it with any other countries in your travel plans, there is a chance you will be denied entry. That chance is impossible to opine on and any advise you get on here will just be anecdotal.
Thanks for the quick reply! I was stupidly waiting for an email alert and here it was all alone. Just gave 111 and am very happy about it.
Your answer has shocked me. My SOAR officer has never asked me for a (detailed) itinerary. Last two years, I only gave one piece of info: the name of the initial destination country (in Europe). I then travel all around after that.
After your reply, I am wondering. Is it possible that one group of cops (US Marshalls) might attack me even though the other (my local SOAR cops) cleared my trip? Also, could a destination airport notify the US when I land—that is, merely tell on me (for brownie points, say) just for my landing there? If so, would I be in trouble, even though the local cops cleared my “itinerary,” just because that city/country was not listed?
UPDATE: I just found your two IML threads and will post the details there. Still, any basic info here would be very helpful, since I need to submit my itinerary, or cancel my whole trip out of fear, in the next two days. (Fear: that the cops might see “Hong Kong to Taiwan” as different than “France to Germany”.) Infinite thanks for you help during this anxious time.
Just made a one-time donation in addition to my regular monthly donation just to take advantage of the matching fund. In this case, every buck counts…twice! Thanks to the anonymous person matching our donations!
And thank YOU for pitching in!!!
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This is a wonderful challenge. If won, is there any way it would it be helpful to those related to a loved one stuck on Florida’s registry as an out of state registrant?