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Date: Sat Jan 04 2003 - 21:27:56 EST
Does anyone know if this also applies to yachts?
From the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/04/politics/04TRAV.html?
ex=1042687608&ei=1&en=df7a56a27a1096b3
U.S. to Make Airlines Give Data on Americans Going Overseas
By DAVID JOHNSTON
EXCERPT:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 — Americans traveling abroad would have to give
the government detailed personal information before leaving or
returning under an antiterrorism rule that the Immigration and
Naturalization Service proposed today.
The rule would force airlines and shipping companies to collect and
submit to the government the name, birth date, sex, passport number,
home country and address of every passenger and crew member. The
intent is to provide the authorities with more complete information
about who enters and leaves the United States.
Currently, air and shipping lines are not required to provide such
information to the government about Americans. The proposed rule
would make it mandatory for carriers to supply the information about
American citizens and noncitizens, immigration officials said.
Much of the information is already collected from people entering the
country in an arrangement in which 80 percent of commercial carriers
voluntarily give personal information about their passengers to the
immigration service, the officials said. The added information would
be collected while the aircraft or vessel was en route to the United
States and electronically transmitted to immigration officials on the
ground at the port of entry.
The rule would also require carriers to provide information about
people who are leaving the United States within 48 hours after the
departure of their flight or vessel, the officials said.
The rule would take effect after a 30-day comment period. It would
apply to passengers and crew members on airlines, cargo flights,
cruise ships and other vessels. The information would be
electronically checked against watch lists and databases of people
suspected of being involved in terrorism or other criminal activity.
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