"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> > > via LAX as transit passenger requires a visa for the USA!!!
> >
> > Jeez!  Are you saying if you *bounce* at LAX, hang for an hour and
> > leave you still need a visa?  Amazing!
>
> Yeah, this all changed after 9/11. I remember some Homeland Security type
> going on about how they were going to plug a significant hole in the
> nation's security, how somebody without a visa could hang out at a US
> airport...

As if terros had no visas.

> Yet one more reason I don't live there!

There was the same sort of rule when you were living there as kid, no ?
I remember my parents had to get a "transit visa" for a 20 minutes stop in
Texas on their way to Mexico. In fact, they were not even allowed to hang
out in the airport, they had to stay in the plane ! That was Cold War then.
People had one day been member of any communist organisation were not even
allowed to take that flight, they were not given  the transit visa. They had
to go via Canada. I guess people do the same now and probably Canadian
airports are happy of the situation.

CC