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Mar. 14th, 2005 12:30 amSo I went to Japan.
Only it turns out that my passport expired last month. Only American Airlines didn't check at all to notice this. Which meant that I got detained at immigration at Narita and questioned... and they had to call the US consulate. It was after 5 pm on a Saturday.
They did infact get ahold of someone at the consulate. But apparently (I didn't hear the conversation) the consulate "could not guarantee" that they would be able to renew my passport if I waited until monday.
Therefore I was left with two options, Withdraw Voluntarily (legally, I was never in Japan, no record)... or be "Asked to leave", and get put on permanent record and be unable to enter Japan again... possibly ever.
Obviously, I chose to withdraw.
( Events, short version, past tense )
So now I'm looking into if it's possible to get back. If I can make it in time for the DAI concert wednesday night, I'll do it. If I can't, then I guess Japan will have to wait for summer.
I got back to Fort Collins basically 72 hours after I left it for the last time...
Life lessons? Oh yes.
A longer version of events will be coming later, which I wrote over the past 24 hours or so. It will be locked to avoid spam. Comment if you aren't seeing it and would like to.
Only it turns out that my passport expired last month. Only American Airlines didn't check at all to notice this. Which meant that I got detained at immigration at Narita and questioned... and they had to call the US consulate. It was after 5 pm on a Saturday.
They did infact get ahold of someone at the consulate. But apparently (I didn't hear the conversation) the consulate "could not guarantee" that they would be able to renew my passport if I waited until monday.
Therefore I was left with two options, Withdraw Voluntarily (legally, I was never in Japan, no record)... or be "Asked to leave", and get put on permanent record and be unable to enter Japan again... possibly ever.
Obviously, I chose to withdraw.
( Events, short version, past tense )
So now I'm looking into if it's possible to get back. If I can make it in time for the DAI concert wednesday night, I'll do it. If I can't, then I guess Japan will have to wait for summer.
I got back to Fort Collins basically 72 hours after I left it for the last time...
Life lessons? Oh yes.
A longer version of events will be coming later, which I wrote over the past 24 hours or so. It will be locked to avoid spam. Comment if you aren't seeing it and would like to.
