ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
11% were the last figures I saw and 57% of that was non-EEA. Restrcit movement of criminals into The UK......................Here's one for you:
The US Department of Homeland Security does not have direct access to either The PNC here or even ViSOR. They would have to make an individual request on a person of interest via Interpol to do so. Unless they've got random intell, that 'aint gonna happen. So basically, unless you're:
On a Home Office or equivalent watch-list.
Have a name which gives, criminal or otherwise, notoriety
Are freed on license from a custodial sentence or the subject of your probation or bail terms prohibit it (Though having had dealings with HM Prison and Probation Service I wouldn't put money on this helping that well)
Tick some passenger profile boxes to become a person of interest - e.g you're called Muhammad, you're from Bradford, you've been in Pakistan the last 6 months, you're travelling to the US for the first time and doing so alone.
You'll be able to enter the US via a successful ESTA application through The VWP rather than apply for and be granted a full US visa following an interview at The US Embassy as you're supposed to if you have a a criminal conviction. Various organisations/ charities for ex-offenders here even openly advise this approach for ex-criminals wanting to visit The US. There is a specific question to drug convictions for an ETSA, but the changes in 2017 to include - Have you ever been arrested or convicted for a crime that resulted in serious damage to property, or serious harm to another person or government authority? - is so subjective, because the US authorities know the score on this one too.
Someone I went to school with, who I haven't seen in 25 years has 2 criminal convictions, both resulting in custodial sentences, the second of which was for drug dealing - he's been to Florida no problem apparently, for example.
This notion some people have that post Brexit we'll be somehow doing better than The US in this regard and stopping criminals entering the UK, is just fanciful I'm afraid.
