It is unlikely that the debt-ridden county/state is going to fork out thousands of dollars for international extradition. Moreover, they would have to get the local authorities here to cooperate, which is unlikely in height of the Anti-American political regime. In other words, perhaps for a sex crime or homicide or arson or some other example of a high-level felony.
America wants to throw everyone in fucking jail because jails and prisons are big business in America – People are the commodity. That said, I am wondering if draco-America will give approved a replacement passport.
The obvious question is whether or not they have the OP’s warrants in their database. While theoretically you think they should; the responsible parties may not have filed the paperwork correctly.
I’m not sure how closely the passport people communicate with the judicial system. If you’re on the FBI’s Ten Most-Wanted List, then you’d probably be sure not only to be denied but also picked up at the embassy when you return for your passport.
I’ve known dodgy types in Thailand who have renewed their passports with no problem. (No, I’m not referring to myself, thank you.) Some student-loan defaulters have gotten new passports. I’m sure some criminal types have, but I don’t know if actual warrants were out for them. It’s unclear how thoroughly the passport people stateside check into criminal backgrounds for renewals, let alone the embassy.
You lost your passport (or had it stolen) about half a year ago and you haven’t reported it? You may be up a foreign creek. The usual way of going about things is to report your passport lost/stolen to the local cop shop and then to your embassy or consulate. Once you’ve reported the thing lost/stolen, then you apply for a new passport. The US doesn’t have embassies/consulates cut the passports anymore so you’ll have to wait for whatever the current turnaround time is. When you get the new passport, then you hie to the local immigration office and inform them of your new passport so they can transfer your visa to the new passport.
All of that’s assuming you do get a new passport instead of merely a diplomatic document stating your citizenship (note verbal?) which you can use solely for the purpose of traveling back to the US.
p.s. Won’t you be in some kind of trouble anyway with the court back in the US for leaving the country in the first place?
Obviously I’m going to be up shits creek you dummy! I was out on bail! But fuck them and their bail! Who holds those criminals accountable for their unlawful actions!
Nevertheless, my questions still has not been answer!
I’ll turn myself over the day Bush is held accountable for his war crimes!
Welp of course they were. They’re based on the speculative and vague scenario you presented.
But they were also, free, and you get what you pay for. I imagine you’ll have to pay for a tailor-made, perfect-for-your-situation, personalized response. As I said in an earlier post.
What, you expected reliable, court-approved legal advice tailored to your particular situation (whatever it is) for free from a random message board (or boards, depending on how many places you’ve been asking your question.) Seriously, does this seem to you a rational and sane strategy, given your situation? Personally I think you should do a little research to find an attorney with experience with your situation, fucking pay up, and go from there.
I’m a former Ohio assistant county prosecutor and am now a muni court magistrate, and have had some dealings with passport issues over the years. I have never heard of any overseas U.S. citizen being denied a new passport due to outstanding warrants, and since you couldn’t return home and clear up those warrants without a passport, it would make sense to me for the passport to be issued. You could then return home ASAP, contact the court(s) and surrender yourself or otherwise placate the court(s). If your alleged crimes are as you described, I agree that it’s unlikely that the state(s) at issue will want to pay for your extradition from another country.
Here’s the way I heard it: (in a formal lecture by a lawyer with expertise in citizenship issues)
There is no law that allows the government to refuse to renew a passport.
If you are a murderer, the government can execute you in the electric chair, because there is a law that says “the penalty for murder is the electric chair.”
If you are a thief, the govmerment can lock you in a jail cell, because there is a law that says “the penalty for stealing is to sit in jail”
But there are no laws that say “the penalty for doing X is to not renew your passport”.
Your passport is a sign of your citizenship. And there are (virtually) no laws in America that say “if you do X, the penalty you pay is to lose your citizenship.”
So anybody with a passport can renew it.
Of course, if you are wanted for tax fraud or murder, the clerk who renews your passport can pass your name and address to the IRS or the police.But when they come to arrest you , you will have a nice newly renewed passport in your pocket to show them as ID.
That’s odd, as I had the impression that a passport is PROPERTY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT and technically not an individual’s legal possession in the first place.
Pay up? I am not paying anymore attorney’s fees! The last lawyer I call and asked the same question told me it would be $5,000 to “do some homework”. The reason I am even in this mess is because of lawyers and their absurd $10,000-$20,000 fees over a $300 alleged property crime. Not to mention the thousands that attorneys have bilked me just to show their face in a courtroom only to motion for a continuance or to be given a continence just so they alongside the courts can perpetually plunder money out of me.
If I can get my passport back, then that would be quite a weight off my shoulders. I will not turn myself in since I had my legal and constitutional rights violated while in the initial custody of the police. I will honor the laws when the individuals enforcing the laws decide to honor and obey the laws that are in place to be observed and enforced by those in position of authority who are put there to serve and protects us as citizens. The U.S gov’t, whether state or federal, does not own me and is not going to subject to to their perpetuate debt machine with trumped-up charges in efforts to fill their coffers over an alleged crime that numerous other countries across the world would shrug off as miniscule at best.
The court system is nothing more than a racket designed to pillage people, violate their constitutional rights, and then hopefully and ultimately turn them into a commodity for to often times privately owned prison industrial complex. Supposedly, we’re innocent until proven guilty, but in reality one is guilty until the prove their innocence. I am not property, and will not bow down and succumb to a system to a system designed by zealous capitalist who all now use the system for financial exploits, as opposed to that of serving justice.
That said, the state dept. web-site makes references to the denial of a passport based on outstanding state and/or federal warrants. I know for sure that a passport will be denied for federal charges, however, it is unverified as to whether or not the re-issuance of a passport will be denied based on a low-level felony charge.
Pay up? I am not paying anymore attorney’s fees! The last lawyer I call and asked the same question told me it would be $5,000 to “do some homework”. The reason I am even in this mess is because of lawyers and their absurd $10,000-$20,000 fees over a $300 alleged property crime. Not to mention the thousands that attorneys have bilked me just to show their face in a courtroom only to motion for a continuance or to be given a continuance just so they alongside the courts can perpetually plunder money out of me.
If I can get my passport back, then that would be quite a weight off my shoulders. I will not turn myself in since I had my legal and constitutional rights violated while in the initial custody of the police. I will honor the laws when the individuals enforcing the laws decide to honor and obey the laws that are set in place to be observed and enforced by those in position of authority who are put there to serve and protects us as citizens. The U.S gov’t, whether state or federal, does not own me and is not going to subject me any further to to their perpetuate debt machine with trumped-up charges in efforts to fill their coffers over an alleged crime that numerous other countries across the world would shrug off as miniscule at best.
The court system is nothing more than a racket designed to pillage people, violate their constitutional rights, and then hopefully and ultimately turn them into a commodity for elements of the privately owned prison industrial complex. Supposedly, we’re innocent until proven guilty, but in reality one is guilty until they prove their innocence. I am not property, and will not bow down and succumb to a system designed by zealous capitalist who all now use the system for financial exploits, as opposed to that of serving justice.
I am sure many on this forum are law-abiding, hard-working, respectable citizens. I am sure there are those on this forums who have had troubles with the law. I am not here to judge either way. In reality, I am sure that both groups alike have had their rights violated and/or have otherwise been abused by the police/court systems at one time or another in their lives.
That said, the state dept. web-site makes references to the denial of a passport based on outstanding state and/or federal warrants. I know for sure that a passport will be denied for federal charges, however, it is unverified as to whether or not the re-issuance of a passport will be denied based on a low-level felony charge.
I imagine you’ll have to pay for a tailor-made, perfect-for-your-situation, personalized response. As I said in an earlier post.