I was able to sign this petition since I have dual citizenship (aka dual nationality).
I am English born and hold a British Passport as well as being an Australian citizen with an Australian passport.
Sometimes I have to wonder IF this is what got my in trouble in the first place. I was detained in Atlanta Georgia in 1992. I had been travelling around Europe and back home to England. I decided to change my flight plans on the way home to meet my then boyfriend in Hawaii.
Unbeknown to me Qantas airlines had not put on my air ticket that I was to do a change over flight at Atlanta. I was the last to go through customs at Atlanta airport and a customs officer looked at my passports and said "why do you have a German passport?". I said "I do not it is a British Passport".
Then I was detained....the entire customs area was empty and I was told to stand and wait. Well I was getting ever so anxious about my connecting flight and back then smoking tailored cigarettes I was busting for a smoke. They were kinda like a life line then.
I don't take no crap never have, and also was a sweet young woman, so it sure got some attention when I lit up cigarette in customs and starting puffing away.
"YOU CAN'T SMOKE IN HERE!!!!".....came a voice....Oh well at least it got some ones attention. So I say "oh ok...."....As I take a long drag on the smoke and butt it out on the ground.
I was then taken to a room and given the Spanish inquisition by a female customs officer. She looked through all my belongings. She took photocopies of all my personal documents. She asked the same questions, inside out back to front and over again.....THREE TIMES.
** Where are you going?
** Who are you meeting in Hawaii?
** Where have you come from?
** Where do you live?
** How much money do you have?
** How much money does your boyfriend have?
** Why are you in Atlanta?
Strange.
Yes, you can imagine it was quite a harrowing experience.