When will we be able to go to Cuba again?

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Tropicales

Hi nena,

If you wanted to go to Cuba legally then you would need to obtain a travel licence through the OFAC, as Beardo mentioned. However, you'd have to fall under certain categories to qualify.

And if you plan on studying in Cuba, then you DO qualify. It would be licence for travel as a student/for education purposes.

By doing this, you'd be able to most likely be there longer than for a 'vacation stay'.

If you wish though to go via a 3rd country, here is the info you'll need:
http://www.cuba-junky.com/cuba/vamos_UStravelinfo.htm

When unlicensed travelers go to Cuba from the US they normally have to go through a third country. You will frequently see this referred to as the "Gateway" on various boards. The most common gateways to Cuba for unlicensed US travellers are Toronto, Montreal, Nassau (Bahamas), Cancun and Mexico City, and less frequently used Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) and Montego Bay. In most opinions, Mexico and in particular Cancun are the gateways that offer the least risk of detection because:

** Unlike Canada and the Bahamas, a traveller leaving from Mexico does not pre-clear US Customs and Immigration. You will not clear Customs/Immigration until you arrive back in the US. In Canada and the Bahamas you will go through US Customs and Immigration at the airport in Toronto, Montreal or Nassau.

** Cancun is the most popular destination for US tourists in the Caribbean. There is absolutely no reason why US Customs/Immigration would suspect you have been anywhere else but Cancun.

** You can enter Mexico and re-enter the US using only a certified copy of your birth certificate and a government issued photo id, such as a driver's license (BC/DL) In other words you do not have to show US Immigration your passport upon re-entry to the US. Probably half or more of US tourists who travel to Cancun use this alternate form of identification as their travel documents.

You should take the following steps in travelling back/forth:

Enter Mexico from the US using your BC/DL
Mexico does not stamp passports on exit, although you will need a passport to enter Cuba.
Cuban Immigration does not stamp the passport at the present time, so do not worry about a Cuban stamp.
When you arrive back in Mexico from Cuba you will probably have to present your passport. The entry stamp that is placed there should be the only stamp you receive on your trip. Some people recommend presenting the passport with a $10 bill inside to avoid the Mexican entry stamp. If you use the BC/DL to re-enter the US this step is unnecessary.

After you arrive in Mexico make sure you strip all HAV luggage tags from you checked baggage.
Throw away your Cuban tickets, boarding passes and any other paper evidence of your Cuban trip.
Do not list Cuba as a Country visited on the Customs Declaration form.
Do not bring back any high profile Cuban souveniers like cigars, rum, t-shirts.
Use your BC/DL when you clear Immigration in your arrival city.

The fine by the way if you are unfortunate or careless enough to get caught can be negotiated down to $1000 or less.

I wish you lot would give up
Why can you not agree to disagree
Regarding Jackson i have found no evidence of him living in Cuba, but then he did assassinate a critic of Cuba and was ordered and paid by Joseph Stalin.

Why i have logged on to this question is because i need Nadie to email me if you please.

Regarding the question who knows what Obama will do i think he has enough enemies of America now he is making enemies of his allies, The UK, as if we will stand to his threats.
If you don't know by now why you can not go to Cuba then i guess you never will

Dear Nadie
yes i have read that and it is here say as far as i am concerned i would need more proof than that, sorry my professional background coming into play

nadie

Perhaps when big bad old fidel and the little brudder join their ancestors and things get better

The reason why you can't come to Cuba ? As far as I know, yanks have been coming for a long time

The guy that murdered Trotsky lived in Cuba many years. Same Angela Davis and some others

Oh, the descendants of Batista henchmen. My, my ,my, that is what big bad old fidel calls us. You are so not original

Besides, as far as I have seen, your statements are not exactly close to the truth. They are rather based on comunist propaganda

Dear MC, please click in Wikipedia, the free enciclopedia, section release and honors and you will find it

By the way, his name was ramon mercader del rio. He gave the name of jacques monard, but it was a false identity

Der Schreckliche

You can go whenever you wish. Lucky you, who can travel without restrictions. We are not so lucky while we are within Cuba

The truth ? And what is the truth ?

Victor

Perhaps when we can come here freely

I have no idea about the second question, but I can tell you that we are not allowed to come here freely because cuba is a comunist regime that controls everything its citizens do and say

the big

Hopefully very soon. fidel must leave this world at some moment

Well, you can go. fidel does not object to visitors

Oh, bubbles, if you tell the truth, you would have my full support, but I am not very sure that you would

physician

You must wait and see, like us.

Nobody says you can't go. yanks go to Cuba every day

Oh, baby, if you tell the truth, eh. Allow me to say that in your own very statement you say something that doesn't fit with the truth

Batista and his henchmen died a long time ago, and their descendants too. We Cubans, in and out of Cuba, never mention those guys. They belong to the remote past

Today we have our hands full with fidel and HIS henchmen. No reason for any of us to think about Batista, etc, etc, etc

Maybe you fell asleep, like Rip van Winkle and woke up recently

You claim to be english. Well, Richard lionhearted is no longer ruling England. You need an update

Beardo

There are various legal means by which US residents can travel to Cuba - basically getting a licence to do so from OFAC. It may well be that Obama will increase the scope of those, allowing more people to travel.

If I tell you the truth, I'll just get lots of thumbs-down from the descendants of Batista's henchmen.

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