What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? CA
I'm a US citizen. I recently went on a trip and returned to the US. On the way in, I had to fill in form 6059B, which asks which countries you have visited.
I listed most of the countries that I entered, but I forgot one. There is one additional country that I passed through for a period of about 4 hours. I slept on a plane the "night" before filling the form, as well as the night before that. I was exhausted and simply forgot.
I'm not a drug dealer, I'm not carrying thousands of dollars in my shoe. I'm a businessman with nothing to hide aside from occasional absentmindedness.
Do I need to worry that some computer/bureaucrat will pull my name up and mess with my life over this form? What are my risks?
On the one hand, I'm probably overworrying (as I tend to do, see username), on the other hand, I just read about an otherwise nice young man who got 30 months in jail for pointing a laser pointer (yes, one of those things that you make presentations with.) We are the country with the world's largest percentage of it's population in jail, after all.
Do I need to get a lawyer to go to the government and apologize profusely? Or just leave it alone.
I'm a US citizen. I recently went on a trip and returned to the US. On the way in, I had to fill in form 6059B, which asks which countries you have visited.
I listed most of the countries that I entered, but I forgot one. There is one additional country that I passed through for a period of about 4 hours. I slept on a plane the "night" before filling the form, as well as the night before that. I was exhausted and simply forgot.
I'm not a drug dealer, I'm not carrying thousands of dollars in my shoe. I'm a businessman with nothing to hide aside from occasional absentmindedness.
Do I need to worry that some computer/bureaucrat will pull my name up and mess with my life over this form? What are my risks?
On the one hand, I'm probably overworrying (as I tend to do, see username), on the other hand, I just read about an otherwise nice young man who got 30 months in jail for pointing a laser pointer (yes, one of those things that you make presentations with.) We are the country with the world's largest percentage of it's population in jail, after all.
Do I need to get a lawyer to go to the government and apologize profusely? Or just leave it alone.