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Originally Posted by 2000ARMY
No worries man ..... I did not want to seem unsympathetic to your situation. I though they passed something on Sept 3rd allowing Family to go to Cuba?
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Originally Posted by T.G
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Ahhhh.........
Not all is as it appears.
Sure they lifted that.
Actually, what they lifted was the once every three years ban.
HOWEVER, a very real fear my parents have and the wife and I share with them is that we HAVE to go with
Cuban Passports, in spite of being US citizens. We have to pay the Cuban government $400 each for our passports and the second we leave here, we are no longer American citizens in the eyes of the Cuban government. In fact, the US government makes that very clear to us. That means if they decide we are not coming back, the US government will not be sending anyone to get me. I am stuck there. My dad was forced to sign a document when he left, that if he ever returned, he would be immediately imprisoned. I share the same name as he does.
Tough to risk giving up everything I worked for my whole life. Many Cubans do it all the time. In fact, as tough as it is to risk, I am frankly considering it for next year. That is how badly I now long to return. I would prefer that I could go as any American, with a US Passport and the only way that will happen is with a lift of the travel ban for non Cuban Americans.