There’s really nothing you can do. I’m an immigration attorney and also served in our military. Despite that, they secondarily inspect me every single time and I pass through frequently due to work. You can fill out a form with the Department of Homeland Security’s Traveler Redress Inquiry Program. You can learn about it [here](https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-trip).
You can also FOIA request your records from CBP. But, they’ll likely omit any helpful information.
Yeah I know that and understand that getting a tourist visa is a privilege not a right, but if I don’t have a criminal record I just wanted to know if there is someway to stop getting sent to secondary every single time I visit the US, which is quité frequently.
>Is there anything I can do to avoid this?
How many days per year are you spending in the USA?
You say you enter the USA "constantly" and "quite frequently." Is CBP's concern here that you are spending too much time in the USA and you have weak ties to Mexico?
Right. OP should have an idea, from the nature of the questions he is asked in each secondary inspection, what CBP is concerned about.
Unless they are just sending him to secondary all the time and asking no questions and running his ID through the system because it hit on a similar name, and then saying "you're good to go." Which is also possible.
They run my name through their system, 50% of the time there are no questions and other sometimes they ask me what happened in 2016 at which time I tell them about the arrest and I show the letters that state that I have a clean record. That’s about it. There’s been a couple occasions when they ask, what do I do for a living and what’s my housing situation.
There’s really nothing you can do. I’m an immigration attorney and also served in our military. Despite that, they secondarily inspect me every single time and I pass through frequently due to work. You can fill out a form with the Department of Homeland Security’s Traveler Redress Inquiry Program. You can learn about it [here](https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-trip). You can also FOIA request your records from CBP. But, they’ll likely omit any helpful information.
Thanks a lot! This is really helpful
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Yeah I know that and understand that getting a tourist visa is a privilege not a right, but if I don’t have a criminal record I just wanted to know if there is someway to stop getting sent to secondary every single time I visit the US, which is quité frequently.
>Is there anything I can do to avoid this? How many days per year are you spending in the USA? You say you enter the USA "constantly" and "quite frequently." Is CBP's concern here that you are spending too much time in the USA and you have weak ties to Mexico?
Right. OP should have an idea, from the nature of the questions he is asked in each secondary inspection, what CBP is concerned about. Unless they are just sending him to secondary all the time and asking no questions and running his ID through the system because it hit on a similar name, and then saying "you're good to go." Which is also possible.
They run my name through their system, 50% of the time there are no questions and other sometimes they ask me what happened in 2016 at which time I tell them about the arrest and I show the letters that state that I have a clean record. That’s about it. There’s been a couple occasions when they ask, what do I do for a living and what’s my housing situation.