well...it's not a "Gold Visa"
if it has a color, i'm guessing it's a Brown Visa
now every mexican "coming across the border" is gonna say, "me pablo escobar's brother, Eduardo Enrique Escobar or Mi Frito Bandito's cousin Juanito"
we always get stopped by some kinda INS border control when we come back from South Padre
if my wife is driving, they have a weird reaction to my wife's accent when they ask if we're citizens
I never phuque with 5-O, but if I ever did, I'd use my "Dora The Explorer" accent, acquired after a couple of years passively watching with my kids to reply
si senor, we are Americanos, on July 4, 1776, Americans declared their declaration of independence
then fer sure they'd know I wasn't a US citizen, cuz hardly any American knows that basic fact
but I'm sure we'd get pulled over if I did
now they can ask to see yur phone at US customs
my worst customs experience was with German customs on a train coming from Kyiv to Berlin
train stops at like 3 AM in the morning and is boarded by German customs looking for Ukrainian cigarette smugglers
they have some kinda master key to open yur locked door for a sleeping coach, whole family was sound asleep
then a loud knock, and two seconds later the door is flung open, Germans in WWII uniforms but with different hats
demanding to search our cabin
I was inwardly sweating cuz I had suitcases full of 100 dollar bills I was smuggling out of Ukraine
damn good thing my daughters started crying, that got them out fast
phewwwwww.....
a genuine "member of the tribe" is someone who has been stopped by the gestapo while smuggling contraband and smoothly made it though "the wall"
such a good feeling that is