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"Wim" wrote:

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Can this happen to a US boater with a crew/passengers?
Re-entering a USA port at the "wrong time" when the alert has become orange?
A rhetorical question?

Similar thing happened to me nearly 20 years ago on my first honeymoon:
Tickets were for Mr & Mrs, but she never did change her name. Cost us a
ticket change at the time, not a completley new ticket.

I can well imagine that either the rules have tightened up, OR that the
people in the story gave the airline rep(s) an unnecessarily nasty time.
All that was required was that she travel under a name that they can
positively identify. That doesn't seem unreasonable.

Similarly, I suspect trying to enter *any* country with a name that
can't be positively identified by your ID could give problems, but I
don't think that's a real change.

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