Originally Posted by
dhuey
The applicable question reads: "Countries visited on this trip prior to U.S. arrival". It does not ask you to state all of the countries you visited, nor does it ask you to affirm that no counties you visited are omitted.
But that seems a very lawerly parsing of the question. We all know they are asking for every country one visited on their trip. Come on.
Isn't the whole point here that thousands of Americans travel to Cuba through third countries every year and get by with it? They are not prosecuted. They are not even discovered. That doesn't mean that there isn't some risk. It's up to the individual traveler to decide if that risk is worth it. Apparently, thousands do. I must be the only American I know in Costa Rica who hasn't traveled to Cuba, but I want to be the first one in my circle to make a licensed trip there.