Originally Posted by
Xyzzy
Such responses to the 'address' question do not work at ports of entry to the USA any more. They have not f
r a few years.
Indeed the U.S. looks for zip codes and is far more forcefully requiring street addresses even in advance of travel but also on arrival. The big US surveillance state players needs more data to have bigger haystacks in which to lose people or in and around which to chase canards.
Migration authorities in Buenos Aires aren't as petty as US authorities about addresses, but they have been asking visitors for way more info on arrival than used to be the case. Even on my visit several days ago to Argentina (just around the time authorities busted a person at a local Internet cafe for possible involvement in a terrorist attack plot in the city), I was held up by the passport control lady when she seemed to be unfamiliar with the Park Hyatt hotel and its location there.