Originally Posted by
Often1
To answer the underlying question, the dumbest thing you can do is to make a false statement to the US government. Take a look at 18 USC Section 1001. It's a felony.
Not to travel to Cuba, but to answer the Bahamas if you are asked the countries to which you traveled and you don't include Cuba if you traveled to Cuba.
Will you be prosecuted? Not likely. But, you will likely wind up in secondary for the next few years because you have demonstrated that you are dishonest in answering simple questions.
Exactly. And an 18 U.S. Code § 1001 violation may not get you the potential "up to eight years in a Federal Prison", but if you hold or aspire to GE, LEXUS, NEXUS, PreChevk, kiss that goodbye. In addition to secondaries and third degrees upon reentering the USA.
Fill out your form 6059B with "Cuba", you're most likely to get nothing more than a bemused look from an agent. Fail to fill out, or fail to stare if asked, you've "knowingly and willfully... falsified, concealed or covered up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact" and possibly get in some 💩.