Originally Posted by
IAN-UK
A passenger from the middle-east, transiting Istanbul, no clue about the origin of your itinerary in the system. Sure, you'll be fine
Nearly all MEA/West Asia traffic flying to the US transit from Dubai, Doha or Istanbul so it's not really anything out of ordinary.
As I see it the most that could happen is that the immigration dudes might ask where I came to Kuwait from...? At that point I could brandish my Jazeera boarding pass.
I wasn't aware this was such a big issue to be honest. I've been to the US many times and never had an issue.