A Russian woman who bypassed security at JFK and stowed away on a Delta flight to Paris last week has been arrested in France for causing a disturbance on the return flight. The unidentified woman, who has been described as a Russian national with a U.S. green card was being held at Charles De Gaulle Airport since Thursday and was escorted to a Delta plane for the return flight Sunday when she allegedly kicked up a fuss. She was subsequently arrested and is now in police custody.
So all the ground security at JFK does not prevent a Russian from boarding and flying on a U.S. airliner? I assume that people on the ground will be fired for this huge laps in security?
France didn’t want her but it is suspicious that she left the US.
So either a mental or security problem, or was she callously trying to visit someone cheaply?
(BTW, I’d be wary of label for her permit to be in the US, the permanent residency card hasn’t been green for several decades - white and blue were common but today is a serious piece of ID, I’m told, not light cardboard.)
I suppose that is how you define “Green.” Maybe Teal? (Statue of Liberty green dominates with some red a white.) In any case the USCIS still describes the residence document as a “Green Card.”
There’s some confusion: She was being returned to France by order of US authorities, since France is where she had embarked illegally. Clearly she didn’t wanna go…
to ‘mayhamexpc’:
NO, how can you confuse green/teal with plain white and plain blue which I have seen each of? And newer photo ID which I have seen a credible photo of?
You missed black typewriter ink and colour of signature ink on the old style paper cards. :-o)
Yes, government people can be sloppy in their haste, for example I’ve heard them talk of ‘visa’ when the admission was legally a ‘work permit’, as citizens of the origina country do not need a ‘visa’ to enter the US.
(How she obtained permanent residency thus carried some type of official card saying so is a different matter, several legal ways exist.)
I hope you are not a pilot.
Sympathies if you are colour blind.
to ‘pkanc’:
AvWeb’s article says she boarded in the US, when airline was trying to return her to US she objected.
“A Russian woman who bypassed security at JFK and stowed away on a Delta flight to Paris last week has been arrested in France for causing a disturbance on the return flight.”
Logically France does not want her, US authorities do for bypassing security.
It makes sense to use meaningful terminology, such as ‘permanent residency’, rather than an old color for one card. (There are other cards, such as work visas.)
That’s consistent with aviation practice of clarity in communication.
She has now been sent back to the US - this time with escort by French and American agents/police.
I expect US immigration will want to know what she was up to and why (such as something abusing/scaring her in the US).
She tried to claim asylum in France, which I think would be considered abandonment of permanent residency status.
