Facing "financial ruin", and an £88,000 bill for costs, he packed his passport and a knife before travelling to Northampton with the family's address written on a piece of paper.
Still, after waiting until today, the final days before the government's Friday deadline, Sameh packed his passport and visa and joined hundreds of other Muslims who poured into immigration offices across the country this week to be fingerprinted, photographed and interviewed by officials hunting for terrorists.
"We packed our passports, our business laptops and a few change of clothes," Mr. Garduno, 34, said.
Just don't forget to pack your passport: a new rule requires United States citizens to present passports when traveling by air to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and most islands in the Caribbean.
If you're jetting off to Mexico or the Caribbean, you'll need to pack a passport along with that bathing suit.
In practice, nobody is going to be able to neatly pack their passport and customs declarations cards in order to flee discrimination or state persecution in a "regular" way.
Beverley Reinemann is a writer based in London where she balances her love of travel with running her blog, Pack Your Passport, her freelance social media consulting business and her job in online marketing.
Then there had been the fact that God had forgotten to pack his passport in the Ark that was the time machine.
Durst left his Houston condo with five suitcases, making sure to pack his passport, birth certificate and a false Texas identification card featuring his photo and an alias, Everette Ward.
Pack your passport in the same pocket of your suitcase or your carry-on and put it back there every time after you use it so you don't lose it.
