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mavatutah
Sep 12, 2008, 08:44 PM
Dear All:

I was an immigrant student in the US from a period of Aug 2002 - May 2004. During this period, I ran up a credit card bill of $5400 on my Citibank CC which I could not clear before I left due to financial constraints

I am now in a position to make part payments towards the card. I called Citibank with my details but they could not locate me.

I am a little scared about the fact that the matter may have been reported to a court of law and there may be a pending arrest warrant against me. Is there a possibility of the same? In which case, would I be picked up at immigration (I plan to travel to the US in the next week - for an official visit; my passport number and my visa are both new; not the same as my earlier visit)? Do such cases get a default judgement against them?

Also, I did do a run on my civil and criminal records (both state and national) using Intelius and no record showed up (meaning it came up clean). Would such a report be of any trustworthiness?

mom2gurlz
Sep 13, 2008, 03:18 AM
You are too funny. Nobody ever gets arrested for debt, not even immigrants. If that was the case do you know how many peope would be in jail?
Running up a credit card has nothing to do with immigration issues, so you need to just chill.lol