Breeze Through Borders: Don't get stopped at customs anymore

by Mario Stinger

As a perpetual traveller, I have lived in ten countries and visited over 60. But, more importantly, I have passed more than 1,000 customs as a tourist, diplomatic ID holder, and security professional.

Every hour of every day, people are being refused entry into a country they desire to visit, live or work in. Since the COVID pandemic, working from home has become the new normal. If you can work from home, why not work from a country that offers more for your money or lifestyle? Or if the opportunities have run out in your country, why not try to luck in Canada, the United States or somewhere in Europe?

Unfortunately, for millions of people, their first minutes in a new country will shatter these plans because they don’t understand the difference between visiting a country and living there. Because they travel from the wrong country or transit to the wrong country, get turned back at the border or meet bad people on their journey. But, mostly, they don’t understand how customs, immigration and security screening work.

In this book, you will find an exhaustive list of things you need to know to safely move around the world and never get refused anywhere or even stopped at customs beyond the “welcome to our country, have a pleasant stay”.
I didn’t write this book to help people become illegal immigrants, smuggle drugs and avoid taxes; I wrote it to teach genuine expats to avoid the trouble they are too often victims of when they travel.

228 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 11, 2023

About the author

Mario Stinger is a Canadian author, whose career was in industrial counter-espionage. He has been gravitating around the United Nations for many years and currently lives abroad where he is granted diplomatic immunity. This has given him a unique perspective which has helped him ground his novels in reality, despite the book's science fiction genre.

His inspiration for Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended came from his past experiences in his careers in security and in industrial counter-espionage as well as from his travels and interactions with different cultures around the world as a diplomat under the auspices of the United Nations. Being an avid reader and fan of various science fiction genres, he specifically named Star Trek as very influential with regard to the nature of the technology and equipment that can be found in the facility. He based the story’s plot on a curiosity that he came upon when he was reading about climate change, the continuing population growth, and the wanton exploitation of finite natural resources that he has witnessed in his journeys.