Can I fly over US airspace with an application withdrawal?

[SCR471 1]

Can I fly over US airspace if I have an "application for admission withdrawn" stamp in my passport? I have to fly over US airspace in order to get to Canada where I have a job. My flight isn't stopping in the US but flying over their airspace. Will I have any problems? I'm worried because I've recently read about people with criminal records who are not allowed to board airlines that fly over the US, even if they don't land in the US.

[annjadora 2]

• I would call homeland security and ask them, this is because if there's an

emergency and the plane have to land in the US, u can be arrested, what

is the chances nil, but one never foresee.

[ShirahBet 42]

That rule, I was reading about last night, really was focused on those with criminal backgrounds. So if that's your case, then yes, you could be denied boarding rights on the flight. However, the rule didn't indicate anything about people that simply had the application withdrawn stamp on their passports, as there are many reasons why someone would have that stamp.

Edited March 12, 2014 by ShirahBet

[SCR471 1]

I don't have a criminal record. I've been denied entry to the US once because those yahoos thought that I was going there to look for work (when I wasn't). You can read the details in one of my previous posts (I haven't posted very many threads). I have a clean criminal record for all countries that I've ever lived in. I'm afraid that the whole "application for admission withdrawn" fiasco might mean that I can't fly over US airspace. I'll call Homeland Security just to make absolutely sure. But I'm even afraid that calling them would get me put on the no-fly list for some very arbitrary reason. I've read a lot of 'propaganda' about how draconian the US is becoming and after the whole refusal of admission incident, I'm more inclined to believe that there's some truth to this propaganda.

[annjadora 2]

Know a Canadian denied entry for overstay, ended up on an emergency

landing flight in Miami traveling from an island, he was held in a holdover

like a criminal and put on the 1st thing out, very embarrassing

[SCR471 1]

Know a Canadian denied entry for overstay, ended up on an emergency

landing flight in Miami traveling from an island, he was held in a holdover

like a criminal and put on the 1st thing out, very embarrassing

How long ago was this? He was allowed to board the plane though even though it was passing through US airspace right?