British Porn star Craig Marks seems to be banned from the US and denied a tourist visa-What could be the reason?

In Border Security Australia they turned away an American porn star trying to enter the country. It's been years since I saw the episode but if I recall correctly they suspected, based on his previous trips, he was going to be meeting private clients as an escort while in Australia.

r1 Well Craig is known to escort in Merseyside Liverpool. Could that be something the US authorities would take a dim view of if they found out?

Because he's not a genius like moi.

Lol r3 Maybe!!But I doubt many of the other porn stars allowed into the US are either although ones like Drew Dixon and Oliver Hunt are extremely brilliant porn stars!

Another thing I noticed is that porn studio boss Michael Lucas posted a complimentary comment about Craig on social media about a week ago and then had deleted it a few days later.

I definitely feel there's a story going on in the background with Craig.

R2, judging by the border patrol shows I've seen they do sometimes google people, or check their social media. A suspected prostitute is easy to turn away, if there's any reason to suspect they might be working on their trip. That said tons of European porn stars work in the US all the time so who knows.

First world problems, kids.

r6 yes I aint viewing it as a problem more something I am curious about. What kind of criminal convictions would prevent a visa being granted?

He probably has a criminal record.

Drugs, hard drug abuse, like Amy Winehouse.

r8 The thought had crossed my mind.

He says he is double vaxxed so it won't be that.

Mexico, Spain and Brazil have let him in but clearly the USA is much stricter. A Most of the big porn stars have been to the USA so this really could hinder him.

R8 PROBABLY

Drugs, OP. That's why they denied Amy Winehouse a visa to attend the Grammys back in the day. If a Grammy-nominated, acclaimed musician can be denied for that reason, then a tweaky porn star has no chance.

r12 Do you mean a drug conviction or known drug use? If its the latter how would they find out?

r11 Is your capital letters implying certainty on the issue but with sarcasm?!!😁

His skin is in good shape and though he has low body fat, otherwise he looks pretty fresh and healthy. Not like a tweaked out hard core drug user.

He was hired by someone senior in the US Embassy, but left some faecal debris on the client's duvet, and the client's wife discovered it and divorced her husband.

The client was so upset by this he vowed to have Marks blacklisted from the escorting industry and banned from working in the US.

R13 Yes

The state department/US embassies are asking people for access to social media accounts of the people applying for US visa these days.

And he started working on EnglishLads 6-7 years ago and then disappeared for about 4-5 years and then he has been popping up all over the places in the past 6 months. Maybe he was serving times when we didn't see him around?

r16 Because of the pandemic I haven't been on the Liverpool gay scene as much so haven't been able to find out if there's any gossip on him!!

I feel sure I have seen him in the distance and he was quite a loud personality. Going to Brazil by himself looking for onlyfans collaboration until January 5th rather than spending new years eve in the UK with friends makes me think he might not have many friends? Seems a sad thing to do.

I wonder if he upset Michael Lucas hence the deleted social media post?

r18 Maybe I didn't know that especially as he claims to be 22 and born in 1999!! Thanks for the info.

Above post meant for r17

r15 Love your creativity!!

R2 - do you really think the US authorities have even heard of this guy? I never had until this thread.

Good keep the uncut gross schlongs out of the USA.

r22 They check the social media of visa applicants apparently

Craig will likely be so jealous of other British gay porn stars like Drew Dixon, Dean Young and Oliver Hunt for getting to travel to America and sample the joys of sex with some of the western world's most famous gay porn stars like Cade Maddox as well as make more money!

He can make top dollar in some European capitals. But recently there seems to be stiff (ahem) competition and lots of well known porn actors looking to turn tricks in cities with rich people - Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, Zurich, Milan. How many cities in USA really support HIGHLY paid whores?

Just yesterday, someone was (understandably) happily commenting about SurvivingTroll's absence from DL lately, hoping he'd been banned.

Well, bummer.

r27 Keep dreaming...

r26 New York. Los Angeles? Miami? Austin?

r26 I was thinking more in terms of him losing opportunities for porn work in the USA rather than escorting jobs in the USA.

Jesus, SA, none of us actually know. It's all speculation (and you talking to yourself). Obsessive much!

He's hot, but I'm pretty confident he has an intimate relationship with drugs. He likely has a lengthy criminal record related to drugs, or has worse, been caught transporting them during previous travels.

A less scandalous, but common reason: He overstayed his visa during a previous visit. It's plausible his 4-year absence from porn was due to a stint in jail, but maybe he was dating an American and stayed in the country longer than allowed.

r31 Speculation is a staple ingredient on here. No hiding that the topic is Speculation up to a large extent.

Also I have signed every post on here. So No talking to myself sorry.

R26, the European market is oversaturated. I can think of a handful of genuinely hot Europeans who technically still do porn, but have been squeezed out of the market due to an influx of cheap South American labor (they give it away practically for free).

Because SEX IS SO SCARY!!!

r32 You could well be right . The abscence news shocked me because I actually believed he was 22 . Naive of me.

R23 - what is the American obsession with foreskins about? No other western country has it

This is the kind of post that makes me hate Datalounge.

WHO CARES ABOUT THIS CLOWN?!

r37 Very true

He's been refused because he would be taking work from US performers. The US sex-workers have strict union rules against foreigners.

Craig Marks, with his clear skin, janky teeth and wide hips has the innocent face of the young Henry Fonda

I wonder what his real name is?

r40 But plenty of other brits and europeans do come to the US to work in porn? eg Dean Young is signed up to Falcon and Drew dixon films a lot in the US ditto Josh Moore.

r41 Do you believe he is 22?

Absent a waiver, he would not be eligible to enter the US if he engaged in "prostitution" in the past 10 years, even if the prostitution was legal overseas. "Prostitution" here doesn't mean occasional sex for money etc but a continuing and regular activity.

If he got knocked back by Visa, he should try applying for an American Express.

Thanks r44 Makes me wonder if his missing years was related to being in jail in connection to issues around prositution.

His Twitter from yesterday says he will be in Rio for the coming week.

As an actor he may be qualified for a temporary work visa since he is employed as an entertainer. If he’s a member of Equity he should contact them for advice.

R47 Tes I know but it's the USA he really wants to visit to work with pirn stars like Chris Damned. He also did some work for Michael Lucas in Mexico in the summer but Lucas deleted a social media post complimenting Craig the other day so something seems to be going on.

Handsome guy, beautiful cock, nice suckable foreskin.

[R12] Do you mean a drug conviction or known drug use? If its the latter how would they find out?

With Winehouse, it was known drug use. If he doesn't have any criminal activity related to drugs on his record, then they probably found out about his use via social media or Googling.

^Sorry, forgot the quote tag above.

Creepy pansexual Chris Damned.

If you look at the Instagram video story at the top of Michael Lucas profile there seems to be some likely interesting shade at Craig Marks. Michael has taken a screenshot from another porn stars account were they are posing with Craig Marks. On the original post the pornstar writes underneath the post " my mate Craig Marks "but on the Instagram story by Michael Lucas he shows the same photo playing to the song and headlined at the top ain't no friend of mine. Seems quite an odd post especially when taken into context of Lucas deleting a complimentary social media post about Craig last week. I defended suspect there is some behind the scenes drama!!

r53 Ooh please tell me more

r51 Thanks . Just goes to show you have to be so careful about what you reveal on social media. Perhaps Craig ain't the brightest?

Just to clear up a false statement upthread: Being involved with prostitution doesn't prevent someone from coming to the US on a visa. Proof: Melania Trump.

Creepy pansexual Chris Damned does trans porn (both kinds) and now does heterosexual and bisexual scenes.

He used to seem hot but now he's just icky.

Michael Lucas is a vile piece of shit. I tend to trust any version of events presented by a model who has "wronged" him, over anything that comes out of his duck lips.

This guy is withholding something that would make his exclusion obvious because he wants attention and sympathy.

He's inviting any speculation.

r58 What do you suspect?

r57 Oh To be clear I don't view Michael Lucas as the good guy here or generally. I just feel curious why he seems to be shading Craigavon and deleting a complimentary tweet about him after a few days.

They can both be rats in different ways.

Well, he was coming on a tourist visa which does not allow for employment. Maybe they were on to him or he accidentally disclosed his visit purposes. Or maybe a studio rival turned him in - you know how vicious those girls can be.

r61 Possibly yes but maybe he has upset someone becomes other brits like Drew Dixon haven't been reported by rivals. If he has been a bragger on the Liverpool gay scene it's possible someone from there reported him. Not a studio rival just someone who was annoyed by his bragging..

Please Craig, come here and replace Drew Dixon. There is something about that guy that is so repulsive. Maybe it's the bad toupee.

r63 Drews hair seems real to me?!😲

R14, that red eye makes him look healthy and well rested.

r65 Ooh well spotted! Meow!

I know what you were looking at, R66/R14.

Perhaps he is a sympathizer for the Tamil Tigers!

Drew's hair looks so real...

r69 He is a bit young to have artificial hair

I wonder how much Craig charges to appear in this tawdry gathering?

It can't solely be for pleasure, surely.

If he was arrested in the UK for cottaging then he'd be on a no-visa list in the US for six years.

Is there no update on this pressing issue?

Doesn't Michael Lucas already have his own legal issues going on like accusations of him illegally filming porn and allegedly forcibly giving his "stars" injections into their dicks to make them hard.

So many questions.

With no answers.

r74 That i did not know! I am aware he had a big fallout with josh moore

Marks may be a low life sleazeball but he has very pretty blue eyes. He's handsome. And has a soft sweat voice.

Listening to all you guys, it sounds like why SHOULD they grant him a VISA?

If Craig Marks is debating whether or not to buy Coachella tickets (see his latest Tweets), then he has no problems coming to USA on standard 90 day tourist visa just like others from west Europe. So what visa he's been denied in past is an open question.

If pulled off a plane before it left Europe, or turned back at USA airport, again on a standard 90 day tourist visa thing that would be something. It implies either immigration has something on their files about criminal or other behaviour, and or past activity has raised red flags.

Martha Stewart never made it to British soil IIRC due to her federal criminal conviction when she tried to enter in 2008. By 2017 things must have eased because MS and her family did visit UK.

Airlines send passenger manifests (once by fax IIRC, now electronically) of passengers before flight leaves gate. If American, UK, Oz or whatever governments' immigration/border control has issues with a passenger, they will send word, and offending person removed from flight. Or, things go old school. When person presents themselves to customs things don't go very well. They soon find themselves put on first thing smoking back to where they came from, after being questioned of course....

Paris Hilton (convicted felon, drug charges) was denied entry into Japan. A trip she took just days after two days after pleading guilty. Obviously some agency worked quickly because Ms. Hilton was stopped by Japanese immigration upon arrival.

As previous post stated, Craig Marks apparently has no problems entering USA on a regular tourist visa. Currently in LA for the X3 Expo Day (among other things), where Craig Marks/Chris Damned hit up Legrand Wolf who was there as well. At least latter Tweeted on CM's page..

r80 r79 that is Chris Damned not Craig Marks .There is zero about coachella on Craigs account

I recently saw some of his only fans or just for fans videos with some attractive porn stars. Marks is attractive, I'll say that. I guess the only flaw being his jacked teefs.

So, there is no tranny pussy available in the UK to for him to fuck?

Damn. Whe he talks about dating, he sounds like the typical gay man with intimacy issues and an attitude of "I wouldn't want to be a member of any club that would have me."