What happens if you don't register with the selective service?

[Wedesdo]

What happens if you don't register with the selective service?

How do they know if you have registered or not? and do they go after you if you don't register?

thanks

 

[perry]

You could go to jail and be fined. You may be denied student loan assistance, Federal job training, and most Federal employment.

More info

 

[Capn]

deportation to canada I believe.

 

[Sluggo]

You are taken from your home in the early hours of the morning, and secretly moved to Hope, Arkansas, where you are forced to live until your death. Its quite a bit like the Witness Protection Program.

 

[Wedesdo]

i know what they "might" do.

the question is, DO THEY ACTUALLY DO IT?

i don't need federal loans, etc...

 

[Wedesdo]

oh. nevermind. this from cnn.


<< About 1.8 million 18-year-old men register each year. The agency estimates a 91 percent compliance rate among all men who must register. >>



this mean 9%, or 170,000 men each year do not register. i don't think they have the resources to track and prosecute that many ppl.

 

[The Stigenator]

if you arent a us citizen, but planning to get your citizenship, you need to have an SSS registration.

That gets defaulted out after your 27 (aka they cant draft you after that I believe).

Even if the US goes to war, that chances that your drafted to join them is low. If you can prove that you cant be in the battle field its even better.

 

[reitz]

Why not just register? It takes all of about 5 minutes to complete the process, and then there's no worrying about what *might* happen.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

im curious as to why you would choose not to register.

 

[konichiwa]

So that he can't get drafted.