Known as Rabi'ah al-Makki during the preparations,[6] Hazmi had been so eager to participate in operations within the United States, he already had a US visa when bin Laden selected him.[2] Hazmi obtained a B-1/B-2 tourist visa on April 3, 1999, from the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, using a new passport he acquired a few weeks earlier. Hazmi's passport did have indicators of al-Qaeda association, but immigration inspectors were not trained to look for those.[7]