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US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality

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Post by efitz »

jeffbee wrote: post #14
eterpstra wrote: post #7

Can anyone explain a rational political motivation behind this? I realize "less immigrants" is the hand-wavy explanation, but how does this benefit those in charge?

It aligns with their effort to ruin the economic situation of American universities.

Please refer me to the part of the Constitution that enumerates the responsibility of the US government to preserve the business model of the modern university system?

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Post by LadyCailin »

digitaltrees wrote: post #12

So a Canadian that wants to visit on a tourist visa has to apply at an embassy?????!!!! Instead of on the airplane right before landing? Insane. This is going to destroy the tourism industry and collapse business travel.

Canadians do not need a visa to enter the US. And many countries are covered under the Visa Waiver Program, such as many European countries. So no, this does not affect Canadians.

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Post by jmclnx »

digitaltrees wrote: post #12

So a Canadian that wants to visit on a tourist visa has to apply at an embassy?????!!!! Instead of on the airplane right before landing? Insane. This is going to destroy the tourism industry and collapse business travel.

Do Canadians need to get Visas to visit the US ?

Last time I went to Canada all I needed was a Passport. I do not even remember showing it to the Custom Official. I drove up said hi and they let me through.

As far as I know it was/is the same for Canadians visiting the US. Except the US border people tended to be d**ks, even to US Citizens.

Did that change?

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Post by IncRnd »

digitaltrees wrote: post #12

So a Canadian that wants to visit on a tourist visa has to apply at an embassy?????!!!! Instead of on the airplane right before landing? Insane. This is going to destroy the tourism industry and collapse business travel.

Canadians don't need a visa to visit the United States for tourism or temporary business travel purposes.

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Post by mk12 »

digitaltrees wrote: post #12

So a Canadian that wants to visit on a tourist visa has to apply at an embassy?????!!!! Instead of on the airplane right before landing? Insane. This is going to destroy the tourism industry and collapse business travel.

Canadians don’t need a visa to visit the US, they are visa-exempt.

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Post by tupac_speedrap »

jeffbee wrote: post #14
eterpstra wrote: post #7

Can anyone explain a rational political motivation behind this? I realize "less immigrants" is the hand-wavy explanation, but how does this benefit those in charge?

It aligns with their effort to ruin the economic situation of American universities.

Yes, what America needs now is more students working in the grey economy after their student visa expires.

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Post by neitherboosh »

linotype wrote: post #4

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Hm, this comment makes me realize that there isn’t really a social consensus on whether or not AI generated content is welcome in these kinds of discussions. On one hand, I’m generally annoyed any time I see unsolicited AI generations because it’s usually garbage and I could have just asked an AI myself. But in this case I probably wasn’t going to and this comment is genuinely insightful…

I guess I would have preferred some kind of qualifier at the beginning saying it’s not written by a human

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