US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality
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Re: US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality
#102Re: US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment adds way less value than the one I generated, reviewed and posted. I refuse to be bullied by people that are anti-AI.
Your comment added nothing, because anyone can get ChatGPT to generate that exact comment.
It was convenience so dozens or hundreds of people didn’t have to. Seriously regret trying to be helpful here.
Re: US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality
#104Re: US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality
#105TNs: https://ogletree.com/insights-resources/blog-posts/uscis-iss...
I think so but it doesn’t really matter. It’s far faster to apply at the border anyway.
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#106This was already the case for almost every other country. Most embassies required you to be resident or a national of the country you are applying in. So oddly, the US was far more permissive than other locales in this one aspect. All this change does is bring it in line with security practices that other nations already had in place. Honestly am quite surprised that the US didn’t already have this restriction consid…
Many countries do things radically different than America does in terms of immigration, but it is quite clear over the past 20 years that one major political party in America favors more open immigration than the other. Where it seems most Americans prefer something right in the middle. Legal, but flexible.
Europes permissive immigration policies (basically anarchy from my perspective in the UK) are creating an entirely avoidable crisis. I expect a far more closed border policy in the future. International travel will become more complicated as western countries will increasingly try to control who is allowed in. Trumps administration is just 2 to 5 years ahead of everyone else.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 preferr…
Can you point out what part of the summary is wrong? You’re welcome to write your own summary that’s as detailed as the one I posted with any necessary corrections and I’ll delete my post.
I actually don’t think the summary is bad and I do think the comment is helpful and am glad to have read it; I just would have preferred to know it was AI before I started reading.
Re: US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality
#108This is a significant problem for Chinese H1B holders, because the visa sticker for Chinese passport is only valid for one year. You can stay for longer, but cannot come back if you leave the U.S. Historically folks have been getting their visa renewed in Canada or Mexico, and this is already a huge annoyance - not only do you have to make a pointless trip, but also appointments in these countries are very hard to get as a Third Country National (TCN).
Sure, most other countries don't allow TCNs to apply for visa, but they also don't require their long term residents to leave the country to renew their visa.
So, the correct solution to this is Domestic Visa Renewal. A pilot program was run last year, but it was limited to Indian H1B holders. Without this program in place, disallowing TCNs is simply cruel.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Unless you are arguing that government actions should not be criticized unless they are in violation of the Constitution, your comment makes no sense in the context of any comment that is an ancestor of it in the comment tree.
Did you response to the wrong comment or get a little mixed up about the shape of the comments tree or what?
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Good to get some real-world data in this thread as opposed to the emotional condemnations of this rule change.
People make two big assumptions about immigration in my experience 1) They think the system should be extremely simple 2) They assume everyone involved is being honest When the reality is 1) Many people involved are lying to claim immigration benefits they have no right to 2) The system needs to have a level of complexity and difficulty to prevent these people from accessing these benefits
I don't doubt you Stevie, but I wonder if you could share any sources, proofs of data regarding your remark #1 about people lying.
I believe it is happens and I assume there might be a number of drivers for it, but I wonder how big of a problem is it in reality and how much has it been abused.
For example, friends told me the scheme in the UK might be too prone for fraud on the other hand most of the anti immigration topics do not seem to ask it to be fixed but rather stopped. What is your opinion on that? Do you think immigration is a big source of corruption problem? And how big is it relative to other problems?
My question comes from a point that I question if this is a populist/nationalist act to create a common enemy, literally the Enemy from 1984, rather than actually addressing the root cause of the problems. I am referring to the UK mostly because I have many friends living and working in the UK and some are British and some others are not.
And it seems weird to me that tackling such issues ( eg of the asylum seekers and the illegal immigration) as root causes of the current economic situation. Is it going after those folks really make a change on the prospects of the economy or is it addressing emotional needs to feel that someone is in control and that someone will take care of you because they fight the "enemy"?
For example, one of my British folks pointed out, and I did not validate myself, that the cost per asylum seeker is of £40 a week and there about 110.000 people in that situation which would make an expenditure of 4M per week or 200M per year. Which seems quite a large amount of money to deal with humanitarian assistance. And it would represent about 10% of the total expenditure. Another friend pointes out that UK collects £2.7B in taxes considering Health care, skilled and senior staff workers. The deficit in the public accountants are rather debatable so I do not have an opinion. What do you make from it?