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There is a solution to this. You can become a US citizen.
Didn't realise it was that easy. Why don't all the illegal immigrants just do that?
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#152Could you please help with any insights about the social media vetting rules? This has been a blackbox to the visa applications - started with student visas, now being forced on work visas too from Dec 15th.
Based on news, it seems like if you like Donald Trump you may get in. If you don't like him you don't. You may also be jailed for two months for not liking Trump - that's happened a few times and that's why tourism fell off a cliff.
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#153Thank you for all your questions and comments. I'll be taking take a short break.
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#154hey peter, Im on an h1b visa (year 10, have approved i140 and pending gc application). Ive never done an h1b stamping as I was paranoid about being denied. Will doing the stamping now trigger the 100k h1b fee?
No since the underlying H-1B petition was filed and approved before this $100K payment provision went into effect.
thank you!
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Can they deny you admission when you are a US citizen?
They can not. Neither US Citizens or Green Card Holders can be denied entry. Sources: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encounter... https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights/know-your-r...
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Foreign countries have no obligation to admit you within their borders. There’s many points you could make about the United States and immigration, but I don’t think this is one of them.
> Foreign countries have no obligation to admit you within their borders. That doesn't sound relevant. Nobody said that they were obliged to admit you, they complained that the reasons for declining admittance were unfair. Unless you think "no obligation to admit" means carte blanche to decline for any reason, and to treat you however they like? If so, then that is unreasonable. It is a much stronger condition than "…
Yes, "no obligation to admit" means they don't have any obligation whatsoever, and that includes doing so for any reason they see fit and not having to disclose those reasons (if any) to you.
It is exactly the same as "I don't have to let you in".
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I don't really get your point, there's high unemployment outside the US too in many places?
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> Why is the US an open economic zone
Do you know of the fable of a goose that laid a golden egg once a day?
You are proposing to kill the goose to see if you can get multiple golden eggs at once.
> country with an identity
Like it or not, the identity is 'land of opportunities' and not 'land of anglo-saxons who emigrated before ~1850'
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#158I've got friends who tell me they'd never consider applying for YC because they are on a classic H1B with a tech company. What typically happens with folks on a H1B who make it into YC?
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CBP actually made me give them my facebook password when entering on a J1 visa in 2017, so I'm surprised to hear so much talk about this. Is it more that the practice of checking social media is more widespread now?
I think the only bit that surprises me is they don't have a back door into Facebook.
Who says they don't?
And who says that asking for your password is to gain entry?
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> Foreign countries have no obligation to admit you within their borders. That doesn't sound relevant. Nobody said that they were obliged to admit you, they complained that the reasons for declining admittance were unfair. Unless you think "no obligation to admit" means carte blanche to decline for any reason, and to treat you however they like? If so, then that is unreasonable. It is a much stronger condition than "…
Yes, "no obligation to admit" means they don't have any obligation whatsoever, and that includes doing so for any reason they see fit and not having to disclose those reasons (if any) to you. It is exactly the same as "I don't have to let you in".
No, it isn't.
For example, I do not have an obligation to let people into my house. I can choose to let them in or decline them entry. But there are certain preconditions I cannot apply. I cannot, for example, say "you may come into my house only if you murder my neighbour". That's because I'm legally bound not to induce people to commit murder. It would obviously be disingenuous to say this means I have an "obligation to admit" them.
It's the same with immigration. They actually are legally bound in certain ways - an immigration official can't assault you for instance. It's not hard to imagine them being legally bound not to search people's phones. That doesn't mean "they have to admit people".