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That's really interesting. So you are saying the US is actually providing "equal treatment" but since each country's stats are grouped separately, some of them
by zaroth 10y ago
That's really interesting. So you are saying the US is actually providing "equal treatment" but since each country's stats are grouped separately, some of them fall outside the requirements and lose out on visa waiver.
Of course if you grouped the stats for all of EU it would probably bring everyone in range, but it's hard to argue that would be the right policy for the US.
- pm90 10y agoThe US has an immigration policy that uses the no. of immigrants from every country to make various decisions, such as diversity lottery, green card grants etc. Therefore, its kinda stuck with insisting on a country-by-country basis for making Immigration/Visa decisions. IANAL and all that, but it might require Congress to make changes to the immigration laws to allow the Executive to authorize visa free travel to people from those countries.
- michalskop 10y agoThe point is that the US can arbitrarily keep the number of people who are refused visa as high as it wants. And than it can argue that this number is too high for visa waiver (and I bet the US is doing it for countries like Poland)