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So people who aspire to get work visas and relocate to the US should no longer be able to visit temporarily on tourist visas? That seems like a nonsensical poli

• brudgers 9y ago
  I'm not judging what should or should not be the case. My recently acquired lay understanding of a temporary visa to the US is that an applicant has the burden of proving that their intent is not immigrate. For me, the tweets do not create proof for belief that the applicant has no volition to immigrate. The tweets do not create proof for a belief that the applicant has an overwhelming volition to return. I suspect that the US State Department has more sophisticated tools for analysis than my hand scrolling through the last three weeks of the 46,000 tweets. For example, I'd not be surprised if it had tools for looking at social graphs and demographic data that correlates applicants marital status,socio-economic status, educational status, and country of origin for temporary visas with visa compliance. None of which is to take a stance on whether the process is fair or right or just or moral. The only stance I am taking is that it is the process and given that it is the process the result is understandable and that there is actionable intelligence based upon what happened.