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... it's kind of impossible for a young Arab Muslim to travel to America (This is the truth regardless what you hear in your American media) Nonsense. I person
by Towle_ 16y ago
... it's kind of impossible for a young Arab Muslim to travel to America (This is the truth regardless what you hear in your American media)
Nonsense. I personally live in an area with a large immigrant Muslim population, both from the Middle East and from Africa. (This is the truth regardless of what you hear in your Egyptian media.)
- ahmedaly 16y agoI don't want to continue commenting off-topic, but I am former Stanford student, and although that.. I could not enter America! And I am talking based on applying for U.S. visa, which is a formal information (they release the stats for visa applicants).
- Towle_ 16y agoHonestly buddy, keep your stats. I have neighbors. It's difficult for anyone who's not from a rich country to immigrate here, not just Muslims. It's difficult for Indians, Latin Americans, Africans, everyone. edit: By the way, if you didn't want all this off-topic discussion, you shouldn't have said what you did in the post. You should have asked your question with just the relevant information.
- ahmedaly 16y agoI am not talking about immigration... I am talking about entering America. All Arab Muslims who apply for U.S. visa, fill a specific forms which created for Muslim Arabs from age 18 to 45 yrs. You did not apply for a U.S. visa, so of course you have no idea about it. :)
- Towle_ 16y agoHow do you plan on starting a company here if you cannot live here permanently?
- semanticist 16y agoYou don't need to be in America or a US citizen to start a US company. The company is essentially just an entity to 'hold' the business assets so you can easily sell them to another American company.
- Towle_ 16y ago1. Get visa, go to U.S. 2. Start U.S. company 3. Find U.S. investors, notify them you won't be staying in the country for more than a few months 4. ?????? 5. Profit
- semanticist 16y agoYou don't need to go to the US to start the company. It's just a paperwork exercise so you've got a company in a convenient form to sell or raise investment later. What's staying in the US got to do with building a website? If you build a business that makes money, then it doesn't really matter where your arse is in the world. How is any of this fundamentally different to the Tim Ferris-style of running your business from a beach somewhere? If you have a web-based business your physical location only matters if you need millions of dollars to run it - and if that's the kind of business the OP is planning, then he needs to rethink his basic model and come up with something more appropriate to his situation.
- ahoyhere 16y agoIf you are building a company that can only survive with capital funding, the funders will care very much where your arse is. The TF model is much much smarter, but it also requires the guts to create a valuable product that you can charge for directly -- not the dream of creating a delicious startup snack to be gobbled up by Google.
- burnout1540 16y agoWhat form are you referring to? I've poked around the US Embassy Cairo site and I don't see any out of the ordinary requirements. Also, I sincerely doubt there are any forms that only have to be filled out by practitioners of a specific religion.
- arst 16y agoI imagine he's referring to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Registration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Registration program, which is pretty blatantly targeted at Muslims (based on a quick glance, the only nation on the list that's not majority Muslim is North Korea). EDIT: See ICE's website for an official source: http://www.ice.gov/pi/specialregistration/index.htm http://www.ice.gov/pi/specialregistration/index.htm and http://www.ice.gov/pi/specialregistration/archive.htm http://www.ice.gov/pi/specialregistration/archive.htm. The domestic registration procedures are on an archived page because they applied to people in the US prior to the effective date of the port-of-entry procedures.
- tokenadult 16y agoThat's an unsourced article that has been flagged as unsourced for a long time, for something that ought to be easily sourced. The fact remains that young people from Arab countries travel to the United States a lot, and some immigrate each year. P.S. A test case to try out would be to try to travel to all the countries that are said to be on that list with a United States passport that has a visa stamp in it from Israel. That can be problematic too.
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- ErrantX 16y agoI have to have two passports for this reason - one for entering Israel and one for everywhere else. A surprising number of countries get a bit steamy about having an Israel Visa stamp. Israeli border guards will also stamp a piece of paper stapled to your passport if you ask them (so it can be removed when you leave)