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Bit of an aside story but I'm in the process of renewing a US work Visa (travel into the US for work often from Canada). I was reminded going through the onlin
by 51Cards 4y ago
Bit of an aside story but I'm in the process of renewing a US work Visa (travel into the US for work often from Canada). I was reminded going through the online form last week that there are 3 full pages of questions like: "Have you ever participated in child trafficing?", "Have you participated in terrorist activities?", "Have you participated in overthrowing a government?", etc. etc. All of the most extreme international crimes you could think of.
I later realized that they don't expect any one to answer these truthfully, however if in future you are caught doing (Edit: or having previously done) any of these things the "lied on Visa application" is grounds for an instant revocation of the Visa without all the other possible complications.
- freedomben 4y agoYep that's a favorite US government method. They do the same with the form you have to fill out to buy a gun.
- notch656c 4y ago4473 doesn't ask most those. Attempting to overthrow a government doesn't make a prohibited possessor.
- eldaisfish 4y agoI never understood the legal justifications for that. If i answer a visa-related question now, the context for me is the present and past. How can laws cover retroactive lies that were not lies at the time?
- 51Cards 4y agoI should have noted that their intent is to cover your past and present, so that if in future they find out that in your youth you trafficed/postituted humans and farmed drugs to fund over throwing a goverment through terrorist activities.... even if all of those were outside the US jursidiction, they can still yank your Visa for having lied.
- philwelch 4y ago> "Have you participated in overthrowing a government?" This must be an awkward question for Iraq War veterans.
- stephen_g 4y agoComing from Australia, you have to answer a small selection of those questions (including those ones) on the visa waiver application just to travel to the US for a holiday or business trip.