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> "why are you coming to the USA?" and they answered for "work". Immediate deportation despite the VISA explicitly allowing that. Reading the article it looks
by klipt 1y ago
> "why are you coming to the USA?" and they answered for "work". Immediate deportation despite the VISA explicitly allowing that.
Reading the article it looks like the problem is he said he "lives" in the US. Technically work visas are for working temporarily in the US, living permanently in the US requires a green card.
Of course they probably wouldn't have deported him for that under Biden, the current administration is just trying to find every excuse to deport to meet quotas.
- zaptheimpaler 1y agoThis is not a technical problem at all, the law is not that stupid. Non-immigrant visa means you have an intent to return to your home country at some point, it's not like you can't say "I live here" despite actually living there..
- klipt 1y agoI'm sure that's great comfort to the guy who was deported. I'm just saying that I advise all my friends on similar visas to say they're "working" in the US if asked, rather than say "living". Don't give people with power over you any excuse to ruin your life.
- zaptheimpaler 1y agoOh sure, your comment came across to me as implying that the agent had reasonable grounds to deny entry even if that reason was a technicality. I'm just saying he didn't, not one iota, not even on a technicality. It was 100% bullshit. I have had the displeasure of going through US immigration myself many times and understand the caution and deference, maybe it would have helped but it sounds like they had made up their minds.
- adgjlsfhk1 1y agoHe does live in the US, as his visa allows. Living somewhere and living somewhere permanently aren't the same thing.