Any problems coming back to USA as a tourist?
May 7th 2003, 12:46 pm
#16
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Re: Any problems coming back to USA as a tourist?
On Wed, 07 May 2003 22:15:29 +0000, Misia wrote:
> Thanx for writing
>
> In our case that was a little bit different. She got her tourist visa in
> Poland and she came here to stay for couple of months. In the meantime
> we had our son tested in Asthma and Allergy Center and the result was
> all the allergies (skin rashes and food intollerance) thats why we
> decided to keep him at home with my mum and applied for my mother's
> extension of her visa.
>
> I do realize we should have applied for a different visa like the one
> for au-pairs etc but that was not our intension.
Actually, your mother probably wouldn't have qualified for an au pair
status. Au pairs use J-1 status and have to be young people, I think
usually under 24 years old, since the purpose of the au pair program is to
give the au pair some experience with US culture that she would benefit
from for the rest of her life.
Au pairs are NOT nannies.
The only option that I see for your mother is for you to get naturalized
as soon as you can. Once you are a US citizen, you can sponsor your mother
for a Green Card.
> Things turned out different and
> we just did what we thought was right. That meant all the paperwork for
> INS etc.
>
> Now its too late to change anyhitng so I guess we just have to wait and
> see what will happen.
>
> Thanx a lot for all your replies my friends.
>
> Misia
> Seattle
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> Thanx for writing
>
> In our case that was a little bit different. She got her tourist visa in
> Poland and she came here to stay for couple of months. In the meantime
> we had our son tested in Asthma and Allergy Center and the result was
> all the allergies (skin rashes and food intollerance) thats why we
> decided to keep him at home with my mum and applied for my mother's
> extension of her visa.
>
> I do realize we should have applied for a different visa like the one
> for au-pairs etc but that was not our intension.
Actually, your mother probably wouldn't have qualified for an au pair
status. Au pairs use J-1 status and have to be young people, I think
usually under 24 years old, since the purpose of the au pair program is to
give the au pair some experience with US culture that she would benefit
from for the rest of her life.
Au pairs are NOT nannies.
The only option that I see for your mother is for you to get naturalized
as soon as you can. Once you are a US citizen, you can sponsor your mother
for a Green Card.
> Things turned out different and
> we just did what we thought was right. That meant all the paperwork for
> INS etc.
>
> Now its too late to change anyhitng so I guess we just have to wait and
> see what will happen.
>
> Thanx a lot for all your replies my friends.
>
> Misia
> Seattle
--
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May 7th 2003, 2:37 pm
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Re: Any problems coming back to USA as a tourist?
But that's not the one the OP really concerns about, is it?
It's a matter of validity of her visa, not what she's doing.
That was what I meant.
"S B" wrote in message
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> The immigration issue is that she is illegally working. Culture doesn't
> matter. What she's doing here does.
It's a matter of validity of her visa, not what she's doing.
That was what I meant.
"S B" wrote in message
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> The immigration issue is that she is illegally working. Culture doesn't
> matter. What she's doing here does.
May 7th 2003, 4:47 pm
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Re: Any problems coming back to USA as a tourist?
What she does is intricately tied to whether her status is valid.
If you work without authorization, you are no longer in status.
On Thu, 08 May 2003 02:37:13 +0000, Alf wrote:
> But that's not the one the OP really concerns about, is it?
> It's a matter of validity of her visa, not what she's doing.
> That was what I meant.
>
> "S B" wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> The immigration issue is that she is illegally working. Culture doesn't
>> matter. What she's doing here does.
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immigration links.
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Please feel free to enjoy some of my photographs at my new Web site
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If you work without authorization, you are no longer in status.
On Thu, 08 May 2003 02:37:13 +0000, Alf wrote:
> But that's not the one the OP really concerns about, is it?
> It's a matter of validity of her visa, not what she's doing.
> That was what I meant.
>
> "S B" wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> The immigration issue is that she is illegally working. Culture doesn't
>> matter. What she's doing here does.
--
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May 7th 2003, 11:48 pm
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Re: Any problems coming back to USA as a tourist?
Ingo Pakleppa wrote:
>
> What she does is intricately tied to whether her status is valid.
>
> If you work without authorization, you are no longer in status.
>
> On Thu, 08 May 2003 02:37:13 +0000, Alf wrote:
>
> > But that's not the one the OP really concerns about, is it?
> > It's a matter of validity of her visa, not what she's doing.
> > That was what I meant.
> >
> > "S B" wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> >>
> >> The immigration issue is that she is illegally working. Culture doesn't
> >> matter. What she's doing here does.
Exactly the point Ingo ... and one day spent "working" puts her out of
status not just for that day, but from that day forward until she leaves
the US, even if she goes back to being a tourist!
>
> What she does is intricately tied to whether her status is valid.
>
> If you work without authorization, you are no longer in status.
>
> On Thu, 08 May 2003 02:37:13 +0000, Alf wrote:
>
> > But that's not the one the OP really concerns about, is it?
> > It's a matter of validity of her visa, not what she's doing.
> > That was what I meant.
> >
> > "S B" wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> >>
> >> The immigration issue is that she is illegally working. Culture doesn't
> >> matter. What she's doing here does.
Exactly the point Ingo ... and one day spent "working" puts her out of
status not just for that day, but from that day forward until she leaves
the US, even if she goes back to being a tourist!
