Matt

I will appreciate a lot if you could kindly advice me on which
country's passport is easy to
get a visitor visa to U.S and whose citizenship is easy to apply.This
will save my career.

I am a foreign graduate student in computer science now studying in
Florida. I will graduate soon.
But because of the terrible job market in IT, I can not find any job
here. And according to
immigration law, I have to leave U.S if I can not find a job.

My home country is P.R.China, which is considered a country with
strong immigration potential. In other
words, once I leave U.S, it is very hard that I can get a visitor visa
and return.I am really
tired of that communist regime but is very unfortunate to be borne
there.

My plan is that I will leave U.S if I can not find job. But I will
return as a visitor in
2 years to seek for employment opportunity when IT job market comes
back.

I heard some countries in Latin America and south pacific's passport
holder are very easy
to get visitor visa, even exempt from entry visa. And some of the
countries "sell" their
citizenship.

I will be very grateful if you could kindly advice me on whether this
idea is feasible and
if it is, which country I should consider in terms of time,
feasibility and cost.

Sincere thanks in advance.

S B

matt wrote:
    >
    > I will appreciate a lot if you could kindly advice me on which
    > country's passport is easy to
    > get a visitor visa to U.S and whose citizenship is easy to apply.This
    > will save my career.
    >
    > I am a foreign graduate student in computer science now studying in
    > Florida. I will graduate soon.
    > But because of the terrible job market in IT, I can not find any job
    > here. And according to
    > immigration law, I have to leave U.S if I can not find a job.
    >
    > My home country is P.R.China, which is considered a country with
    > strong immigration potential. In other
    > words, once I leave U.S, it is very hard that I can get a visitor visa
    > and return.I am really
    > tired of that communist regime but is very unfortunate to be borne
    > there.
    >
    > My plan is that I will leave U.S if I can not find job. But I will
    > return as a visitor in
    > 2 years to seek for employment opportunity when IT job market comes
    > back.
    >
    > I heard some countries in Latin America and south pacific's passport
    > holder are very easy
    > to get visitor visa, even exempt from entry visa. And some of the
    > countries "sell" their
    > citizenship.
    >
    > I will be very grateful if you could kindly advice me on whether this
    > idea is feasible and
    > if it is, which country I should consider in terms of time,
    > feasibility and cost.
    >
    > Sincere thanks in advance.

US Immigration law works on country of birth, not country of current
citizenship, therefore any attempt like this will do you no good at all
in the longer term.

The countries that "sell" their citizenship are also the countries that
it's also hard to get visas to the US from.

Ingo Pakleppa

I second Stuart's advice: the countries that sell citizenship are the very
countries that are particularly difficult to get visas from, exactly
because of that fact. Just as importantly, a "bought" citizenship will
raise red flags and make it more difficult in the end.

Two countries that, to my knowledge, sell citizenship are Nauru and
Belize. Belize is in Central America (between Guatemala and Honduras) and
therefore of interest for the US because of the drug trade.

Nauru is affiliated with Australia (similar to the way Palau and the
Northern Mariana Islands are independent but affiliated with the US). It
is a tiny speck of an island near the Equator. In fact, it is the smallest
republic in the world. The island has only one airport - and it goes clear
from one end of the country to the other.

So far, the island's main industry was the sale of guano (in fact, Nauru
is one of the richest countries in the world, per capita), but their guano
supplies are nearly exhausted, and it has been in the news lately for
money laundering - also of substantial interest to the US.

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:13:44 -0700, matt wrote:

    > I will appreciate a lot if you could kindly advice me on which country's
    > passport is easy to
    > get a visitor visa to U.S and whose citizenship is easy to apply.This
    > will save my career.
    >
    > I am a foreign graduate student in computer science now studying in
    > Florida. I will graduate soon.
    > But because of the terrible job market in IT, I can not find any job
    > here. And according to
    > immigration law, I have to leave U.S if I can not find a job.
    >
    > My home country is P.R.China, which is considered a country with strong
    > immigration potential. In other words, once I leave U.S, it is very hard
    > that I can get a visitor visa and return.I am really
    > tired of that communist regime but is very unfortunate to be borne
    > there.
    >
    > My plan is that I will leave U.S if I can not find job. But I will
    > return as a visitor in
    > 2 years to seek for employment opportunity when IT job market comes
    > back.
    >
    > I heard some countries in Latin America and south pacific's passport
    > holder are very easy
    > to get visitor visa, even exempt from entry visa. And some of the
    > countries "sell" their
    > citizenship.
    >
    > I will be very grateful if you could kindly advice me on whether this
    > idea is feasible and
    > if it is, which country I should consider in terms of time, feasibility
    > and cost.
    >
    > Sincere thanks in advance.

Matt

Thanks a lot for the reminding. I love America because America's value
is equal
opportunity for everyone. But in my case, I am doomed once I was born
in that
communist regime. What a tragedy for me!. Just hope I can find way to
start my career in U.S.
Thanks again.
"Ingo Pakleppa" wrote in message news:...
    > I second Stuart's advice: the countries that sell citizenship are the very
    > countries that are particularly difficult to get visas from, exactly
    > because of that fact. Just as importantly, a "bought" citizenship will
    > raise red flags and make it more difficult in the end.
    >
    > Two countries that, to my knowledge, sell citizenship are Nauru and
    > Belize. Belize is in Central America (between Guatemala and Honduras) and
    > therefore of interest for the US because of the drug trade.
    >
    > Nauru is affiliated with Australia (similar to the way Palau and the
    > Northern Mariana Islands are independent but affiliated with the US). It
    > is a tiny speck of an island near the Equator. In fact, it is the smallest
    > republic in the world. The island has only one airport - and it goes clear
    > from one end of the country to the other.
    >
    > So far, the island's main industry was the sale of guano (in fact, Nauru
    > is one of the richest countries in the world, per capita), but their guano
    > supplies are nearly exhausted, and it has been in the news lately for
    > money laundering - also of substantial interest to the US.
    >
    > On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:13:44 -0700, matt wrote:
    >
    > > I will appreciate a lot if you could kindly advice me on which country's
    > > passport is easy to
    > > get a visitor visa to U.S and whose citizenship is easy to apply.This
    > > will save my career.
    > >
    > > I am a foreign graduate student in computer science now studying in
    > > Florida. I will graduate soon.
    > > But because of the terrible job market in IT, I can not find any job
    > > here. And according to
    > > immigration law, I have to leave U.S if I can not find a job.
    > >
    > > My home country is P.R.China, which is considered a country with strong
    > > immigration potential. In other words, once I leave U.S, it is very hard
    > > that I can get a visitor visa and return.I am really
    > > tired of that communist regime but is very unfortunate to be borne
    > > there.
    > >
    > > My plan is that I will leave U.S if I can not find job. But I will
    > > return as a visitor in
    > > 2 years to seek for employment opportunity when IT job market comes
    > > back.
    > >
    > > I heard some countries in Latin America and south pacific's passport
    > > holder are very easy
    > > to get visitor visa, even exempt from entry visa. And some of the
    > > countries "sell" their
    > > citizenship.
    > >
    > > I will be very grateful if you could kindly advice me on whether this
    > > idea is feasible and
    > > if it is, which country I should consider in terms of time, feasibility
    > > and cost.
    > >
    > > Sincere thanks in advance.

Ingo Pakleppa

I hope you will succeed. Don't despair. It is actually quite doable, and
that includes people born in China. I know quite a few who did it.

One of the benefits of US immigration law is that it is designed to not
discriminate except in very specific circumstances. So coming from China
is actually exactly as easy as coming from Germany, with one exception.
The per-country quota does discriminate against large countries - but
fortunately, it is usually not a problem for employment-based cases.

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 06:09:43 -0700, matt wrote:

    > Thanks a lot for the reminding. I love America because America's value
    > is equal
    > opportunity for everyone. But in my case, I am doomed once I was born in
    > that
    > communist regime. What a tragedy for me!. Just hope I can find way to
    > start my career in U.S.
    > Thanks again.
    > "Ingo Pakleppa" wrote in message
    > news:...
    >> I second Stuart's advice: the countries that sell citizenship are the
    >> very countries that are particularly difficult to get visas from,
    >> exactly because of that fact. Just as importantly, a "bought"
    >> citizenship will raise red flags and make it more difficult in the end.
    >>
    >> Two countries that, to my knowledge, sell citizenship are Nauru and
    >> Belize. Belize is in Central America (between Guatemala and Honduras)
    >> and therefore of interest for the US because of the drug trade.
    >>
    >> Nauru is affiliated with Australia (similar to the way Palau and the
    >> Northern Mariana Islands are independent but affiliated with the US).
    >> It is a tiny speck of an island near the Equator. In fact, it is the
    >> smallest republic in the world. The island has only one airport - and
    >> it goes clear from one end of the country to the other.
    >>
    >> So far, the island's main industry was the sale of guano (in fact,
    >> Nauru is one of the richest countries in the world, per capita), but
    >> their guano supplies are nearly exhausted, and it has been in the news
    >> lately for money laundering - also of substantial interest to the US.
    >>
    >> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:13:44 -0700, matt wrote:
    >>
    >> > I will appreciate a lot if you could kindly advice me on which
    >> > country's passport is easy to
    >> > get a visitor visa to U.S and whose citizenship is easy to apply.This
    >> > will save my career.
    >> >
    >> > I am a foreign graduate student in computer science now studying in
    >> > Florida. I will graduate soon.
    >> > But because of the terrible job market in IT, I can not find any job
    >> > here. And according to
    >> > immigration law, I have to leave U.S if I can not find a job.
    >> >
    >> > My home country is P.R.China, which is considered a country with
    >> > strong immigration potential. In other words, once I leave U.S, it is
    >> > very hard that I can get a visitor visa and return.I am really tired
    >> > of that communist regime but is very unfortunate to be borne there.
    >> >
    >> > My plan is that I will leave U.S if I can not find job. But I will
    >> > return as a visitor in
    >> > 2 years to seek for employment opportunity when IT job market comes
    >> > back.
    >> >
    >> > I heard some countries in Latin America and south pacific's passport
    >> > holder are very easy
    >> > to get visitor visa, even exempt from entry visa. And some of the
    >> > countries "sell" their
    >> > citizenship.
    >> >
    >> > I will be very grateful if you could kindly advice me on whether this
    >> > idea is feasible and
    >> > if it is, which country I should consider in terms of time,
    >> > feasibility and cost.
    >> >
    >> > Sincere thanks in advance.

Standingupinahammock

Forget Nauru for a passport-for-sale...here's an article on what some
scumbag lawyers and a convicted criminal did with a company in
Washington, DC:

Tiny Island Selling Passports
Is Big Worry for U.S. Officials

By GLENN R. SIMPSON
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

WASHINGTON -- A few days after arriving here on a secret mission in
February, Bernard Dowiyogo, president of the tiny Pacific island
republic
of Nauru, retired with a retinue of aides to Meiwah Restaurant to
feast on
Chinese dishes. The rich cuisine was a shock to the slight, diabetic
leader, who fell ill and died a week later.

Left unaccomplished was Mr. Dowiyogo's vital mission: To prevent his
impoverished land from being subjected to economic sanctions under a
new
U.S. antiterrorism law.

American officials are seething at Nauru, which during the 1990s set
up a
loosely regulated offshore-banking sector and, in U.S. eyes, allowed
itself
to become a kind of mill for selling its own passports. U.S. officials
fear
the passports could fall into the hands of terrorists and other
unsavory
characters trying to move around the globe.

Hundreds of pages of documents now in the hands of U.S. prosecutors
detail
how Nauru set up the passport-dispensing operation almost five years
ago to
raise revenue. They also show that the country had expert American
help:
The program was created and run by a Washington company formed by a
Maryland man previously convicted of fraud, with the help of two
Washington
lawyers.

The Treasury Department, acting in concert with the Justice and State
departments, has announced plans to wall off Nauru's banks from the
international financial system by forbidding U.S. banks to have any
contact
with that country. If the action goes forward in coming weeks, it will
be
the first time the U.S. government has used the full power of the 2001
Patriot Act against an alleged rogue state.

Nauru insists it already has cleaned up its act by abolishing the
passport
and banking operations. But U.S. officials aren't convinced, and in
the
post-9/11 era, such vows may not be good enough.

In a letter to Nauru last year, Secretary of State Colin Powell
condemned
"the indiscriminate sale of Nauru's passports to persons having no
genuine
allegiance, or substantial ties to your state," which "contradicts"
pledges
by Nauru to fight terrorism.

The Washington lawyers connected to the program insist it hasn't
benefited
terrorists. "There is no evidence that any terrorists, from al Qaeda
or
anywhere else, have obtained Nauru passports," attorney Philip Gagner
said.
U.S. officials haven't produced any information to the contrary in
their
dealings with Nauru.

Still, some associated with the Nauru government agree that the U.S.
is
pointing to a legitimate problem. Remy Namaduk, Nauru's finance
minister,
says there are "a whole lot of weird shenanigans going on" with the
program.

The controversy centers on an unusual concept known as "economic
citizenship," under which countries market themselves as immigration
havens
for wealthy foreigners with money to invest. In most cases, the
country
expects the investors to take up residency.

In the case of Nauru, though, many such citizens live elsewhere and
only
use the passport. Nauru is a speck of a country, about eight square
miles
of land between Australia and Hawaii. Its 12,000 or so residents have
become increasingly impoverished because the country has depleted its
once-immense deposits of phosphate, a rich fertilizer.

The island lacks both forests and arable land. Nauru's recent history
is
checkered with corruption and mismanagement. Much of its nest egg, the
Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust, was lost to con artists in the early
1990s.

In search of new income, Nauru turned to its biggest remaining asset
-- its
sovereignty -- with a banking-secrecy system for foreign companies and
the
sale of citizenship. Among the first to approach the island with a
proposal
to generate income from Nauru's sovereign status was a Maryland man
named
Paul Lee Der, who has had his own legal problems. In 1994, Mr. Der
pleaded
guilty to three fraud counts in Maryland state court for selling
securities
illegally, and he went to prison.

Mr. Der said "all of my work with the Nauru government, and the U.S.
government, has been proper and within the law." Allegations of
problems
with the passport program, he added, arise from "a larger political
scheme
in Nauru that has nothing to do with me."

Mr. Der was represented by Washington lawyer Brian W. Shaughnessy, a
veteran criminal-defense attorney who is a former chief of the fraud
division in the office of the U.S. attorney for the District of
Columbia.
Mr. Shaughnessy is a longtime partner of Mr. Gagner.

Mr. Der won his release from prison in July 1995. Records show he went
to
work at a firm called T&I, which used the same address as Mr.
Shaughnessy's
office, selling "economic citizenships" for the Pacific archipelago of
Kirabati, which is 500 miles from Nauru. In June 1997, Mr. Shaughnessy
incorporated Transpacific Development, and about a year later,
Transpacific
and Nauru signed an exclusive "confidential agreement" that set up
what the
document calls "an investment program for foreign investors to become
investors in the economy of and citizens of the Republic of Nauru and
who
will thereby receive investor passports ..."

Under the terms, Transpacific would receive at least $4,500 from each
sale.
The agreement was signed by Mr. Shaughnessy, who is identified as
president
of Transpacific. He declined to comment, but Mr. Gagner stated:
"Neither
Mr. Shaughnessy nor myself are, or ever have been, business partners
in
TPDC."

Mr. Gagner also insisted, "We are not partners in the sale of any
passports, nor has either Mr. Der or TPDC been a partner in the sale
of
passports." He said Transpacific was merely "an immigration consultant
in
China, including Hong Kong, to recruit wealthy businessmen to invest
in
Nauru." Such economic-citizenship programs are common to many
countries, he
noted, including the U.S., which has a limited one of its own.

But in a March 2002 report on money laundering and financial crimes,
the
State Department said: "Nauru sells improperly controlled economic
citizenships." It has also warned: "Not only criminals purchase
economic
citizenships. Terrorists do as well."

The Nauru program has led to the issuance of more than 1,000 passports
processed at $15,000 and up, according to a list of the transactions.
One
reason the program so disturbs U.S. officials is the case of Andriy
Simonyan, who, sales records show, bought a Nauru economic citizenship
in
Hong Kong from Transpacific on Oct. 26, 1998 for $15,025. Mr.
Simonyan, who
was born in Azerbaijan, took up residence not in Nauru but in
Hangzhou,
China. Last year, the Chinese government alleges, Mr. Simonyan
assaulted an
American citizen in Hangzhou and now is incarcerated there and
awaiting
trial.

Late last year, the Bush administration announced its first steps to
invoke
what Treasury officials call "the nuclear bomb of the Patriot Act,"
prohibiting U.S. banks from any dealings with Nauru institutions. The
passport matter wasn't specifically cited to justify the move, but was
raised by U.S. officials when Mr. Dowiyogo made his secret trip to
Washington.

On Feb. 27, as he lay dying in a Washington hospital, Mr. Dowiyogo, at
the
behest of U.S. officials, signed an executive order stating that the
offshore banking system was terminated and the economic-citizenship
program
suspended. But the U.S. isn't convinced that Nauru has cleaned up its
act,
so the move toward sanctions continues.

And now the passport controversy has become a political issue inside
Nauru.
Mr. Namaduk, the finance minister, is locked in a bitter campaign to
succeed Mr. Dowiyogo and leads a faction that sides with the U.S. and
has
turned over information to the U.S. government, officials say.







"Ingo Pakleppa" wrote in message news:...
    > I hope you will succeed. Don't despair. It is actually quite doable, and
    > that includes people born in China. I know quite a few who did it.
    >
    > One of the benefits of US immigration law is that it is designed to not
    > discriminate except in very specific circumstances. So coming from China
    > is actually exactly as easy as coming from Germany, with one exception.
    > The per-country quota does discriminate against large countries - but
    > fortunately, it is usually not a problem for employment-based cases.
    >
    > On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 06:09:43 -0700, matt wrote:
    >
    > > Thanks a lot for the reminding. I love America because America's value
    > > is equal
    > > opportunity for everyone. But in my case, I am doomed once I was born in
    > > that
    > > communist regime. What a tragedy for me!. Just hope I can find way to
    > > start my career in U.S.
    > > Thanks again.
    > > "Ingo Pakleppa" wrote in message
    > > news:...
    > >> I second Stuart's advice: the countries that sell citizenship are the
    > >> very countries that are particularly difficult to get visas from,
    > >> exactly because of that fact. Just as importantly, a "bought"
    > >> citizenship will raise red flags and make it more difficult in the end.
    > >>
    > >> Two countries that, to my knowledge, sell citizenship are Nauru and
    > >> Belize. Belize is in Central America (between Guatemala and Honduras)
    > >> and therefore of interest for the US because of the drug trade.
    > >>
    > >> Nauru is affiliated with Australia (similar to the way Palau and the
    > >> Northern Mariana Islands are independent but affiliated with the US).
    > >> It is a tiny speck of an island near the Equator. In fact, it is the
    > >> smallest republic in the world. The island has only one airport - and
    > >> it goes clear from one end of the country to the other.
    > >>
    > >> So far, the island's main industry was the sale of guano (in fact,
    > >> Nauru is one of the richest countries in the world, per capita), but
    > >> their guano supplies are nearly exhausted, and it has been in the news
    > >> lately for money laundering - also of substantial interest to the US.
    > >>
    > >> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:13:44 -0700, matt wrote:
    > >>
    > >> > I will appreciate a lot if you could kindly advice me on which
    > >> > country's passport is easy to
    > >> > get a visitor visa to U.S and whose citizenship is easy to apply.This
    > >> > will save my career.
    > >> >
    > >> > I am a foreign graduate student in computer science now studying in
    > >> > Florida. I will graduate soon.
    > >> > But because of the terrible job market in IT, I can not find any job
    > >> > here. And according to
    > >> > immigration law, I have to leave U.S if I can not find a job.
    > >> >
    > >> > My home country is P.R.China, which is considered a country with
    > >> > strong immigration potential. In other words, once I leave U.S, it is
    > >> > very hard that I can get a visitor visa and return.I am really tired
    > >> > of that communist regime but is very unfortunate to be borne there.
    > >> >
    > >> > My plan is that I will leave U.S if I can not find job. But I will
    > >> > return as a visitor in
    > >> > 2 years to seek for employment opportunity when IT job market comes
    > >> > back.
    > >> >
    > >> > I heard some countries in Latin America and south pacific's passport
    > >> > holder are very easy
    > >> > to get visitor visa, even exempt from entry visa. And some of the
    > >> > countries "sell" their
    > >> > citizenship.
    > >> >
    > >> > I will be very grateful if you could kindly advice me on whether this
    > >> > idea is feasible and
    > >> > if it is, which country I should consider in terms of time,
    > >> > feasibility and cost.
    > >> >
    > >> > Sincere thanks in advance.