Denied Entry/Removal Order with valid B1/2 visa
May 27th 2009, 3:09 pm
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Re: Denied Entry/Removal Order with valid B1/2 visa
That's correct. There is no set standard. It is up to each individual officer, on each individual trip, to determine whether at that particular time, you have spent too much time in the USA.
It's like in your analogy, you're going speeding along and one day one cop says welllll, you've got a clean driving record, there was no one else on the road, the weather is nice, I'll just give you a warning to be careful next time. But next time you do that, another cop says Hey, what do you think you're doing! You've done this before, it's rush hour traffic, and it's drizzling rain! Here's your ticket!
Same "crime" of going too fast, but different cops on different days with different circumstances.
Rene
It's like in your analogy, you're going speeding along and one day one cop says welllll, you've got a clean driving record, there was no one else on the road, the weather is nice, I'll just give you a warning to be careful next time. But next time you do that, another cop says Hey, what do you think you're doing! You've done this before, it's rush hour traffic, and it's drizzling rain! Here's your ticket!
Same "crime" of going too fast, but different cops on different days with different circumstances.
Rene
May 27th 2009, 3:11 pm
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Re: Denied Entry/Removal Order with valid B1/2 visa
I had seen a link somewhere on this site (thought it was in this thread actually) that mentioned something about a congressional sponsorship. Maybe it started with a "D"????????? Know this is vague, but trying to find that link again, and my searches are fruitless...any assitance?
May 27th 2009, 4:36 pm
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Re: Denied Entry/Removal Order with valid B1/2 visa
I forget exactly where you are, but what about a visa for Canada for therock? Of course it would mean keeping a 2nd home there.
May 27th 2009, 5:16 pm
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The state of Montana did exactly that. "Prudent speed" or something similar. There was no posted limit, people were expected to drive responsibly for the conditions at the time. If law enforcement saw that you were not, you got a ticket.
I forget exactly where you are, but what about a visa for Canada for therock? Of course it would mean keeping a 2nd home there.
I forget exactly where you are, but what about a visa for Canada for therock? Of course it would mean keeping a 2nd home there.
May 27th 2009, 6:21 pm
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This was an article in our local paper this weekend. I am bewildered!
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1540378.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1540378.html
May 27th 2009, 6:37 pm
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This was an article in our local paper this weekend. I am bewildered!
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1540378.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1540378.html
May 27th 2009, 7:22 pm
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May 27th 2009, 7:51 pm
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"Y-Phuat Enuol was thrown in jail by a communist regime in his home country of Vietnam. He has lived on the run in the jungle and in a primitive refugee camp in Cambodia. And for more than two years, he has been separated from his wife and seven children."
Surely you can't compare your situation with his? The world is your oyster, you two. There is a fix available for your sitauation via the country courthouse, you just don't want it. That's hardly comparable.
Keep looking until you find a solution that works, but don't deny others a chance for an actual life because .. well, I'll end there. But, perspective, please.
"People forced from their home countries by religious, political, racial or ethnic persecution are given legal refugee status by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees."
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May 27th 2009, 10:13 pm
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Re: Denied Entry/Removal Order with valid B1/2 visa
A congressman can submit a private bill on behalf of an alien, but there are only a handful each year and some years they don't pass any of them. They are almost always for people already in the US fighting removal. I've never heard of one for someone who was outside the US.
May 27th 2009, 11:18 pm
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A congressman can submit a private bill on behalf of an alien, but there are only a handful each year and some years they don't pass any of them. They are almost always for people already in the US fighting removal. I've never heard of one for someone who was outside the US.
May 27th 2009, 11:21 pm
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Well it's comparing apples to mountains.. not related at all.
"Y-Phuat Enuol was thrown in jail by a communist regime in his home country of Vietnam. He has lived on the run in the jungle and in a primitive refugee camp in Cambodia. And for more than two years, he has been separated from his wife and seven children."
Surely you can't compare your situation with his? The world is your oyster, you two. There is a fix available for your sitauation via the country courthouse, you just don't want it. That's hardly comparable.
Keep looking until you find a solution that works, but don't deny others a chance for an actual life because .. well, I'll end there. But, perspective, please.
"People forced from their home countries by religious, political, racial or ethnic persecution are given legal refugee status by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees."
"Y-Phuat Enuol was thrown in jail by a communist regime in his home country of Vietnam. He has lived on the run in the jungle and in a primitive refugee camp in Cambodia. And for more than two years, he has been separated from his wife and seven children."
Surely you can't compare your situation with his? The world is your oyster, you two. There is a fix available for your sitauation via the country courthouse, you just don't want it. That's hardly comparable.
Keep looking until you find a solution that works, but don't deny others a chance for an actual life because .. well, I'll end there. But, perspective, please.
"People forced from their home countries by religious, political, racial or ethnic persecution are given legal refugee status by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees."
May 27th 2009, 11:23 pm
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A congressman can submit a private bill on behalf of an alien, but there are only a handful each year and some years they don't pass any of them. They are almost always for people already in the US fighting removal. I've never heard of one for someone who was outside the US.
May 27th 2009, 11:29 pm
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Re: Denied Entry/Removal Order with valid B1/2 visa
Did the waiver option turn out to be a complete dead end for a non-immigrant visa? Even if he gets a B visa again, he can't live here on it (what he was doing before); you face the same issues as before.
If he wants PR status (said he didn't) then the routes for that are the same as they were before, and there is a waiver certainly for an immigrant visa.
I'm not sure what battle you're fighting here anymore...
If he wants PR status (said he didn't) then the routes for that are the same as they were before, and there is a waiver certainly for an immigrant visa.
I'm not sure what battle you're fighting here anymore...