meauxna

Well if she wants to move here, sure.
5 minutes ago you represented that she wanted to visit.
See how complicated it gets?

If she wants to move, it's either via specialty occupation employment or close family member (spouse or fiance).

fatbrit

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

riverslq

no, not move, just visit. But since the B-2 visa and ESTA are a non-starter, that doesn't leave any other option to visit with. :P

fatbrit

Study hard before acting this time.

riverslq

and I hate to be rude, but could you please refrain from constantly reading into things which do not exist?

riverslq

wth?

fatbrit

Don't just randomly choose a path to reach your perceived goals and act on it without knowing exactly what you're doing. That's where you went wrong the first time if you remember.

Noorah101

Because having a denied visa on the record now changes her answers to the ESTA questions. So she had to do a new ESTA. Anytime the answer to the ESTA questions change for you, you have to complete a new ESTA.

Rene

meauxna

Well K-1/3 or H-1B are not very good visiting options!

If we are reading things that don't exist, it's because you are not clarifying, and what you are posting reads a lot like things we have read before. Leap o' logic, that's all.
If you want to refrain from being rude, don't bash the US (in this context) please.

riverslq

I live in the US, I vote in the US, I pay taxes in the US, and I am a USC.
I can bash them all I want. I'll be a lemming when I'm dead.

meauxna

sigh.

Alright then, add "while visiting this forum". I am a USC. A voting USC. A taxpaying USC. Married to another tax paying, voting USC who was an immigrant.
I'm also the moderator, making a forum request.

riverslq

As a forum request, ok.

Noorah101

I know. It totally sucked that my Iranian boyfriend couldn't get a visitor visa to the USA (because USA won't issue visitor visas to young male Iranians). And it totally sucks that Iran is not part of the VWP program. How on earth was he going to come visit me in the USA? Answer...he couldn't. So he didn't. I went to visit him in Turkey for as many times as it took to decide on marriage, and then we did a K-1 fiance visa for him to immigrate here.

I could have been mad at the US government for not allowing my boyfriend to come visit me. But me being mad and upset wouldn't change the law.

At least your girlfriend still has the option of applying for ESTA at a later time, and hopefully getting it approved so she can visit the USA again. My boyfriend never had such an option. And in the meantime, you can visit her, or you can meet up in a 3rd country where she can visit easily, like we did, until you guys decide marriage is the way you want to go.

Rene

Lissbovavd

I´m afraid your girlfriend re-applied for the ESTA way too soon after having been denied the B2 visa in London.
I was myself denied a B2 visa at one point and waited for another year until re-applying for an ESTA, indicating the denied visa.
The request was granted, but had I applied any sooner it could easily have been a different matter altogether.

Best of luck!

ian-mstm

Respectfully, this isn't the fault of the US. It's your friend's fault for not doing some research ahead of time. She's done this to herself, and your anger is misdirected.

Ian