student visas are expediated

[belinda63 3,047]

I just visited the DOS website and read the latest news brief.

http://travel.state.gov/law/legal/testimon...imony_3950.html

It was all about the concerns of universities and how they are losing money because their foreign students can't get visas in a timely manner. They were assured that the student visas are expediated if needed so the student can get here in time to start the semester.

So explain this.

Supposedly the 9/11 hijackers, or at least some, came here on student visas. Yet they are still expediating them?

All we know about someone getting a student or work visa is what they put on the application. But the husbands/wives finances, family members who have to wait years, well we know them personally and have known them for quite a while. So which is more likely to be a terrorist?

Just because they are coming here temporarily they get less intensive checks but I don't get what the difference is.

Did anyone read about the 600 or so temporary immigrant workers in Alabama I think it was, that just disappeared overnite? Who is to say they are not a terrorist group? And they got their visas a lot easier than our SOs.

Getting in the country whether immigrant or non-immigrant is still getting in the country.

Sorry it just burns me up that money talks and students and workers are being expediated while our SOs are at the end of the list

Edited February 12, 2008 by belinda63

[Nagishkaw 510]

It's a disease, it is.

[PetraPerson101 0]

*COUGH*

Neocons sux. I hate em about, 80% as much as I hate Hillary. And I'm a conservative too.

*COUGH*

Edited February 12, 2008 by KyanWan

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

bleh.

[sarahaziz 0]

a percentage of international marriages don't work out so i can see why they are expediting for students who are furthering education instead of marriage visas. It makes sense if you think about it.