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Goeid Newbie

Goeid   0

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My issue is the following..

My dad took me to the US when i was about 13 years old and he decided that i would stay with him while he would try to get a new visa so we could stay in the US legally but that never happened so we ended up becoming illegal.. and so i stayed there around 5 years and then turned 18 and couldn't go to college or do anything so i decided to go back to my country (Venezuela) so i could start college. when i left the US i didn't notice immigration stamp anything on my passport.. some woman just checked it and that was it. i didn't fly back to Venezuela but to Colombia and then i went back to Venezuela. that was 5 years after i had enter the US.

Now 2 years after i left the US i'm applying for a new tourist visa. I'd like to know if this is a waste or if there's something to do so i don't waste my money and time going to the appointment. Is there something else i should know or do?(besides what i need for the appointment) or any advice so i don't get a visa denial for sure? what should i do with the forms i have to fill up when they ask when if ive been in the US before and how long have i stayed? what should i write or say? is there a problem that i left the US when i was 18 and not younger? or it doesn't matter because i was 21? i will be 21 when going to the appointment, does that affect the results or not?

Thanks in advance for reading, i'd appreciate your help!

Boiler Grand Master

Boiler   46,059

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You just answer the questions, they are not that complicated.

I would have thought your chances were very low, if you left before you were 18 1/2 at least you do not have a ban, that seems as positive as it gets.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

Goeid Newbie

Goeid   0

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You just answer the questions, they are not that complicated.

I would have thought your chances were very low, if you left before you were 18 1/2 at least you do not have a ban, that seems as positive as it gets.

Sweet! that sounds very hopeful.

Let me correct one thing i mistyped.. I was not 21 when i left the US but 18 and turning 19 in like 5 months, so the correct question would be: "does it matter or that i wasn't 21 or thats just irrelevant?"

What about when filling out the form for the tourist visa? what should i say when asked when was the last time i went to the US and how long i stayed? or when did i leave? what dates should i put or what would be the smartest thing to say/write if anything. . ?

Thanks for your response!

Brother Hesekiel Mentor

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Since even the USA recognizes that minors do not have a choice when their parents move and take them along, they do not start collecting illegal presence until their 18-1/2th birthday. If you left before that, you should not encounter any problems, theoretically.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

ComboFries Newbie

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hi everyone,

i wanna ask something

i have a situation here that i am an egyptian pharmacist and i intend to take an exam in the US to get my qualifications assessed and practice pharmacy in the US to eventually migrate

but the exam cant be taken anywhere in the world but inside the US so i need to go in take the exam and come out after two or three weeks at most

so is the visitor tourist visa is the best way

and what are my chances

i am currently working in Saudi arabia in the gulf area

and d i have to pay fees for the exam prior to its scheduled date and i already paid it

plz advise

Boiler Grand Master

Boiler   46,059

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You asked before, you were answered before.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

ComboFries Newbie

ComboFries   0

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hi everyone,

i wanna ask something

i have a situation here that i am an egyptian pharmacist and i intend to take an exam in the US to get my qualifications assessed and practice pharmacy in the US to eventually migrate

but the exam cant be taken anywhere in the world but inside the US so i need to go in take the exam and come out after two or three weeks at most

so is the visitor tourist visa is the best way

and what are my chances

i am currently working in Saudi arabia in the gulf area

and d i have to pay fees for the exam prior to its scheduled date and i already paid it

plz advise

 
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