AOS from B2? A Bad idea

[HFM181818 750]

For all of you who are waiting for your K1 visas to be approved/scheduled, you might consider contacting your representatives in Washington to END all COS or AOS from B2 visas, because the people doing this, none of whom, of course, ever had the intention of staying in the US, are causing a lot of the delays and other problems you may be experiencing getting your case approved and closed faster.

The people who change their mind are really nothing more than thinly disguised visa violaters, who have either lied to our consular folks and/or to our border officials. It is time to put a halt to this nonsense. No more changing minds and changing status from tourist visas. The collective actions of these misanthropes cause problems for others even getting tourist visas, and their requests for AOS from their ill-gotten B2s cause log jams in all visa processing at our service centers. End the log jam...end the opportunity for violating the trust of the US government...call or write your legislator today and ask him or her to get behind ending all changes of status (or minds) from B2 visas....make note...it would not cost YOU and I a single cent to have this law enacted.

[Boiler 45,482]

The process should not take more than a month if the system was run efficiently.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-decade-into-a-project-to-digitize-us-immigration-forms-just-1-is-online/2015/11/08/f63360fc-830e-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html

Put the blame where it is deserved.

[HFM181818 750]

We are constantly reading on this and other sites about the time K1s take to be completed, meanwhile, visa cheats circumvent the process by applying for B2s (often under false pretenses), tell the CBP folks they are just here to visit some 'friends', then marry their undisclosed American BF/GF, and file for AOs, chilling out in the US while others are forced to wait outside the United States...in just about every case posted here, the first hollow statement made by the alien seeking a good story or excuse for the pending AOS is,' gosh, we had no intentions of marrying and having me stay...'...sure....anyone can easily abandon their lives in minutes and take up residence in another country ....could you? Could I? No. How many Americans visit some third world cesspool of a country, find the 'love of their life' in ten minutes, abandon their lives in the US and take up a new life elsewhere? Maybe one a year>.

Even considering moving to Western Europe for 99% of us would not be a decision made at baggage claim....thus, the people claiming otherwise are not be forthright...they knew they had no job to return to, they told their families good-bye, etc, and then engaged in a charade....it's time to put a halt to this abuse of tourist visas...end all COS or AOS from B2 visas, without costing the U.S. taxpayer a dime....

[NikLR 13,227]

USCIS won't ever do it. They make majority of their money from AOS cases.

CBP would need to turn away more people but yet people currently complain about their attitudes. US embassies and consulates abroad would have to deny more visitor visas but that would put the tourist economy in the USA at risk as well.

It's not going to happen and people will lie. You can't control anyone's actions but your own.

[R2B 2]

I have no idea about the success rate of B2->LPR by AOS. However, I do see several cases that B2 wives were declined for AOS , they were asked to go back to original country to apply CR1/IR1 or file i601 based on extreme hardship of USC-- which is almost impossible to prove.

[Boiler 45,482]

I have no idea about the success rate of B2->LPR by AOS. However, I do see several cases that B2 wives were declined for AOS , they were asked to go back to original country to apply CR1/IR1 or file i601 based on extreme hardship of USC-- which is almost impossible to prove.

Odd when you would have thought there are many more people on this site than people you know who have no such difficulties.

Needing a I 601 is a totally separate issue and very possible to obtain.

[KierenHby 899]

End the log jam...end the opportunity for violating the trust of the US government...call or write your legislator today and ask him or her to get behind ending all changes of status (or minds) from B2 visas....make note...it would not cost YOU and I a single cent to have this law enacted.

WHile a very noble idea that has the support of many a regular on this site, AINT HAPPENING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How many Americans visit some third world cesspool of a country, find the 'love of their life' in ten minutes, abandon their lives in the US and take up a new life elsewhere?

And you many wanna get off your high horse. Let's not get too emotional, however much we law-abiding Americans despise law-breakers.

[HFM181818 750]

Actually, I like the view from my high horse.....

[KierenHby 899]

Probably a minority that shares that view.. your CO experience (sort of arrogance?) may be getting to you.

But you are entitled to your view..

[HFM181818 750]

you may call it arrogance, but you have not interviewed tens of thousands of applicants....you have not interviewed even one....you have not seen nor been exposed to the baloney going on out there....not just in the B2 arena, but in other visa categories....like, for example....the H1b, allegedly created to bring the 'best and the brightest' to the US....well, it started that way more than 20-some odd years ago, but now, it's big companies luring the 'cheapest and most desperate'.....oh, did I hear you say, 'what nonsense?'...ok...read this:

Two former IT employees, Leo Perrero and Dena Moore, at Walt Disney World in Florida are suing Disney and two outsourcing/consulting companies, HCL Inc. and Cognizant, who allegedly colluded to break the law and replace workers with less costly H-1B visa holders.

The lawsuits allege that Disney, HCL, and Cognizant were not truthful when they filled out documents for H-1B visas, thus violating a section of the RICO law that bars "fraud and misuse of visas, passports, and other documents."The outsourcing/consulting firms stated under oath that working conditions of "similarly situated employees would not be adversely affected," according to the lawsuits.

The suit explained when 200 to 300 Disney workers were given notices of their layoff, they were forced to train their foreign replacements in order to receive severance and their bonuses. Few workers were rehired and the suit alleges that some were blackballed from being rehired at Disney for at least a year. The suit seeks monetary damages although the end goal is to force Disney, the consulting firms and similar organization to change their business models.

According to the lawsuits, “HCL’s contract with Disney was ultimately intended to adversely affect the working conditions of the similarly situated workers at Disney by terminating American workers and forcing them to train the H1B workers their jobs before the termination.

Disney said in a statement that the lawsuits are based on an unsustainable legal theory and are a misrepresentation of the facts. The company says it hired more than 100 people back into other roles and offered Moore another position at comparable pay. Cognizant said in a statement that it complies with all U.S. regulations regarding the visas.

[Ryan H 3,812]

***Post violating the TOS (hate speech) removed; Administrative Action taken.***

[KierenHby 899]

What's written in post #10 is completely true. I've seen what's been alluded to in that post multiple times with my own two eyes.

My concern was the terminology in #3. While a lot of B2 'visitors' AOS\COS.. bunching their countries in derogatory terms doesn't do justice, IMO. That's where I thought your comments were borderline arrogant.

COs at embassies DO have a tough job, working under stressful circumstances.