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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Wales
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5 hours ago, charmander said:

Hmm... interesting yes.

 

Though the 2nd link I shared there shows only 501 Canadians were given B1,2 visas in 2016. Basically 1000 people applied, 500 rejected. Wonder why they even applied, extended visit? or business issues?

Neither, lots of dodgy Canadians

 

Well ones who need a  B anyway

“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.”

Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Denmark
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6 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   Most Canadians don't need a B2 to enter the USA. Most Canadians can enter the USA at the border without a B2.  When they have to apply for a B2, there is often an underlying issue that prevents them from entering. 

There are billboards at the border crossing near my house advertising legal help for these types, especially the Americans who get refused for a previous drunk driving arrest.

 

6 hours ago, Ebunoluwa said:

Caucasians ? Are you basing your "diverse enough" on skin color ?  Just wow.
I could think of many things that make this country diverse.
Shall we go with eye color next ?

I actually don't think of Caucasian as necessarily describing a skin color.  Caucasians can be Cuban or Middle Eastern and have a range from pink to brown.   In fact, none of those little check boxes that describe race are really describing a skin color.   In any case, I think lumping all Caucasians together in the group statistically in the modern world doesn't really paint a correct picture of true diversity.  A better measure of diversity might be religious, political, and cultural backgrounds.  Perhaps we shouldn't try and fill quotas to meet goals and in the process label people with some arbitrary value that they need to fill.

Edited by N-o-l-a

3/2/18  E-filed N-400 under 5 year rule

3/26/18 Biometrics

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Posted
On 11/14/2017 at 9:46 PM, smilesammich said:

i'm having a really hard time taking the op seriously, they don't even know what open borders are considering we're nowhere near having them..

You don't take me seriously?  

 

 

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Posted
13 hours ago, smilesammich said:

unfortunately limiting legal immigration is only going to cause fraud and abuse of vwp to skyrocket. imo..

Not after it is eliminated.

13 hours ago, CaliCat said:

 

VWP needs to go away. It's fraud-prone and abused often.

ZOMG!  I knew eventually we would agree on something.

 

 

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Posted
11 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   The rate of non compliance with existing US immigration law has been high in the PI. All high risk countries have similar issues with their citizens getting US tourist visas. 

This is the reason why it is extremely difficult for Filipinos to get a tourist visa to America. 

 

I do think it is ridiculous that the wait times for F4 visas from the Philippines is almost 20 years.  Although, I am not a fan of chain immigration.  As some others have pointed out, limiting immigration numbers by race seems to be pretty darn racist - we have enough of your people, we need some people from somewhere else.

 

 

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Wales
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Posted
4 minutes ago, jayjayj said:

This is the reason why it is extremely difficult for Filipinos to get a tourist visa to America. 

 

I do think it is ridiculous that the wait times for F4 visas from the Philippines is almost 20 years.  Although, I am not a fan of chain immigration.  As some others have pointed out, limiting immigration numbers by race seems to be pretty darn racist - we have enough of your people, we need some people from somewhere else.

Not race

 

Not even Nationality

 

But yes the F4 is also silly.

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Posted
11 hours ago, charmander said:

What do you mean by very hard? Do people refrain from applying because they think they would be automatically denied?

 

I say that because according to the DOS statistics, in 2016 Philippines B visas had 27% refusal rate (not the best but certainly not the worst) but 100 thousand people was given a B1/B2 visa last year.

Yes, I know people who have refrained from applying because they figured they would be denied.  That might be a misconception, but it is a very common thought among ordinary Filipinos.  It makes me wonder what the refusal rate would be if people didn't consider it to be nearly impossible.

 

 

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6 hours ago, N-o-l-a said:

1.  Caucasians can be Cuban or Middle Eastern and have a range from pink to brown.

2.  Perhaps we shouldn't try and fill quotas to meet goals and in the process label people with some arbitrary value that they need to fill.

1.  To be most precise, "Caucasian" should refer to those from the Caucasus region of Russia or wherever it is now.

     Or, it refers to people who attend political caucuses (such as the Hawkeye Cauci).

2. :thumbs: 

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Canada
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7 hours ago, jayjayj said:

Yes, I know people who have refrained from applying because they figured they would be denied.  That might be a misconception, but it is a very common thought among ordinary Filipinos.  It makes me wonder what the refusal rate would be if people didn't consider it to be nearly impossible.

The question that gets an almost auto reject is yes to: " Do you have family in the United States" 

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Wales
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A quick perusal of the VJ forums will explain why, even those who get one seem to find it difficult to comply with the terms.

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Posted
7 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

1.  To be most precise, "Caucasian" should refer to those from the Caucasus region of Russia or wherever it is now.

     Or, it refers to people who attend political caucuses (such as the Hawkeye Cauci).

2. :thumbs: 

I was just trying to make a statement how the demographics of the country are vastly different now than they were 25+ years ago when this program was instituted. 

 

1. The word Caucasian means pretty much could entail anyone from Europe, ME, and the Caucacus region. I was reading something on Aljazeera a couple years ago how they were trying to get people to "demand a Arab title and not be labeled as Caucasian". 

Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Denmark
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10 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

I was just trying to make a statement how the demographics of the country are vastly different now than they were 25+ years ago when this program was instituted. 

 

1. The word Caucasian means pretty much could entail anyone from Europe, ME, and the Caucacus region. I was reading something on Aljazeera a couple years ago how they were trying to get people to "demand a Arab title and not be labeled as Caucasian". 

I got your point, but I think that most people expect that numerical value to reflect the number of very light skinned Caucasians.. which isn't the case.

 

Not all Middle Easterners are Arab, which would add some complexity to that.  

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Filed: AOS (apr) Country: Cyprus
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I am sure the poster who referred the Caucasians are at 65% and that is an indicator that there is enough diversity did not mean Arabs or people from the Caucasus. Give me a break with the back peddling. 

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Denmark
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Posted
13 minutes ago, Ebunoluwa said:

I am sure the poster who referred the Caucasians are at 65% and that is an indicator that there is enough diversity did not mean Arabs or people from the Caucasus. Give me a break with the back peddling. 

 

I'm not really sure how they could have meant anything else since the statistics on what you implied are not available.

3/2/18  E-filed N-400 under 5 year rule

3/26/18 Biometrics

7/2019-12/2019 (Yes, 16- 21 months) Estimated time to interview MSP office.

 

Posted
18 minutes ago, Ebunoluwa said:

I am sure the poster who referred the Caucasians are at 65% and that is an indicator that there is enough diversity did not mean Arabs or people from the Caucasus. Give me a break with the back peddling. 

exactly. he should have just said white people and spared us all the semantics tango. the number of 'caucasian' americans in context of the quote wouldn't include arabs or people from caucasus..

 

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