ICE detains a Polish doctor and green-card holder who has lived in the U.S. for nearly 40 years

[Steeleballz 7,550]

18 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

Not to live permanently no. Just go try to move to the UAE with your family and then overstay your visa. I would like to see what happens after that.

 

     I think Mango said immigrants. If you were on a visa in the UAE, you were a non-immigrant. The USA treats those 2 categories differently as well, but that was not the point.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

5 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

     I think Mango said immigrants. If you were on a visa in the UAE, you were a non-immigrant. The USA treats those 2 categories differently as well, but that was not the point.

What are you talking about?????? If you are on a work visa here in the USA you are a immigrant as well. The thing is that the whole GCC region does not let in many legal immigrants at all and you sure don't want to see what they do to Illegal immigrants.

[Boiler 46,103]

4 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

What are you talking about?????? If you are on a work visa here in the USA you are a immigrant as well. The thing is that the whole GCC region does not let in many legal immigrants at all and you sure don't want to see what they do to Illegal immigrants.

Work visas are all non immigrant, some allow immigrant intent.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

2 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

What are you talking about?????? If you are on a work visa here in the USA you are a immigrant as well. The thing is that the whole GCC region does not let in many legal immigrants at all and you sure don't want to see what they do to Illegal immigrants.

 

  In the USA, many work visa's are non immigrant categories. Certain ones allow dual intent, but they are still treated as non-immigrant. If you overstay there are usually consequences).

 

  If you are on an immigrant work visa, you end up with a green card, in which case you can't overstay.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

2 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  In the USA, many work visa's are non immigrant categories. Certain ones allow dual intent, but they are still treated as non-immigrant. If you overstay there are usually consequences).

 

  If you are on an immigrant work visa, you end up with a green card, in which case you can't overstay.

It's all a little fuzzy now, it's been a while, but isn't the K 1 labeled non immigrant 

[Boiler 46,103]

5 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

It's all a little fuzzy now, it's been a while, but isn't the K 1 labeled non immigrant 

It is but it is dealt with by the Immigrant Visa Unit. Sort of grey one.

 

There are Immigrant visa categories through work etc but they are not work visa's. 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

23 minutes ago, Boiler said:

It is but it is dealt with by the Immigrant Visa Unit. Sort of grey one.

 

There are Immigrant visa categories through work etc but they are not work visa's. 

I thought it strange they call it non immigrant 

[charmander 692]

1 hour ago, cyberfx1024 said:

What are you talking about?????? If you are on a work visa here in the USA you are a immigrant as well. The thing is that the whole GCC region does not let in many legal immigrants at all and you sure don't want to see what they do to Illegal immigrants.

Nope. Work visas are non-immigrant visas. I lived in the US for 10 years as a non-immigrant, 6.5 as a student, then 3.5 as a non-immigrant worker.

 

But it is true that vast majority of EB green cards go to H1Bs, who came here as non-immigrant workers and then adjust status.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

1 hour ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

It's all a little fuzzy now, it's been a while, but isn't the K 1 labeled non immigrant 

It comes with a wink and a nod from authorities

[Dashinka 24,791]

2 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  In the USA, many work visa's are non immigrant categories. Certain ones allow dual intent, but they are still treated as non-immigrant. If you overstay there are usually consequences).

 

  If you are on an immigrant work visa, you end up with a green card, in which case you can't overstay.

So we should start calling those here illegally "illegal non-immigrants"?

[Steeleballz 7,550]

2 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

I thought it strange they call it non immigrant 

 

     It's is a non-immigrant visa because it requires marriage to the USC and adjustment of status to remain in the US. AOS is the actual process of changing from non-immigrant to immigrant status while in the USA. If the k-1 entrant does not get married, they remain in non-immigrant status and cannot legally stay in the USA.

 

  

 

 

 

   

[TBoneTX 46,117]

1 hour ago, Steeleballz said:

It's is a non-immigrant visa because it requires marriage to the USC and adjustment of status to remain in the US. AOS is the actual process of changing from non-immigrant to immigrant status while in the USA. If the k-1 entrant does not get married, they remain in non-immigrant status and cannot legally stay in the USA.

Yes.  Even more concisely, as explained to me by an immigration lawyer, "The K-1 is a strange animal, a hybrid visa -- a nonimmigrant visa with immigrant intent.  That's why it's dealt with by the Immigrant Visa units at the consulates."

[Italian_in_NYC 259]

One question: why didn't this guy apply for US citizenship before? His sister did. He seems educated enough to know the process.

Maybe he was afraid of getting denied for something that was not on the news?

Seems like there's more to the story.

I personally know few people who got their citizenship even with arrest for insignificant violations (mostly weed in the car). One of my closest friend got a DUI the day before his green card interview and still got it (after a while) and he is now a US citizen.

So it has to be more than some rowdy teenager issue.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

1 hour ago, Italian_in_NYC said:

One question: why didn't this guy apply for US citizenship before? His sister did. He seems educated enough to know the process.

Maybe he was afraid of getting denied for something that was not on the news?

Seems like there's more to the story.

I personally know few people who got their citizenship even with arrest for insignificant violations (mostly weed in the car). One of my closest friend got a DUI the day before his green card interview and still got it (after a while) and he is now a US citizen.

So it has to be more than some rowdy teenager issue.

Of course there is more to the story. It's a lame stream press bleeding heart drama to further their,  poor innocent immigrants being attacked by Trump agenda

[charmander 692]

1 hour ago, Italian_in_NYC said:

One question: why didn't this guy apply for US citizenship before? His sister did. He seems educated enough to know the process.

Maybe he was afraid of getting denied for something that was not on the news?

Seems like there's more to the story.

I personally know few people who got their citizenship even with arrest for insignificant violations (mostly weed in the car). One of my closest friend got a DUI the day before his green card interview and still got it (after a while) and he is now a US citizen.

So it has to be more than some rowdy teenager issue.

My guess, at some point he probably did and got denied likely based on lack of gmc.