Dashinka

Here is the visa bulletin. With your sister's petition, you are F4 and they are currently issuing visas for those that were filed in 2007. If your mother is a USC, she can also submit an I130 for a potential F3, but it is still a long wait. Good Luck! https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Bulletins/visabulletin_October2023.pdf

Been to a few of these mandatory self-criticism sessions. I agree, their basis does not pass the smell test. The Implicit-Bias House of Cards DEI trainings don’t work because one of the concepts on which they are based is junk science. The problems with DEI trainings are not in their tone, however, but in their substance. The implicit-bias theory (also called unconscious-bias theory) on which these trainings are based has no scientific basis, as years of examinations have consistently demonstrated. Lee Jussim puts it politely in his “12 Reasons to Be Skeptical of Common Claims About Implicit Bias,” but the Open Science Foundation’s archive of Articles Critical of the IAT and Implicit Bias renders a harsher verdict. In 2011, Etienne LeBel and Sampo Paunonen reviewed evidence that measures of implicit bias possess low reliability. In other words, when you test for implicit bias multiple times, you rarely get the same result. Their conclusion was that some part of “implicit bias” is really “random measurement error.” In 2017, Heather Mac Donald’s intensive examination of the theory and its empirical basis (or lack thereof) concluded that the “implicit-bias crusade is agenda-driven social science.” And Bertram Gawronski’s 2019 review of the scholarly literature on implicit-bias research also concludes that there’s no proof that people aren’t self-aware enough to know what’s causing their supposedly “implicit” or “unconscious” biases; and that you can’t prove that there’s any relationship between how people do on the test and how they behave in the real world. As far back as 2009, Hart Blanton and colleagues reexamined research data on implicit bias. They found that 70 percent of whites who supposedly displayed implicit bias against blacks actually discriminated in favor of blacks. https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-implicit-bias-house-of-cards

Hmm, I wonder who BU was paying to obtain virtue? Did find it interesting that Henry Rogers’s BIL is a content policy lead at YT. Boston University Loaned $600K to a Mysterious Trust Run by Ibram Kendi’s Brother-In-Law In September of 2020, just weeks after Ibram X. Kendi launched the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, the school approved a $600,000 mortgage to an unnamed professor. The university won’t say which professor that loan went to, but it was doled out to a trust controlled by Ibram X. Kendi’s brother-in-law, Macharia Edmonds. The mortgage helped to cover the down payment for a $4.56 million luxury penthouse triplex that boasts the "best of sophisticated Boston living." Public real estate records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show the trust is controlled by Edmonds, a former Obama campaign official and attorney who now serves as a Global Content Policy Lead for YouTube in San Francisco. Edmonds's only apparent affiliation with Boston University is through Kendi, who is married to his sister, Sadiqa, also an associate professor at Boston University. Edmonds controls the trust on behalf of its unnamed beneficiary. While it’s not uncommon for universities to provide sweetheart loans and mortgages with below-market rates to poach star professors from their competitors, experts told the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2009 that the IRS strongly discourages such transactions. https://freebeacon.com/issues/boston-university-loaned-600k-to-a-mysterious-trust-run-by-ibram-kendis-brother-in-law/

They know where the money comes from, and even though Republicans are also fairly loose with the federal funds, Democrats have a much longer history of taxing and spending (on the bureaucracy). I loved the WFB intro here. Beto Slams Biden’s Border Wall Order as ‘Impotent Political Posturing’ Failed Democratic Senate, presidential, and gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke slammed the Biden administration's decision to allow border wall construction as "impotent political posturing." https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/beto-slams-bidens-border-wall-order-as-impotent-political-posturing/

I am not sure I would fret too much. Iran is not the only country with compulsory military service. I have a friend from South Korea who left with his family as a teenager, and avoided going back until after he aged out of the required military service. The DS5535 is a pain, and I know it is frustrating that your already explained it to the CO, but keep in mind the 5535 documents your explanation for others to also see. As to the length of time in AP, no one can really answer that as the times vary greatly. All you can do is submit what was requested, and hope and pray for quick processing. Good Luck!

Cancelation upcoming? UK prime minister says country shouldn't 'be bullied' into believing there are more than 2 genders United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak went viral this week for a speech in which he said no one should be "bullied into believing that people can be any sex they want." Sunak, the first British Asian to hold the high office, said in his remarks at the Conservative Party conference on Wednesday that "a man is a man, and a woman is a woman," which was met with loud applause by the party faithful. https://www.foxnews.com/world/uk-prime-minister-says-country-shouldnt-be-bullied-believing-there-are-more-than-2-genders

As others have stated, AOS is only an option if they are already here inside the US and their plans changed. No one here will advise you to follow any other route than consular processing given what you stated in your OP. Good Luck!

It may be possible, but is at the discretion of CBP. I found this old thread that seems to indicate land borders are more likely to allow the choice, but this a fairly rare question. I can see the possibilities from the tax perspective, it like I said, I believe it is ultimately up to CBP. Good Luck!

Or which member has never been on VJ Holiday.

I suspect this may be another example. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state-university/spartans/2023/10/05/mel-tucker-wont-participate-in-hearing-ex-msu-coachs-lawyers-share-new-key-evidence/71068891007/

Not many simians in the Bible though. I do think there were some hammers doing some smiting.

Bureaucrats in DC never are made to face the music.

I suspect it happens more often than not especially in those circles.

The TOS bible.

Sounds like the Biden Administration is only interested in losing some funding. If walls do not work, why not tear down the walls around the WH. Also, if they don’t really think there is a need, why bypass so many laws? Mayorkas backtracks on Texas border wall hours after DHS cites 'immediate need' https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mayorkas-backtracks-texas-border-wall-hours-dhs-cites-immediate-need

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Explain your situation to the IO and request an oath at a later time. If you are doing a name change, you won't be able to do a same day oath to my knowledge. Good Luck!

Which office are you interviewing at? Do they do same day oaths?

Winning hearts and minds with their gaslighted antics. Portuguese drivers take matters into their own hands with climate activists: Show ‘how it’s done’ Portuguese drivers lost patience with climate activists blocking a busy highway during rush hour traffic Tuesday morning and took the situation into their own hands. According to the Portugal Resident, activists from a group called Climáximo, sat on Lisbon’s Segunda Circular highway to protest the nearby energy company Galp. Two protesters also hung from cables on a pedestrian bridge overlooking the highway. However, the protest reportedly ended after just a few minutes when frustrated drivers decided to move the activists themselves. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/portuguese-drivers-take-matters-into-their-own-hands-with-climate-activists-show-how-it-s-done/ar-AA1hHWxK

I would do your best to get another one as I would not assume it was added to the file. Good Luck!

So this is your third I130 filing? I suppose you could withdraw that one and then ask the consulate to take the I130.

I am assuming a Just Stop Oil hypocrite? Is that one of her four lifetime flights?

It is interesting how this was communicated. A late night press release. One wonders if it was to get ahead of the lawsuit with Texas. I expect the big environmental groups will be filing lawsuits very soon.

I thought Myorkas, and all the other Bidenistas have been telling us the border is secure?

One thing this event clearly shows is that even when McCarthy hammered out a bi-partisan deal with the Democrats to keep the government open, they will turn around and stab anyone in the back for the sake of the Party. Kind makes me think seeking bi-partisan agreement on anything in DC is worthless.