On 11.08.2011 12:42, Roan Kattouw wrote:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Béria Lima berialima@gmail.com wrote:
Is not for "no reason", they just think all of us are looking forward for the possibility of live in the "dream land" that is America, and can't believe we would come back after be there[1].
This is not as exaggerated as it may sound. When someone applies for a nonimmigrant visa or visa-free entry, the consular or immigration officer is required by law to assume immigrant intent (i.e. assume they intend to stay forever; the opposite of assume good faith I guess :D) unless the applicant can convince them otherwise by showing binding ties (job, education, house, family, those kind of things, reasons why you'd come back) to their home country.
Interestingly, this is quite similar, though converse, to what it was like to get out of East Germany[1]: the officer would assume you intended to stay out, and you had to show binding ties that would make you come back.
it's a strange world.
daniel
[1] I'm told. I was quite young then, and living in the West.