On 11.08.2011 12:42, Roan Kattouw wrote:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:27 PM, BĂ©ria Lima
<berialima(a)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.