One comparison that could help them understand: you know the kind of experience you get at the DMV? Getting a visa is 10x more kafkaesque and frustrating, and takes several months (to be repeated every few years, for 5-15 years until you get a green card)https://twitter.com/noampomsky/status/1223679577743970310 …
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Just as they were about to put that stamp, they noticed that her old student visa had a mistake — its date was off by one day. Not that it should matter — she hadn’t been on that visa for 7+ yrs and got a few other ones since then. But the bureaucracy wanted its correct date
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So they took her passport to correct the mistake, telling her it should take “a few days.” It’s been 5 weeks, during which she’s been stuck in France, 5000 miles away from home (been living in the US for 10+ years). Obviously hasn’t been able to get a single update from them
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On online forums, she’s met folks who went through the same ordeal, and got stuck for up to 26 months(!). She’s asked me to help her move her stuff out of her apartment in SF, in the event that she’s still stuck 2 months from now. Imagine how she must feel.
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Anyway, all immigrants personally know at least one person with such a horror story. I can think of three off the top my head — and that’s just the ones I’m close to.
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Friends of mine after having their visa approved had to go to Paris to get the same stamp. For reasons nobody ever understand the employee at the US consulate in Paris declined the visa.
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Immigrants don’t understand that they can have a perfectly valid visa and lead a normal, honest life, and see it destroyed by a border agent at the airport w/ the authority to cancel their visa, prevent them from getting new ones, and won’t even remember about them the day after
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