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pugboy wrote:i don’t think they ask for bank statements anymore
at least when i was there tuesday nobody was asked for any extra documentation to show
you guys aware of fatca right?
redmanjp wrote:^ so she took your word for it?
Phone Surgeon wrote:redmanjp wrote:^ so she took your word for it?
they already see all those things. and know everything
they just wanna see if you lying.
Phone Surgeon wrote:yeahhh so a lil more on my situation
i had really applied for the visa for having a visa sake, i didnt have any purpose or trip planned....
honestly i wasnt really taking it on, i just say it was a easy approval as usual.
the woman ask me where i work, my salary, how much times i use to travel to miami a month (use to be 4 times a month most times), what i usually travel for, then
blam.....denied.....give me a sheet of paper with a long list of potential reasons and tell me i could reapply down the line
pugboy wrote:a few years ago there was a big uproar about the embassy wanting ppl to state their social media info on application
doesn’t seem that ever panned out at least in official manner
This is a quota for banana Republics like Trinidad.adnj wrote:The US only approves about 75% of visa applications. There is no quota for visitor's visas.
White House Office Rejects DHS Proposal to Collect Social Media Data on Travel and Immigration Forms
April 27, 2021
Earlier this month, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), the White House office that reviews federal regulations, rejected the Department of Homeland Security’s proposal to collect social media identifiers on travel and immigration forms. OIRA concluded that DHS did not “adequately [demonstrate] the practical utility of collecting this information” and noted that the Muslim ban, which ordered the proposal, had been repealed.
The proposal, which the Brennan Center and our allies have opposed in writing, asked for authorization to require roughly 33 million people a year to register every social media handle they have used over the past five years on any of 20 platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. If approved, the measure would have required a wide range of individuals to turn over their social media handles to the federal government — including people eligible for short trips to the United States without a visa, those seeking asylum or refugee status, and permanent U.S. residents seeking to become citizens.
Halting the DHS collection is a big deal, and we welcome it. But it is only a first step. The Biden administration, which is now conducting a review of whether collection of social media identifiers “meaningfully improved screening and vetting,” should also end the State Department’s corresponding collection from about 14 million people a year who fill out its visa applications. Like the DHS proposal, this State Department policy was underpinned by the Muslim ban and was justified with practically identical supporting documentation. As OIRA’s decision signals, there is little evidence that social media screening is an effective screening tool. But we do know that facilitating dragnet surveillance of the modern public square harms free speech and privacy, imposing a disparate impact on people who have traditionally borne the brunt of government profiling in the name of national security.
It is unsurprising that DHS was unable to demonstrate the “practical utility” of its proposed collection. In fact, the agency’s own internal tests have questioned the benefits of using social media to screen people coming to the United States. In a 2016 transition brief prepared for the incoming Trump administration, DHS reported that in three of the four programs it used to vet refugees, information from social media “did not yield clear, articulable links to national security concerns,” even when an applicant was flagged as a potential threat through other channels. (The Department did not identify any derogatory information at all from the fourth pilot.) Among other observations, officials also pointed out the difficulty of understanding “with any level of certainty” the context and reliability of what they were reviewing. They concluded that “mass social media screening” was a poor use of resources, taking people away from “the more targeted enhanced vetting they are well trained and equipped to do.”
Indeed, the DHS Inspector General in 2017 reviewed the Department’s social media monitoring pilot programs and explicitly stated they could not justify scaling the practice because DHS didn’t define criteria for success against which to measure the programs. As OIRA noted, if there is any evidence that social media screening is an effective screening tool, the federal government certainly hasn’t provided it.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ ... ata-travel
xtech wrote:AlphaMan wrote:How did persons "demonstrate ties" in Trinidad to get a Visa in the first place but ended up staying in the USA?
DId they just abandon there assets?
That’s how they did it in the old days before globalization kicked in. Or they sold everything house land car after getting the visas. Convert everything to USD and fly out. Know people who did that started a new life and got deported and returned to nothing
AlphaMan wrote:xtech wrote:AlphaMan wrote:How did persons "demonstrate ties" in Trinidad to get a Visa in the first place but ended up staying in the USA?
DId they just abandon there assets?
That’s how they did it in the old days before globalization kicked in. Or they sold everything house land car after getting the visas. Convert everything to USD and fly out. Know people who did that started a new life and got deported and returned to nothing
Whats the safest and most legal way to obtain a Visa and migrate to the US?
No underhand thing..
hover11 wrote:The Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) says a proposed change to regulations governing US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Fees could see people wishing to work in the United States having to pay anywhere from 33% to 137% increased fees for special permits and visas to do so.
For more: https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/ttcsi-c ... f6bbe23ab8
hover11 wrote:The Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) says a proposed change to regulations governing US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Fees could see people wishing to work in the United States having to pay anywhere from 33% to 137% increased fees for special permits and visas to do so.
For more: https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/ttcsi-c ... f6bbe23ab8
redmanjp wrote:hover11 wrote:The Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) says a proposed change to regulations governing US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Fees could see people wishing to work in the United States having to pay anywhere from 33% to 137% increased fees for special permits and visas to do so.
For more: https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/ttcsi-c ... f6bbe23ab8
this is only for work visas right? not visitors/tourist visa?
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