Pwalker

Hi, I was hoping someone could help me with a few issues. I have a friend
from the Philippines who is a veterinarian. She gained her education in the
Philippines. She is in her early 30's. For the past several years she has
been trying to gain a visitors entry visa to the USA. Each time she has been
rejected entry. She recollect that when she went for the interview at the
American Embassy the representative usually gave her smart comments like
"you cant have entry because we know you have every intention of remaining
in the USA and no intention of returning back to the Philippines". I mean
that is awful!!! The instances she wanted to go to the USA were for
veterinarian conferences which were of several days duration. They wouldn't
even give her a visitor's visa for those few days. This is so ridiculous.
She does want to eventually move to the USA because she has very close
relatives there (grandparents). Here I am feeling terrible in ways as I am
doubly lucky having both German and Australian citizenship (where either
would get me into the USA without applying for a visa), and she cant gain
entry at all! Isn't there anything that can be done? I presently live in
Australia. She has been suggested the idea of gaining entry to the USA via
initial entry to Australia. But that's taking the long way around. Can
someone suggest any way for her to gain a visitor's visa to the USA? Any
past experiences?



Any help would be so much appreciated!



Kindest regards,

Peter

Supernav

Her countrymen have created a REAL bad reputation of coming to the US
and overstaying. As a result, it's made everyone's visas a lot more
difficult.



To get it, she's gonna need to do a LOT more paperwork, and proof that
she's going to come back. Merely showing some conference in the US
doesn't mean anything. She needs to get a good lawyer in that area to
prepare her case.



-= nav =-

Pwalker

thanks for the response.

what exactly constitutes good proof that she will come back? That is the
question



"supernav" <member@british_expats.com> wrote in message
news:...
    > Her countrymen have created a REAL bad reputation of coming to the US
    > and overstaying. As a result, it's made everyone's visas a lot more
    > difficult.
    > To get it, she's gonna need to do a LOT more paperwork, and proof that
    > she's going to come back. Merely showing some conference in the US
    > doesn't mean anything. She needs to get a good lawyer in that area to
    > prepare her case.
    > -= nav =-
    > --
    > Posted via http://britishexpats.com

Ingo Pakleppa - See Web Site For Email

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 12:18:40 +0000, supernav wrote:

    >
    > Her countrymen have created a REAL bad reputation of coming to the US
    > and overstaying. As a result, it's made everyone's visas a lot more
    > difficult.

It's not really just her countrymen in this case. The main issue is that
so many Filipinos have US relatives, because the Philippines used to be US
territories. This really is primarily an aftershock from Filipino
independence in 1946.

    > To get it, she's gonna need to do a LOT more paperwork, and proof that
    > she's going to come back. Merely showing some conference in the US
    > doesn't mean anything. She needs to get a good lawyer in that area to
    > prepare her case.

Ingo Pakleppa - See Web Site For Email

Unfortunately, there are some situations where it can be not just
difficult, but impossible to come up with sufficient proof. And this
applies to German citizens, too. I recently talked to somebody who was
denied admission on the visa waiver, then had to apply for a tourist visa,
and was denied that, too. The situation was similar: young unmarried woman
with not too many ties to the home country and a strong incentive to move
to the USA.

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 09:48:34 +1000, pwalker wrote:

    > thanks for the response.
    >
    > what exactly constitutes good proof that she will come back? That is the
    > question
    >
    >
    >
    > "supernav" <member@british_expats.com> wrote in message
    > news:...
    >> Her countrymen have created a REAL bad reputation of coming to the US
    >> and overstaying. As a result, it's made everyone's visas a lot more
    >> difficult.
    >> To get it, she's gonna need to do a LOT more paperwork, and proof that
    >> she's going to come back. Merely showing some conference in the US
    >> doesn't mean anything. She needs to get a good lawyer in that area to
    >> prepare her case.
    >> -= nav =-
    >> --
    >> Posted via http://britishexpats.com

Pwalker

"Ingo Pakleppa - see web site for email" <> wrote in message
news:...
    > On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 12:18:40 +0000, supernav wrote:
    > >
    > > Her countrymen have created a REAL bad reputation of coming to the US
    > > and overstaying. As a result, it's made everyone's visas a lot more
    > > difficult.
    > It's not really just her countrymen in this case. The main issue is that
    > so many Filipinos have US relatives, because the Philippines used to be US
    > territories. This really is primarily an aftershock from Filipino
    > independence in 1946.

And here I was thinking that because she has relatives in the US, this would
help her obtain a visa. Maybe her mentioning she has relatives is a
deterrent. There are so many ways of interpreting the situation!



Cheers

Peter