From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 16 13:30:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17802 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:30:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from papillon.lemis.com (rider.dunham.org [207.170.123.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17684 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:29:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id MAA00595; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 12:58:00 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980615125757.61980@papillon.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 12:57:57 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: lcremean@tidalwave.net, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...) References: <199806131959.QAA25251@roma.coe.ufrj.br> <19980613174107.42635@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <19980613174107.42635@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net>; from Lee Cremeans on Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 05:41:07PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 13 June 1998 at 17:41:07 -0400, Lee Cremeans wrote: > The root of this, though, is the fact that the State Department is > paranoid, very paranoid. I'm sure they have some right to be at this > moment, after all the attacks on US installations in the Middle East > (and the NYC World Trade Center bombing here 5 years ago) by rabid > Islam fundamentalists...and the Nazi thing is because there are > Nazis hiding out in South America, apparently, that avoided the > Nuremburg trials in 1946 (most are very old now, and I would not > doubt they'd all be dead in 10 years). Don't believe that these questions are new. As I mentioned, we had them (+ communism) in 1957, and every time since that I've applied for a US visa, I have had to answer pretty much the same collection. Here's another one. My visa is valid until some time in 2001, but when I left for the US last week, I was given a green form I-94W (Visa Waiver Arrival/Departure Form). On the back of it, just above the signature, was this interesting statement: WAIVER OF RIGHTS: I hereby waive any rights to review or appeal of an immgration officer's determination as to my admissibility, or to contest, other that on the basis of an application for asylum, any action in deportation. My first reaction was to cross out this paragraph. I decided a little later that that would not be a good idea, and got the I-94 (white form, for people with visas). But what a waiver! Any immigration officer who didn't like the look of me could just send me back half way round the world, and I couldn't even complain. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message