Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:12:13 +0000 From: "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, lcremean@tidalwave.net, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...) Message-ID: <980616221213.ZM10797@darkstar.connect.com> In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> "US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...)" (Jun 15, 12:57pm) References: <199806131959.QAA25251@roma.coe.ufrj.br> <19980613174107.42635@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net> <19980615125757.61980@papillon.lemis.com>
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Greg, Just for comparison purposes, when you enter countries such as England, France, Germany, or your own country Australia? Are we in the US more or less paranoid? All of this makes me wonder if US intelligence isn't on to some new potential threats. Regards, Frank On Jun 15, 12:57pm, Greg Lehey wrote: > Subject: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...) > 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 >-- End of excerpt from Greg Lehey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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