On 11.08.2011 12:42, Roan Kattouw wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Béria Lima <berial...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is not for "no reason", they just think all of us are looking forward for >> the possibility of live in the "dream land" that is America, and can't >> believe we would come back after be there[1]. > This is not as exaggerated as it may sound. When someone applies for a > nonimmigrant visa or visa-free entry, the consular or immigration > officer is required by law to assume immigrant intent (i.e. assume > they intend to stay forever; the opposite of assume good faith I guess > :D) unless the applicant can convince them otherwise by showing > binding ties (job, education, house, family, those kind of things, > reasons why you'd come back) to their home country.
Interestingly, this is quite similar, though converse, to what it was like to get out of East Germany[1]: the officer would assume you intended to stay out, and you had to show binding ties that would make you come back. it's a strange world. daniel [1] I'm told. I was quite young then, and living in the West. _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l