ChicagoExpat

On 5/11/2024 at 10:58 PM, jasonsamui55 said:

Complete and utter arrogance. They think that everyone wants to live there and be an illegal Mexican lawn boy for the rest of their lives. Haven’t they realized that for the last 20 years so-called third-world people don’t want to live in the US? A.) they’re probably better off in their home countries and b.) if they’re not, and they do want to move, the US is hardly the first choice any more. Maybe from the 1950s to 2000 it was but since 2000 or 9/11 only the lowest of the low South Americans want to go to the US. Everybody else would rather go to Canada or the UK or Australia or anywhere in Europe. Arrogance to the extreme. Riding their legacy laurels as if it were still 1950s. I once lived in HK and was planning to move temporarily to the US for work and offered to take my Filipina maid at the time to the US and sponsor her for a visa. She just laughed and politely declined. She later told me she likes the US but it was like number 30 on her list, so she held out for something better.

You seem to be completely detached from reality on this issue -- both in general as your assertion that "in the last 20 years third world people don't want to live there -- and specifically when it comes to Thais.  Just to take Wikipedia's figures, in 2019 there were 350,000 Thais in the U.S.  You REALLY THINK they all arrived and stayed legally?

On 5/10/2024 at 8:17 PM, how241 said:

A while ago I read that the basic assumption of the immigration staff is to say 'no'  unless you can convince the immigration staff that he should change that to a 'yes'. 

I have no info or facts to back this up,  just read it somewhere.  Good Luck.

It's not just the "basic assumption" -- it's the law.  Section 214 of the INA.

On 5/10/2024 at 3:39 PM, charleskerins said:

it seems that they excel in not granting the visa.  

1) The law assumes that a person will overstay unless they can demonstrate otherwise and 2) wouldn't you err on the side of caution most of the time?

3 years?  What an amateur.  Not long ago I met a guy who was stationed here during Vietnam, was discharged and visited his Mom briefly, and came here and never left.  Literally a 50 year overstay, and never renewed his passport once.  He could hardly speak English anymore and would've died out on the street.  The Embassy sent him back to Iowa to his sister, who was in her 80s.

9 minutes ago, charleskerins said:

Based on the comments it appears it very hard to do   seems like it also depends on the mood of the immigration officer. kinda BS  

Not in the least.  The visa officers would have to be mind readers to get it right 100% of the time.

22 hours ago, jas007 said:

The USA has been trying to provoke Russia for years.  But for CIA and State Department meddling, none of this would have happened the way it did.  Look up Victoria Nuland. They have her scheming on a taped phone call. So yes, the biggest danger to the world. How some people seem to think that WW III would be a good idea escapes me.  Where are the responsible adults?  
 

 

This is all such nonsense.  Yes, of course she was discussing strategy and plans.  She would have been negligent in her job as a diplomat if she didn't.

Again it's the constant references to WW3, and nuclear war, etc -- all right out of the Kremlin's talking points.  The only party in this conversation that started the war is the one saying "Allow us to invade whom we please or you'll provoke conflict."  @jas007, you and other Russian simps are the only ones who take this seriously, if you actually do.  Russia doesn't.  They know exactly what they're doing.

18 hours ago, jas007 said:

Surely, people must know that the military industrial complex in the US is huge. Over the years, trillions of dollars change hands. Lots of money for corruption. And the merchants of war can afford to hire the best spin doctors on planet earth.  And they have. And, in conjunction with the help of their corporate media buddies, they demonize both Russia and Putin.  And the politicians are funded, of course.  And so we are all on the brink of nuclear annihilation, all so that some fat cats and some bankers can make big bucks.

One of the most wonderful aspects of the pro-Putin camp is how they continuously claim that the world is in great danger... but NOT from the country who actually has started the biggest war in Europe since 1945 that has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands.  That country somehow doesn't even come into the conversation, and in the rare occasions it does, it's to justify their invasion by claiming they had no choice.

Hopefully not off-topic — I heard the U.S. Embassy negotiated successfully with Immigration to no longer need any authentications for U.S. documents, either real authentications or the bogus ones you used to have to do by getting an affidavit at the Embassy promising your document is real.

48 minutes ago, Chalong circle said:

In the past 18 months, more than 10 people have died on this stretch of road from Chalong Circle to Rawai.

With a name like that, I guess you'd know.  Let's wait for Rawai to add his thoughts.

I think this is the same stretch of road where the Russian killed the American and the European girl in November.

22 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

 

It's only posters that can't control their emotions, and are not dealing in facts, logic, and the data of this case that seem to have a problem with what I posted.

 

I have simply been stating facts as they have been reported.

 

It seems this case has folk like you rattled.

There is nothing factual, logical, or data-driven in the nonsense you post.

4 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

 

Stick to the ad hominem, you are useless at facts, logic, and data.

Says the guy who just went ad hominem, love the irony!

And says the guy who has an entire forum arguing with him over how stupid his posts are.

15 hours ago, transam said:

How do you know, plus his firearm licence will have a name on, let's not jump to conclusions, eh...😉

Jumping to conclusions -- and then defending those erroneous conclusions in the face of all logic and data -- is the only exercise MeeSeeks gets.  Let's not take that away from him.

12 hours ago, bannork said:

When people slip, they invariably utter an instinctive sound or word- 'oh', 'aaah', etc. 

I'm not sure what sound Swiss people emit but I'm fairly sure it's not ' fluck off' repeated.

MeeSeeks thinks that's what they say.

5 minutes ago, sambum said:

Maybe the earlier reports had some kind of "difficulty in translation"? "Mistaken identity"?

 

If he did have licences, why is he being charged for not having licences? :- "......face charges of illegal possession of firearms and carrying firearms in public."

Shhhh, don't try to confuse him.

On 3/9/2024 at 8:19 AM, Mr Meeseeks said:

 

You are only done with it because you don't like me stating the facts. 

 

 

OK, I'm back, challenge accepted.  No, it's because you're a total idiot who has a hard-on for the Swiss guy.  Each response you have done literally exactly what I said you did.  And you continue to do so.

How's that, smart@ss?

8 minutes ago, Hellfire said:

I bet you would write the same non-sense if this Swiss man was beheaded on the central square in Bangkok. If he broke a law - it does not mean he deserves ANY punishment possible (up to a choice of an angry mob, for example). After all - this is why the laws exist in the first place - to get to each fact of “law breaking” an adequate punishment. There is no such a crime as just “breaking a law”.

Really?  A public beheading is the same as having your visa cancelled for almost certainly assaulting someone?  Very dramatic.