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Travel to US in free fall
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/terrified-excop-jailed-and-deported-during-holiday-to-us/news-story/f48a5e5f7337df29dcd3679336bf6031 A case that many on the forum can likely relate to, Australians can visit the US on a ESTA (visa waiver) but that ceases once they marry a US citizen. There is a logic to that, and this former police officer tourist seems to have made a genuine error. Before some hardnut steps in and says she was just trying to sneak in, from the article: I think what's shocking is her treatment. Rather than being turned around at Passport control, and told to book a flight home, she is stripped, held in communicado with hardened criminals, presumably to teach her some sort of "lesson" about small print (Americans won't actually know what its like to fill in the online ESTA. The ESTA form doesn't actually ask if you are married to an American. The applicant is somehow supposed to know that foreign nationals who could apply for an immigrant visa are not allowed to apply for a non-immigrant waiver). We hear this repeatedly, the heavy handed nature of US officials. A colleague from Australia arrived in the UK to start a new job at a University, only the University messed up with the paperwork due to a bank holiday. Border Force was going to return the semi-comatose Aussie to Australia, but a few phonecalls generated a pragmatic approach; he was released into the car of an Oxford academic, and spent the next couple of weeks sunning himself in the garden, while the paperwork was worked out. In the UK, we'd say the officials "used their Loaf", to judge a situation. There seems to be lack of common sense, or common sense is not permitted because everything is target driven (compliant and frightened tourists making mistakes are easier to round up than hardcore gang bangers who might shoot back). Not always like that; a friend who is a consultant surgeon in the UK and Malaysian national, was going through the Indefinite Leave to Remain (he's married an English lady, has two great kids). He had been invited to KL as Best Man at a wedding. If you need to leave the UK during the ILR process, you are supposed to ask for permission, whicn is normally only given in exceptional circumstances (death of a parent etc). He thought, logically, no harm in asking. There was harm in asking, because he got a Deportation Order back, 10 days to settle his affairs. It got sorted out at great expense to him. Seemed to have been at least one good person in the system, according to the Australian woman. -
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Did Biden Have a Body Double?
Yes. The character we have seen for the past six years is not Joseph Robinette Biden II. Go on Getty images and type number 1235181192 in the search. Mask visibly coming off at the ear. https://www.gettyimages.fr/detail/photo-d'actualité/president-joe-biden-attends-the-ceremony-at-the-photo-dactualité/1235181192 -
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Accident Russian Dies After Fall from Jomtien Condo
K tough guy. Sorry I was too busy renting some of my properties today lol. You have a right way of thinking, Natural selection at his finest. Keep going! -
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Trump Urges Starmer to Abandon Wind Power in Favor of North Sea Oil
Gosh, he did! Make America Green Again! Donald Trump Allows Major $5 Billion Wind Farm Project to Go Ahead Published May 20, 2025 President Donald Trump has lifted a federal halt on Equinor's Empire Wind, a $5 billion wind farm off the coast of New York. The U.S. Department of the Interior imposed the stop-work order last month, saying information suggested the Biden administration approved the project without enough environmental analysis. -
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[QUIZ] Darwin Awards - All the dumb ways to die!
I just completed this quiz. My Score 16/100 My Time 190 seconds -
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