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When Ines Gómez Calderón arrived at Miami International Airport June 1 on a flight from Colombia she was promptly arrested after immigration authorities learned she had previously overstayed her tourist visa for nine years.
While Gómez Calderon’s lengthy overstay was an unusual case, passport control officers at MIA regularly encounter travelers who have previously stayed beyond the expiration date on their visas.
When Ines Gómez Calderón arrived at Miami International Airport June 1 on a flight from Colombia she was promptly arrested after immigration authorities learned she had previously overstayed her tourist visa for nine years.
While Gómez Calderon’s lengthy overstay was an unusual case, passport control officers at MIA regularly encounter travelers who have previously stayed beyond the expiration date on their visas.
We need to clamp down on visa over stayers just as much as those who enter illegally in the first place.
Even more of a higher standard because they should be aware of the regulations and laws in coming into the USA. The folks are no longer welcome guest of this country.
When Ines Gómez Calderón arrived at Miami International Airport June 1 on a flight from Colombia she was promptly arrested after immigration authorities learned she had previously overstayed her tourist visa for nine years.
While Gómez Calderon’s lengthy overstay was an unusual case, passport control officers at MIA regularly encounter travelers who have previously stayed beyond the expiration date on their visas.
Have said this time and time again, but always shot down. Visa overstays are a huge part of the "illegal" immigration problem. However since they are usually white/European and or from more prosperous nations they get a pass.
Persons come here on tourist and other visas and simply do not leave. They then scheme and connive to become "legal". The usual route is simply to marry an American citizen.
There was a gay man from South American who came on a tourist visa and never left. Settling in New Jersey he opened a dance school then became a cause celeb when he and his then husband went to the media to complain the US government wouldn't (then) recognize their marriage. The couple lives in Princeton New Jersey and was among a dozen or more gay couples that the Obama administration refused to deport. Claim was that DOMA was unfair and that otherwise the American would be allowed to sponsor his or her same sex spouse to remain in the USA.
Obama also stepped in and changed immigration rules so any illegal alien/visa overstay of an American spouse would not have to leave US soil as part of the process of gaining legal resident status. Part of the problem with that requirement is the visa overstay would be slapped with a no return penalty which can be high as ten years.
Unlike some other countries the USA is not even interested in tracking *when* those who arrive on various visas leave. All attempts at imposing such have been met with stiff opposition.
I noticed a job announcement here and I can't remember the exact wording but I knew they were excluding those that had overstayed their visa. We have a LOT of foreign students at the college, a teacher's college. My older son was offered $10,000 about 15 years ago to marry a student from Germany that wanted to stay in the country. He didn't even know her. My son was SO shocked by this but I'm guessing it is rather common. He didn't consider it for a minute but I am betting it wasn't hard to find someone that took the money. In our area of the country, that's a lot of money especially for a student. She wanted nothing other than the marriage certificate, well, yes to most people that's a lot.
Have said this time and time again, but always shot down. Visa overstays are a huge part of the "illegal" immigration problem. However since they are usually white/European and or from more prosperous nations they get a pass.
Persons come here on tourist and other visas and simply do not leave. They then scheme and connive to become "legal". The usual route is simply to marry an American citizen.
There was a gay man from South American who came on a tourist visa and never left. Settling in New Jersey he opened a dance school then became a cause celeb when he and his then husband went to the media to complain the US government wouldn't (then) recognize their marriage. The couple lives in Princeton New Jersey and was among a dozen or more gay couples that the Obama administration refused to deport. Claim was that DOMA was unfair and that otherwise the American would be allowed to sponsor his or her same sex spouse to remain in the USA.
Obama also stepped in and changed immigration rules so any illegal alien/visa overstay of an American spouse would not have to leave US soil as part of the process of gaining legal resident status. Part of the problem with that requirement is the visa overstay would be slapped with a no return penalty which can be high as ten years.
Unlike some other countries the USA is not even interested in tracking *when* those who arrive on various visas leave. All attempts at imposing such have been met with stiff opposition.
Utter nonsense. Many visa over stayers are those who come through our southern border and never go back home. They are just as guilty of finding an American citizen to marry as any other ethnic group is that does that. Let's not pull the race card here, shall we? I don't care what color of skin they are they all need to go back home and that is the sentiments of most Americans who are anti-illegal.
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