What part is not true? Please enlighten me.
What part is not true? Please enlighten me.
When you get a TOURIST VISA, one that is time limited, there isn’t usually all the investigative work done prior to giving the visa. If the foreigner has a current passport from their native country, that is usually sufficient. Living in CA as I do, I have first-hand knowledge of this because a few years ago, a relative of mine had a hauling business and on occasion, he hired a couple of Guatemalan day laborers. They told him that they had come to the US on TOURIST VISAS, but had overstayed them to stay here an work. And that is where almost half of our illegal alien population comes to be here. Only the real bottom of the barrel people walk or swim into the country. Only people who don’t have a passport and don’t have the price of an airline ticket.
Now, if you are coming here to work, (like an H1B visa), the process is more complicated and more information is requested. Usually these visas come by way of a company hiring foreign nationals ( I used to work in the Silicon Valley so I am familiar with this process, having hired a few myself). In a couple of instances we actually had to hire an immigration lawyer, and at the time the big hangup wasn’t the State Department, it was the Department of Labor. Personally, I doubt that WORK VISAS are the problem, because they involve professional people, who are not criminals, who make a lot of money, so they are not here to become wards of the state.