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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a similar thread last week, OP. People said their return was smooth.

Now people like me, who are waiting for green cards, or have visas, have doubts based on the recent lived experience of others. I am not crossing a border any time soon!

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Whatever. I am on a visa and am crossing the border all the time, as are millions of other people, without incident. I wouldn’t come to the US on vacation at the moment, and I would be terrified if I were eg active in support of Palestine, but I don’t think most people need to worry overly.[/quote]

In my social circle, it's only the internationals who travel for work that are actively crossing borders right now. No one I know on a visa is vacationing outside the US. They might (and we might) if one of our parents had a life or death emergency, something like that. But no crossing borders for fun stuff. It's just not worth the risk.

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Yes a very reasonable approach.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/australian-with-us-working-visa-detained-insulted-deported[/quote]

Horrific. [/quote]

Horrible. I am not sure that this is typical though, I haven’t heard many stories like this yet. And 10s of thousands of people cross the border every day…[/quote]

Yeah but that's the point- they don't have to do stuff like this very much.  It can instill fear in people and they decide to just leave or not come back, this kind of thing is too risky if it happens to you.  That's their goal.

I know someone on a visa like this- it's a work visa that has no renewal limit.  So many people do indeed stay in the US for years, meet someone, rent an apartment, etc.  All very natural things and completely legal.  They do all this because they reasonably expect to be able to renew the work visa on the proscribed schedule.  Day-to-day it's not a concern.  But these visas say that they are not supposed to have "immigrant intent", meaning you can't, at the time of applying or renewing, intend to eventually settle in the US as your permanent home.  You can be asked to show that you still have ties at home- bank accounts, voting records, family, etc.  This guy made a "mistake" because he said "I live in the US", using understandable colloquial language.  He has a partner he lives with, they have an apartment he sleeps in probably 350 nights a year, a full-time job in the US, etc.

But the CBP officer chose to interpret that as "I intend to make the US my permanent residence", probably because he decided he didn't like him for some reason.  He just has to write that as the justification on the form, and it's done, legally.

Good luck out there everyone. It's a brave new world.[/quote]

Your post belongs in politics. [/quote]
No, it doesn’t. (DP). [/quote]

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