US Immigration Changes Policy on granting PH Tourist VISA's?
A good friend (pinay) in PH recently told me her sister has an appointment in Manila to get her tourist visa to visit her bf in the States. I suggested it is difficult to get a Tourist Visa unless you have pretty solid circumstances to assure you will return to PH and not overstay the visa (such as owning a profitable business or meaningful real estate in PH). She referred me to a website and told me that the US now had a new policy that allows a US citizen to sponsor a Filipino to help obtain a tourist visa; and it is much easier to get a Tourist Visa now than before. The website had phone numbers for both US and PH offices and the US office was closed today for the weekend; but this appears to be US sponsored website trying to make the process of obtaining a Travel Visa much easier and streamlined.
I visited the US Immigration website and eventually linked to an announcement that said the current US Adminiatration in an effort to revitalize a sluggish economy is encouraging citizens from countries around the world to come visit the United States. And apparently they have been working on this awhile because they also claim they have already increased the number of visas by 17% in 2011 compared to 2010. The Travel Visa it says is a B2 and can be for vacation or business. I was not able to find any information about being a sponsor or that as a requirement. If it is much easier now to get a Tourist Visa (Travel Visa) this is a big change since all the dating websites traditionally offer help getting your pinay sweety to the US but have always said you'll likely never get a Tourist Viaa andtrifecta everyone to the Fiancé Visa which implies you're getting close to deciding to tie a knot.
I will be one of the first bringing a pinay sweetie to US from PH to visit if it's true. Anyone here already have any experience with the new policies as they are currently being implemented in Manila for a Travel Visa to the US?
Editor: please feel free to move my post to an existing thread. I only made a new thread because I didn't see where else to put it.
Visas for 3rd world girls
[QUOTE=Madisonguy;1317111]I'd love it if they did. But some would love if they let you take a bag full of cocaine back from Colombia. It is what it is. I don't know if I would call it terrible either, an annoyance maybe but I think a lot of guys might get sick of bringing girls here. It could do a ton of harm actually, our country is already having problems with illegals taking tons of tax dollars no need to increase that amount.[/QUOTE]About 30 years ago, an American could sign an affidavit of support to help a foreigner obtain a tourist visa. That gives the American citizen the responsibility for the visitor. I did this for a few friends. I was told at the time by an immigration lawyer that the government wanted such an assurance in case the foreign visitor required US government assistance. If that happened, I would be sent a bill. This system did not work very well, because the concern about foreigners changed. The country became increasingly concerned that foreigners would stay and work in the USA illegally. As a result of the shift in concern, the embassies stopped honoring this approach.
An approach that works now, but is admittedly not cheap, is to sign your girlfriend up for English language classes at one of the many schools that teach English as a second language in major cities. The schools are pretty good at obtaining a J visa. The girls do not have to be rich to qualify; they just need to prepay the tuition and housing. The schools do all the heavy lifting when it comes to getting a visa. My friend brought his beautiful 25 year old Brazilian girlfriend to the USA for a month this way (see [url]www[/url] Dot bostonlanguage dot com/). But, he had to pay for a month's worth of classes and he had to rent an apartment in downtown Boston. Then she got pregnant (she did not figure this out until she was back in Brazil, where abortion is illegal) , and the whole situation became a nightmare. In the end, it worked out. But it was a lot to pay for a month of young pussy.
Here is one of the original links I mentioned in my first post
Seems to me this is a different attitude than in the past in terms of trying overcome criticisms that US immigration policy is broken.
[url]http://travel.state.gov/visa/visa_5654.html[/url]
Here it is I finally found it.
Also found the following:
[url]http://travel.state.gov/visa/visa_5735.html[/url]
State department video new as of May this year.
[url]http://travel.state.gov/visa/visa_5663.html[/url]
Never seen such a promotional video before about travel to USA (I suspect this is relatively very new and even brags about short wait times for visa approvals).
[url]http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/bulletin/bulletin_5759.html[/url]
This article shows a table that lists the Philippines with China, india, and mexico that the above video mentioned the state department was allocating additional resources to keep up with visa processing demand. Has Philippines ever been singled out among so many other countries before now?
[url]http://www.travel.state.gov/pdf/FY11AnnualReport-Table[/url]%20IV. Pdf.
Philippines issued about 132, 000 visas in 2011 relatively high compared to other asian countries given their relative size. Clearly China and india show larger number but they have much bigger population than PH (I need to check india population relative to PH since I'm not sure of the difference off hand).