And why are we excluded from the green card lottery? What is the point of Blair's toadying when this is how we are treated?
2006-09-13 07:21:12 · 7 answers · asked by airmonkey1001 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Embassies & Consulates
A friend of mine has recently been denied a visa because he doesn't have a job in the UK to come back to...
2006-09-14 06:01:58 · update #1
The British can get all kinds of visas, just not diversity visas.
If you don't have any American relatives and no prospects for marrying an American, you have many other options.
1) Get a job that's the government has deemed a shortage of, e.g. nurses.
2) get an employer to bring you over. Their lawyers will handle it, but it might be difficult securing a job at a US company.
3) get a Ph.D. If you can't get one in the UK, apply to US universities. It will be much easier for you to get a job with an American company once you are here in the US. Generally, if you have Ph.D, you company will be able to get you a visa to remain after your student visa expires.
4) become famous or renowned for something
5) become a fashion model
There have got to more, but this is all I can think of for now.
And look at it this way: even if the British were eligible for diversity visas, you probably wouldn't get one anyway.
As for your friend, if he were Latino or from Eastern Europe, he might not be able to get as tourist visa even if he had a job to come back to. The bottom line if that consular officers can deny visas WHENEVER they feel like it. Tell your friend to get a job and go back to the consulate.
2006-09-13 17:20:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Green Card lottery is supposed to help ethnic diversity. Plenty of Brits already come to America just as I did, which is why they don't do the lottery for them. I agree it would be nice if Britain and America had some kind of program for easy visa access. After all we are supposed to be best buddies, yet I had to go through all the same crap as someone from Iran would.
America would do well to tighten up immigration for unfriendly countries and loosen up for friendly countries.
2006-09-13 07:38:40 · answer #2 · answered by ZCT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brits are excluded from the DV lottery, along with several other countries, because they sent more than 50,000 immigrants to the US in the previous year. So you guys clearly get plenty of immigrant visas. And you don't need non-immigrant visas - you can visit any time you want just by getting on an airplane.
If this is discrimination, we're clearly not very good at it.
2006-09-13 07:25:27 · answer #3 · answered by dognhorsemom 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We British voters come from a greater western democratic us of a with a stable financial gadget and as such are unlikely to be attempting enter the U. S. illegally and paintings there. we've needless to say shown ourselves to be honest in this appreciate and could continuously circulate back abode as quickly as we are meant to, in assessment to various people from different countries (that's why they nevertheless want visas) . . . tbh very few Britsh voters could prefer to stay illegally interior the U. S.. the conventional of life could be lots decrease over there (as an unlawful) than for an identical individual back abode interior the united kingdom , no get right of entry to to healthcare and so on, decrease minimum salary, devalued dollar. we've no longer something to income from unlawful get right of entry to into the U. S.. people from coming up countries, in spite of the fact that, probable do as even being undesirable interior the U. S. is extra appropriate than being undesirable back abode.
2016-11-07 06:13:46 · answer #4 · answered by porterii 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
American racism. Clinton amnestied 93,000 Mexicans just before INS sent back 13 Irish.
Congressman Solomon Ortiz and the Hispanic Cuacus may be behind part of this as they are trying to amnesty 20 million illegal Mexicans. They are probably afraid Brits won't become resentful Democrat welfare slaves.
By the way, you should be a little more respectful toward the only leader in your hemisphere with a set of balls.
2006-09-13 07:38:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
British citizens don't need a Visa to get into US.
The green card Lottery the US authorities stablish anually the requirements to apply, and the nationals that can or can't apply according to what ever rules they set.
2006-09-14 14:43:33 · answer #6 · answered by Forza Catracha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cos we are all potential terrorists!
2006-09-14 11:52:59 · answer #7 · answered by catrin l 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋