"Take a step back and look at all the arbitrary requirements that some people make up in order to keep other people from being able to work within some arbitrary bounds."
I've been going through the US immigration system for the last 7 years. I am unfortunately intimately familiar with arbitrary requirements and have obeyed the law to the letter as I am a guest in a foreign country.
"The article is not supposed to be a guide for foreigners on how to be able to exit and enter the US. This is what the writing is about:
>I hope that my story can help fuel the need for positive immigration reform in a country that has given me so much to be thankful for."
While I sympathize with her plight, I think the lack of details really hurts her case and does nothing for the cause of immigration reform (which I am 100% in favor of).
Even if the US immigration process was reformed tomorrow their would still be rules, regulations and paperwork surrounding working here. Details allow us to sympathize and relate to her situation, they can provide a case for why laws should be changed. They can also help prevent others getting into a similar situation.
I understand the point you are making, and I could agree that more details wouldn't hurt. However, the problem is probably something like she wrote her birthday as DD/MM/YYYY instead of MM/DD/YYYY, or any other little detail like that. I don't think that she would have been allowed to reenter if there was something big.
>I am unfortunately intimately familiar with arbitrary requirements and have obeyed the law to the letter as I am guest in a foreign country.
But there are so many rules that obeying the law may become impossible. They could use a parking ticket as an excuse to deny you a visa, there is too much left up to your visa application reviewrs' discretion.
"But there are so many rules that obeying the law may become impossible. They could use a parking ticket as an excuse to deny you a visa, there is too much left up to your visa application reviewrs' discretion."
Sure but in her case we don't know because she provides no details as to what the nature of her technicality was. Plenty of people leave and enter the USA everyday on work visa's. If you're on a work or student visa its made clear to you when you can and can not travel. If she decided to leave the country despite knowing that she had issues with her visa paperwork thats a pretty different situation from someone being arbitrarily refused admittance because she was a "hacker".
I've been going through the US immigration system for the last 7 years. I am unfortunately intimately familiar with arbitrary requirements and have obeyed the law to the letter as I am a guest in a foreign country.
"The article is not supposed to be a guide for foreigners on how to be able to exit and enter the US. This is what the writing is about: >I hope that my story can help fuel the need for positive immigration reform in a country that has given me so much to be thankful for."
While I sympathize with her plight, I think the lack of details really hurts her case and does nothing for the cause of immigration reform (which I am 100% in favor of).
Even if the US immigration process was reformed tomorrow their would still be rules, regulations and paperwork surrounding working here. Details allow us to sympathize and relate to her situation, they can provide a case for why laws should be changed. They can also help prevent others getting into a similar situation.