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From: hatu@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Hanming Tu)
Subject: What's the procedure and requirement from B-1 to F-1?
Summary: B-1 to F-1  
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:01:00 GMT

Dear visa-experts: 

I have a friend who just came to the United States. He is holding a B-1 visa
to attend a conference. He has been admitted as a graduate student at OSU. So 
after the conference, he is ganna be a student who is required to hold F-1 
visa or other kinds of legal visas. The I-94 card my freind is holding stays 
that he can stay in the States  legally for three months with B-1 visa. My 
questions are:

1) Is it possible for him to change B-1 to F-1 or other visa with which he
   can  lawfully study in the university. The OSU has given him I-20 and he 
   has financial support from his relatives.
2) What is the requirements to switch from B-1 to F-1? Changing visa status 
   normally takes one or two months. My freind will start his studying in 
   Fall quarter. Can he be a student with B-1 visa during the waiting period 
   of changing visa? 

All responses will be greatly appreciated!

Regards!


H. Tu
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Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: hdeeg@triton.unm.edu ()
Subject: Re: VISA GURUS: Extending the Visiting Visa
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 03:18:27 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Aug22.042131.29991@njitgw.njit.edu> reddy@cis.njit.edu
(Kishore P. Reddy) writes: 
>Please provide the information regarding the extension of visiting visa 
>and the best and easy way to proceed. Please send me any info. or your 
>experiences in this matter. Thanx in advance.  
> 
>	- >	Kishore 

By 'visiting visa' you are probably talking about a B-1 visa. I am
currently going through the hassle to extend my student F-1 visa, and
it seems like the same form is used for B-1. The likely procedure is
to go to the next INS office with the passport and the I-94 arrival record
and complete the 'Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status'.
Filing this will cost $70, then you wait for their decision; which
might take a few weeks.

Good luck
Hans-Joerg Deeg
Xref: sparky alt.visa.us:182 soc.culture.indian:27815
From: jwettern@techbook.com (Joern Wettern)
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us,soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: transit visa for Germany
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:17:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: techbook.1992Aug12.161750.18561
Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 644-8135

In article <9208112208.AA20175@amygdala.cis.ohio-state.edu> thadani@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (Sunil Thadani) writes:
>I will be flying to India via Frankfurt next month.  I just came to know that
>now you need a transit visa for Germany to be able to change flights at
>Frankfurt airport!!  Even if you are not leaving the airport!! (I guess they
>needed to create jobs after the merger.)  The information I got from the German
>embassy in Detroit was that you need a transit visa if:
>Could you please cc your responses to me (thadani@cis.ohio-state.edu).
>
>thanks
>Sunil
>
>PS:  And I am just curious, why would a country want to have something like
>that?  I mean, trying to control who can use their airport?!!?

Easy.  If you are arriving in Frankfurt airport and are claiming that you
are a victim of political persecution, you have the right to stay in Germany
until the legitimacy of the claim is determined.  Due to the large number of
cases, the possibilities for appeal and an inefficient system, that might
take months or even years.  Since many people who are economic refugees are
taking that route, Germany has decided to screen people *before* they
arrive.  In your case that means extra hassle.  In the case of some
political refugees the concequences can be much more extreme.
-- 
  --  Joern Wettern
      jwettern@techbook.COM

Using Unix almost makes you want to own a Macintosh.
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: boaz@concerto.lcs.mit.edu (Boaz Ben-Zvi)
Subject: 2-year home residency waiver (was: J-1 question)
Reply-To: boaz@lcs.mit.edu
Organization: Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:47:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.032526.17656@cco.caltech.edu>, christos@cco.caltech.edu (Christos S. Christoforou) writes:

|> I am here with a J-1 visa that carries with it the 2-year home 
|> residency requirement. I am married to a US citizen.
|> Is there a way for me to acquire a residence status/citizenship
|> without having to go out of the US for the two years?
|> I know one way is to get the sponsor of the J-1 visa to
|> waive the 2-year home residency requirement.
|> What if that waiver is hard to get? Are there any other ways?

First, the sponsor has nothing to do with the waiver!  Second, your
marriage has very little effect on getting the waiver (I know of one
case that was denied a waiver in spite of being married to a US
citizen) !!

  The waiver process is as follows: FIRST you need to be in one of 
four categories:
1. Fear of persecution. or 2. Exceptional hardship (upon return to home
	country) -- This is usually rare, examples are people from the 
	PRC with more than one child or	people with a special disability etc.
	** you have to file form I-612 with the INS **
3. A U.S. government agency is interested in you -- also rare (I know
	someone who is trying now). 
	** whoever wants you have to submit an application to the approp.
	   govt. agency **
4. No objection statement (NOS) from your home country -- the most common way.
	** contact your country's embassy and ask them how to apply **

SECOND: If you got one of the above, the next hurdle is the United States
	Information Agency (USIA). The USIA sometimes just approves, and
	sometimes automatically (?) denies (for example, if you are on
	a Fulbright grant !!). 

THIRD: last is the INS, which acts as a rubber stamp to the USIA's decision.

If you want to know more you can write to me ... (disclaimers apply).

-- Boaz

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Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: LB.NKA@isumvs.iastate.edu (Nubi Achebo)
Subject: Sneaky ex-husband
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:13:51 GMT


A friend of mine has a serious problem and would need expert advice
from anybody in this group.  Here is the situation:  she came into
the United States with a K1 (fiancee) visa to join the husband.
This required that she gets a marriage certificate within 90 days.
Unfortunately this guy was abusive (there is a police report on
record) and she had to leave the husband.  She has a temporary green
card.  They are currently not living together.  She just received a
note from the immigration office that her husband has gotten a
divorce and they need her to state her case.  First the divorce was
without the girl's consent in spite of the fact that the guy knows
the whereabouts of the girl.

What can be done in this situation?  I think I read some new
regulation that gives a spouse the right to file for permanent green
card even when there is a divorce but there is proof of physical
abuse in the relationship.

Please e-mail responses to this address:

lb.nka@isumvs.bitnet
lb.nka@isumvs.iastate.edu


Nubi Achebo.
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: ylchang@mtu.edu (CHANG)
Subject: Re: What's the procedure and requirement from B-1 to F-1?
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 04:52:24 GMT

Hi!

   I have the same question. My sister want to come to the State and get into
 a high school. She has already gotten the I-20 from the high school, however,
 she couldn't get the F-1 visa. The visa she is holding now is B1/B2. According
 to the international student advisor in my school, it is not difficult for
 her to transfer B1 to F1 if she can stay here with me for about 6 monthes.
 Is staying in the State for 6 monthes with B1/B2 visa leagle or not? Is 
 there any one can answer me this question? Thank you very much.

-- Yu-Li Chang  
Organization: Masters student, Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 11:07:26 -0400 
From: Shvetank Shah <ss7k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: FICA Taxes -- Reimbursement?


on a 2400 line modem is a painful process.

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Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: krzys@icase.edu (Krzysztof Wlodarski)
Subject: Citizen question fix
Organization: ICASE/NASA Langley
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:49:32 GMT

Here is an e-mail message that ralates to my previous posting:

From aalis@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu Wed Aug 12 18:43:01 1992

In article <BsvnBp.C3E@news.larc.nasa.gov> you write:
>In article <1992Aug11.221108.16974@engage.pko.dec.com>, moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:
>>A friend of mine who is a US citizen is currently engaged to a non-US citizen. 
>>Out of curiosity how does marrying my friend affect her status/ability to
>>become a citizen?  I've heard everything from "no effect" to "automatic
>>citizenship".  I believe she has a "green card" if that matters.
>
>I think that the marriage will not speed up her getting U.S. citizenship.
>I believe that she will have to wait until it is 5 years since she has
>been admitted for permanent residence.  Actually she could file her 
>papers a little earlier to allow for processing of her application.
>
>Usual disclaimers apply.
>
>Krzysztof


I think the previous reply is correct that if you marry a US Citizen,
you will get US citizenship in three years instead of 5 years, and
if I am not mistaken, this will happen even if you are not a permanent
resident before you are married, eq F1 who marry a US citizen will
be able to apply for citizenship in three years.  (I read about this
3-5 years ago, so I dunno if it still correct now).

p.s. sorry, I tried to post this, but for some reason it won't do,
     go ahead and post it if u think it will be useful, thanks
From: gmamou@seti.inria.fr (mamou gerard invites)
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
Subject: Re: Who are J-1 sponsors?
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:16:05 GMT
Organization: INRIA * Rocquencourt BP 105 * F-78153 LE CHESNAY CEDEX* France

Hello,
J1 sponsors could be Embassys (Educational Mission) of foreign countries,
or National Agencies like AIPT/IEASTE, Maryland.
Thanks
-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: koller@i21s6.ira.uka.de (Dieter Koller)
Subject: Walking around a J-1?
Keywords: J-1, IAP-66
Reply-To: koller@i21s6.ira.uka.de (Dieter Koller)
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 09:39:15 GMT

Dear visa-experts:

I have a german citizenship and would like work on a postdoc positon
at the UC at Berkeley. So I called the american embassy (Konsulat)
and they told me that I need a J-1 visa. To get this J-1 I need
an IAP-66 from the employer (in this case the university).
The UC at Berkeley then told me that in normal case it takes
8 weeks to get a IAP-66. This is too long for me, because I would
like to start begin of october. But Berkeley has just started
to applicate for an IAP-66 for me, because they just recently got
the confirmation for the financal support of the project I would like
to work on.

1. Is there a possibility to walk around a (J-1) visa?

I was told from a friend who had the same problem, that it is no
good idea to go to the US as a visitor and wait (work) in the US
for the visa, because he had to go back to Germany to get his visa.
There was no other possibility from Canada or Mexico. But this
happened a few years ago, when germans needed a tourist visa for
the US. Is this still the same?

Reading this Newsgroup I'am very confused about the different kinds
of visa. Since I'am not sure how long I can (would like to) stay in
the US (1, 2 or more years), I've an additional question:

2. How often (long) can I renew a J-1 visa and can/should I convert
   the J-1 to another visa? Which one? What do I need?


Thanks,

Dieter


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Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: Citizen question
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:00:10 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.221108.16974@engage.pko.dec.com>, moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:
>A friend of mine who is a US citizen is currently engaged to a non-US citizen. 
>Out of curiosity how does marrying my friend affect her status/ability to
>become a citizen?  I've heard everything from "no effect" to "automatic
>citizenship".  I believe she has a "green card" if that matters.

Thanks to all who answered this.  The concensus is that if she already has
her green card there is no effect.

-Mike
From: kumar@ra.csc.ti.com (Sundeep Kumar)
Newsgroups: alt.visa.us
Subject: Re. going back from H1 to F1 -- any problems? experiences ?
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:31:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Texas Instruments

In Nntp-Posting-Host:Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:42:31 GMT
you write : 

>I need to know, if there is any hassle with INS while going
>from H1 to F1 status. Later on, if I want to take up a job and go back to
>H1, is there any hassle ?

Under the IMMACT 90 this is one of the ways to get a PCPT again after
a second degree/diploma. In general, if you get a PCPT, go on H-1 and then
come back to F-1, you are again eligible for a PCPT. I have known of people
who did this. It takes 4-6 (INS!) working weeks for you to hear about the
INS decision.
From: c1741@moncol.monmouth.edu (MICHAEL CARSON)
Newsgroups: alt.overlords
Subject: Re: QOTD again
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:05:59 GMT
Organization: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, N.J.  07764

In article <56599@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> jester@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jester) writes:
>jester@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jester) writes:
>:I feel that it is very sad that the US placed so much priority saying that
>:foreign oil was the reason behind the Iraqi militar action, but yet
>:we have not stepped in and upheld all the civil rights atrocities
>			    ^^^^^^
>I believe the correct word of stopped instead of upheld shoudl have
>been used in this sentence...silly me....
>
>:that are happening in Yuogslavia everyday.
>
>Jester

	Given the US's record in trying to stop civil rights atrocities,
"upheld" may have been the right word.

	Going into Yugoslavia would be a mess.  Vietnam II.  Its the same
type of fighting (guerilla) that we proved so inept at in SE Asia.  Iraq
was more of a "regular army" fight, more of what the US armed forces are
geared toward.
	I'm not saying we were right to fight in Iraq, but would be wrong
in Yugoslavia, I'm just saying it would be harder.  Right/wrong is a 
question I don't have a good answer for, but I tend to lean toward wrong.

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From: bahn@main.mndly.umn.edu (Christopher Bahn)
Newsgroups: alt.overlords
Subject: My vote for prez
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:15:10 GMT
Organization: the Minnesota Daily (U of MN Student Newspaper)

Personally, I think there should be a Helter Skelter party, with Charles 
Manson and Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme as running mates. Unlike Dan Quayle, 
these people would _really_ support Family Values...Manson Family values, 
that is.
Newsgroups: alt.abortion.inequity
From: txdv1@isuvax.iastate.edu (Angela KAY Rolling)
Subject: stumic cell
Reply-To: txdv1@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 08:07:54 GMT

all cells in an oganisum have 100% of the genetic code for that organisum.
this fact is what makes cloning posable. anamals tend to be complex enufe
that once certin cells have diferentiated the genetic codes for other
types of tishue structurs arnt used. Stumic cells are concidered to be
the best bet for human cloning as they are the most flexable of our
tisues. red and white blood cells are made by the marro inside our bones
marro cells are not blood cells and reproduce themselves as well. blood
cells are incapable of reproducing themselves. also a cell does not have
to have a coding to be twins. a scietist can take a zygote in its 
early stages and force it to split. that zygote did not have a pre-disposition
to be two people whin it started out yet do to the scientist it now will be.
that same zygote can be combined with another to make a single indevidual.
this has been preformed on mice. the also injectied a the zygote a white
mouse with cancer cell. the cancer cells became paret of the mouse. as 
they were not albino cells the showed up as black pachis on the mouse.
now how miny indeviduals are in the formentioned cassis?

ELF-KIN
From: knapp@spot.Colorado.EDU (David Knapp)
Subject: Re: Who is "righter"?  Or are all wrong?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:25:50 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.024136.552@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_woodsjl@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
>I am not inclined to force my own personal point of view on other people,
>however I do feel that both sides of the abortion issue are very open to
>criticism.  I want to address both sides with the faults of both.
>
>PRO-CHOICE
>
>If pro-choicers are into allowing people to make their own choices, then why 
>are some of these people always trying to out shout their counterparts? 

Because we are in danger of having them control our lives.


> Why is
>it that the people who take a pro-choice stance do not try to understand the
>spiritual arguments of the pro-lifers?


I understand them, and I accept them. If they believe abortion is wrong, I 
fully support their CHOICE to not have an abortion. I am, after all, PRO CHOICE.
Do you expect me to support them as they work to remove *my* freedom of choice?


>Why is it that many people who take the 
>pro-choice stance support free access to abortions, are against the use capital
>punishment?

Because there is a difference between killing an adult human being with a 
functioning brain, which holds within it a person, and a piece of developing
fetal tissue.

That's an old worn question I would think would be obvious by now.


-- 
David Knapp                                      University of Colorado, Boulder
Highly Opinionated, Aging  and                      knapp@spot.colorado.edu
Perpetual Student of Chemistry and Physics.
            Write me for an argument on your favorite subject.
Newsgroups: alt.abortion.inequity
From: stevens@eatdust (John Stevens)
Subject: Re: Another sentience que
Organization: Not bloody likely.  Where would I put it?
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:24:22 GMT

In article <1992Aug15.172041.28780@midway.uchicago.edu> eeb1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug10.002222.4549@zooid.guild.org>
>Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>>garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes...
>
>>I realise that you were explaining someone else's views.  I was merely
>>commenting on the person's reference to discussing non-personhood as though
>>it were a fact.  Or at the very least it seemed as though she had been
>>discussing it on that basis.
>
>My definition of "personhood" requires the ability for thought.  It's
>a biological fact that zygotes and embryoes and early fetuses lack the
>physical capacity for thought.

Just to avoid a misunderstanding here, just what time frame are you
refering to?  And how do you define thought?  I think you would be
surprised at just how early the brain of a fetus begins to function. . .

Certainly, many fetuses with active brains have been aborted.

>>Perhaps, perhaps not.  But, the question is ... what exactly is being
>>terminated when the pregnancy is ended?  Certainly, "something" or "someone"
>>goes along with the pregnancy as well.  Some people would call it a child,
>>others would say foetus, but *something* is destroyed when the pregnancy is
>>terminated.  The question for debate is - What exactly *is* destroyed here?
>
>A human organism without a fuctional brain.  That, m'dear, is simply a
>medical/biological fact.

Nope.  It IS a fact that many aborted 'human organisms' have functional
brains.  Not every single one, but many.

>--
>           Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.

And instead, they are safe, legal, way to often late, and occur in
frightening numbers.

>Pro-Choice                 Anti-Roe                      - E. Elizabeth Bartley

John
stevens@uswest.com