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Dear Editor:
The recently proposed rules by the Immigration & Naturalization Service
for admission for a period of 30 days of the visitor aliens to the
United States is not just and fair. People from different countries of
the world come to visit the United States not only to see different places of the United States, but also to meet their relatives,
who are either US citizens or legal permanent residents. Mostly, the
retired parents visit the United States to meet their grand-children and usually stay in the United States for about 6 months with their family
members. Therefore, the proposed 30 day period of stay for the bearer
of a visitor visa in the United States to be endorsed at the time of
admission is too short.
At present, the United States ranks 3rd in the world to have tourists
from different countries of the world after France and Spain.
Furthermore, the United States is quite distant from Europe and Asia,
and when the tourists from these continents come to visit this country,
they spend more than 30 days, because America is a great country and it
has lots of tourist places to be visited, such as New York, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Washington, D.C., Las Vegas and Dallas. 30 days stay is not enough to visit these places. It is certain
that the tourists will not come to spend just for 30 days. The United
States will lose tourists to a great extent, if they are admitted for a
30-day stay only.
People say that it is very hard to get the US visa, because the aliens
have to take interview at the US Consulate, and it takes them a whole
day just for the interview. It seems that the inspecting Service officer at
the time of admission asks the aliens again different questions (some
kind of interview again) about his/her purpose of trip, period of
stay, financial resources etc., which, I am sure, will cause much
irritation and inconveniences to them. Furthermore, when they arrive at
airport from their long flight, they already are tired. Instead of
giving them relief from their travel fatigue and long queue at the
time of admission, further interview by the inspecting Service officer
will aggravate their pain.
Therefore, in view of the above circumstances, I would like to offer the
following solutions, which, I think, are the best that should be implemented:
1. The Visa Waiver Program must be abolished, because the terrorists
find it very easy to enter the United States under this program.
2. The privilege of changing status from B2 visa to Student visa also
should be discontinued, because the inspecting Service officer will not
be able to examine the alien so carefully at the time of admission as a
Consular Officer does. So, the student visa should be issued only at the
US Consulate.
3.The period for a visitor visa to remain in the U.S. should be granted
for a minimum 6-month period at the time of admission to those visitor
aliens who are over the age of 50. The other visitor aliens who are
below 50 years of age should be granted a minimum 3-month stay at the
time of admission. Extension for a further period of 3 months may be
granted to the both categories.
Sushil Babu
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