In Thailand, all persons who plan to travel to the United States to establish permanent residency are required to have a US immigrant visa.
From my experience, it is not difficult for me to get one. I think that the important things that make Thais get a US visa are education background, work experiences from a well known company, and the amount in a bank statement. If you have all of these in good condition, it is not hard to get a visa. However sometimes it depends on your luck too. When you are interviewing for the visa, you have to have a confident to talk about your plan in staying in the United Stated and say something to show that you will absolutely go back to Thailand in the end.
To me, the immigration experience that I faced happened when I started to study ESL program three years ago. My friend and I transferred from an ESL school to a University. We were studying in Master’s Degree class in 4th week then we got an email that we lost our student status. How come? We did not understand how it happened. We found out later that the ESL school did not transfer our names to the University. And even the university where we were accepted, did not have our legal visa status as F-1 Visa status. Both schools never give us any information how the transfer process works.
We did not know that we have to send all documents back and forth between them. We thought that just gave all documents to new school then we are finished.
In the end, we had to pay about $500 to get the student status back. Both schools did not take any responsibility, they concluded that it was our misunderstanding of international students. We cannot do anything about it just pay for it and realize whenever this type of problem happens in the United States it costs a lot of money. :(
This article is real meaningful and i agree with sara vadee. It is not hard to get the US visa but we must have strong point ad reason why we are going to the US and do u think u will return back to your home country after you finish your study or any work? I feel so sad in one thing sara included in this article about the status and fined them $500. This was real injustice to them and it happened due to some universities don't take the problems of the international students seriously. i appreciate sara's article and it might help the international students very much in different ways and new coming students
ReplyDeletethis is a good tip for me when i transfer to another school.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you.. Just a little misunderstanding or mistake and we can have a lot of problems.. Not fair..
ReplyDeleteHere we go again: "the good always has to suffer for the bad." This is why the world is the way it is, right? Life is not fair.
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