IMPORTANT PETITION to ease visa regulations

[Tim Jaques]

I'll agree that banning someone for life is a bit extreme, even by American standards of draconian punishment, where children get arrested for bringing a plastic butterknife to school with their lunch.  But she does seem to have gigs of some sort lined up -- "an expectation of earning  something for 
sharing her expertise here."  I know you have to have your visas all in order to do any kind of work for compensation down there, not just music.  This is what happens when you don't.

I think she can get a waiver.  Never listen to what American officialdom tells you as to what the law is -- the civil service in the US has to be the most uncivil I've dealt with anywhere.  Get an immigration lawyer and you can get this straightened out.  With American procedure, I've been told, it is a question of getting fitting into the right boxes.  If you don't fit into the box, you are refused even if you are Mother Theresa.  If you do fit in the box, you get in, no matter who you are -- witness the 9/11 terrorists, who all had valid visas.  Tell her to get the right lawyer, and in the future not to try to sluff through the border in this day and age.

 Timothy Jaques
Dalhousie, NB
"We live in a free country where people have as much right to express outrageous and ridiculous opinions as moderate ones."   Mr. Justice Ian Binnie, WIC Radio Ltd. v. Simpson, 2008 SCC 40.


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