Thread: Homeland Security, is it going too far?

Originally Posted by barneycg

That would be me, can elaborate on this I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by saying she wasn't a visitor ?

Your original post made it sound like you couldn't do any business on the visa waiver program and I was just clarifying was that you can enter the US for the purpose of business using the visa waiver program (at least if you are a citizen of countries taking part in the program such as the UK), it is just that journalism is specifically excluded.

Barney

The law provides for specific visa's for different purposes. First there are nonimmigrant visa's and then there are immigrant visa's. Immigrant for people planning on staying permanently and residing here. The nonimmigrant classifications are divided into various categories. Journalists are expected to come with the I visa plain and simple. Tourist visa's or if your from the correct country and can qualify for the visa waiver program is limited to tourism either for pleasure or business. Of course business or pleasure is a catch all and almost everything could be considered "visitor" but by law there are a whole set of tests to determine if you are a visitor or something else. She was a something else.

Oh, and to those who feel its no big deal joking about a bomb or hijacking at the airport and can't understand why someone who does that isn't treated with kid gloves I'll only tell you as the guy who had to deal with that nonsense I never did appreciate after working a 12 hour shift being called out at 3AM because some ticket agent or security guard heard a couple of people joking about that stuff.