http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/12/08/would-jesus-be-deported/ K.G. Schneider's blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else, since 2003. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:53:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/12/08/would-jesus-be-deported/#comment-1874 Michael Golrick Sat, 10 Dec 2005 02:25:43 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2005/12/08/would-jesus-be-deported/#comment-1874 I can do one better, about the Border Patrol. A colleague, the Library Director in a nearby town, is/was a Canadian citizen. She was here on a NAFTA visa, and had been for about ten years. She married a naturalized American citizen and applied for citizenship. No problem, right? She went back for a long weekend to visit her family outside Toronto, and then was refused re-entry to the US. Why? Well, it seems that no one had told her that if you leave the country when you have applied for a change in your status, you are "deemed to have abandoned your application." So there she was, in Toronto with three days worth of clothes, and her husband in Hungary! It took her over 2 MONTHS to get back to work. And this was someone with a job, and who does not have a Middle Eastern name or look. It amazes me. I can do one better, about the Border Patrol. A colleague, the Library Director in a nearby town, is/was a Canadian citizen. She was here on a NAFTA visa, and had been for about ten years. She married a naturalized American citizen and applied for citizenship. No problem, right? She went back for a long weekend to visit her family outside Toronto, and then was refused re-entry to the US. Why? Well, it seems that no one had told her that if you leave the country when you have applied for a change in your status, you are “deemed to have abandoned your application.” So there she was, in Toronto with three days worth of clothes, and her husband in Hungary! It took her over 2 MONTHS to get back to work. And this was someone with a job, and who does not have a Middle Eastern name or look. It amazes me.

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