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• WassabiCracka commented on Icelandic tourist to US held for two days, shackled, deported -- over a ten-year-old visa mistake
  Well Cory, that CBP agent was incorrect. A B-1 visa is fine for the type of temporary business trips discussed here. I'm sure that's not much help to you given that it wasted two hours of your time, sorry you were treated like a terrorist. As another poster pointed out, I'm sure there is a way the person could have done his/her job without acrimony or distemper. I can't give you tips (and there are a lot your attorney isn't telling you about) but I can give you some non-legal ones: 1) look for an entry agent with a smile...
• bour3 commented on Icelandic tourist to US held for two days, shackled, deported -- over a ten-year-old visa mistake
  Just get your visas straight. It's not the government that's made flying a miserable experience....
• valerii commented on Icelandic tourist to US held for two days, shackled, deported -- over a ten-year-old visa mistake
  #64... Guess what? the world barely needs us anymore, everyone is about to unpeg their currencies/oil/etc from the dollar (which will leave us floating free in tremendous debt that no one wants to own), China's economy is approximately comparable with ours, as is roughly, the EU... so we are not the sole economic superpower. We are engineering ourselves towards economic suicide by your kind of attitude. Please get educated on this if you want to keep our standard of living! And .. please back up your statement that we are protecting anyone against terrorists. We've instead given them a nice...
• Icelandic guy commented on Icelandic tourist to US held for two days, shackled, deported -- over a ten-year-old visa mistake
  I've seen a few people here say that the woman refused the chance to call the embassy when she was initially detained but as I understand her blog ( http://eggmann.blog.is/blog/eggmann/ ) she says that she was told at first that she would later be allowed to call the embassy but they changed their mind and didn't let her do it after all. She never said why she didn't call the embassy from prison. Not that it would have mattered because at the end of it, she said that her friend who was travelling with her had contacted the embassy on...
• karikasery commented on Icelandic tourist to US held for two days, shackled, deported -- over a ten-year-old visa mistake
  I fully approve of the measures taken by each country for their own security but cavil at the way it is implemented by US officials. I waited for decades before I could be pursuaded to take a vacation in the USA, because I did not want to go through the demeaning VISA procedure that was the official policy of the US government. And when I finally decided to apply, a fat colored lady looking at me through a window typical for prisons told me that I was an undesirable alien. She decided that I would try to migrate to the...