Many of you will be aware that I have had problems with my visa. Paradoxically, not my visa for Mexico but my visa for the USA. As a UK citizen, I can enter the USA for 90 days under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) but there are certain rules I have to fulfil and I now know the regs inside-out. I have to have a machine readable passport (tick), be travelling for business, pleasure or transit (tick), be in the possession of a completed IW-94 (tick), not stay inside the US for more than 90 days (uh oh) and, if my ticket is onward and terminates in Mexico, Canada, Bermuda or any Caribbean Island, I must be a permanent resident of these countries (hmmm). It is unknown exactly how US immigration define their interpretation of the rules, but basically my current plans mean that I will overstay my welcome (despite only being inside the USA proper for a total of 5 hours between September and January) and will probably never be able to enter the USA on the VWP again. A bit inconvenient really.
More surprising is that my Cambridge Geography degree failed to inform me of the existence of this huge new country – the United States of Everywhere (USA, Mexico, Canada, Bermuda and the Caribbean Island). Next time I fly here, I’m going via Spain. In the meantime, i'm probably coming home sometime this term to clear this up.
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Can it be Mr Admin made an administrative error? *stunned silence* Hope all's well mate & God bless, David
umm yeah... there is this thing called umm ethnocentricism... grrr :-)
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