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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • Border agents usually ask where you will be staying for the duration of your trip. They can also ask how you will be supporting yourself. She likely answered honestly and said she will be doing chores for host families in exchange for accommodation, which they probably interpreted as her working. Normally, a typical tourist will have hotel/airbnb reservations and border agents can ask to see those as proof.


  • Most countries are pretty strict with what you are and aren’t allowed to do while on a tourist visa. For example, tourists are generally not allowed to work or earn income while visiting, you need a work visa for that. Now I’m not 100% versed on how work is defined in this case, but they must have interpreted her chores-for-accommodation setup as work. Not excusing what they did to her, just providing context on the restrictions of tourist visas. I’m sure a lot of people have been doing this for a while, and the current immigration climate is likely why they’re just flagging it now.







  • I just saw a video a couple of days ago about one of those children who was adopted by an American family sometime in the 70s. The family gave him up to foster care within 6 years like he was a toy that you could just throw away when you don’t want it anymore. The worst part is they didn’t file his paperwork correctly so he was never naturalized. When he tried to correct it as an adult, he was deported instead because the background check that was triggered found a previous conviction as a teen (broke into his abusive 3rd foster family’s house to get his things). He couldn’t assimilate back in Korea and ended up moving to Mexico because the culture was more familiar.