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You run a company in LA. Your visa is revoked. You show up at a different border shortly after with a novel job offer. Is it a genuine job offer or are you going back to run your company?


If that is all the evidence presented, then under the wild new concept of “innocent until proven guilty,” yes it is.


That's never been the standard at the border.

The starting assumption when crossing any[0] international border is that you don't have a right to enter the country, until you prove otherwise.

People from wealthy Western countries are generally used to just waving their passports and passing through, but that is not nor has it ever been some kind of automatic right. People are questioned and denied entry all the time, should they fail to satisfy the border official of their eligibility for entry under the exact terms of their visa (or the relevant visa waiver program).

I'm very sympathetic to the idea that border officials should have less discretion to deny people entry without very solid reasons, but if you start talking about 'innocent until proven guilty' at a border today, you're not going to have a good time.

[0] International agreements can of course modify this default assumption, e.g. Schengen.


ppl here are so freaking annoying and ignorant about how immigration works in any country.

you are right, for immigration its your responsibility to prove that you are not coming in to violate terms of entry. Onus is not them to prove that you are coming to work on tourist visa.


She expected to buy a return flight back to Canada, but was instead imprisoned.


Can you share the part of the article where this is mentioned or a source?


"stayed in Canada for the next few months, and was eventually offered a similar position with a different health and wellness brand."

When i google "holy water" first few links for me are some sort of THC infused liquid. But i think this person was working for one without thc?




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