05-13-2010, 12:46 PM
aliismc:
If you read the following from youser: "If the young man thinks he's got a 10 year travel/work visa and can just wander around looking for a job, he may be sorely disappointed and setting himself up for big trouble with the immigration authorities the next time he crosses the border. " you can see he is not trying to be helpful, but instead is making all kinds of assumptions about a 3rd party who isn't even the original poster.
I first politely asked people to not keep talking about the visas, and then youser just had to keep harping on it. Thus my second request that the thread not be hijacked any farther into visaland, a request you chose to take personally. If you look at the thread I did not respond in any way to your initial post, because it simply wasn't pertinent to my quest for information. Youser clearly isn't "just trying to help" he just wants to keep hammering away at his off topic point while throwing in some snide hyperbole about someone who didn't even post here.
I was asked to find out about work prospects for a mechanical engineer because I live here, and because my daughter knows from experience that job searches for Hawaii done over the internet do not closely resemble the actual situation. I am in no way involved in any visa research. I think someone with 2 masters degrees who has lived and worked internationally before can manage our visa system. These are two intelligent educated people who are trying to navigate how to reconcile having lives and families in two different countries while wanting to be together. The young man in question has never had as part of his game plan being an immigrant to the United States. He loves his own country, his family and his culture, and has excellent prospects there. He simply had the fortune (or misfortune according to his family) to fall in love with my daughter, an American citizen and Hawaii resident who needs to finish her degree at UHH. She asked me what kind of work there might be here for someone with such a specialized skill set and I passed on the question to Punawebbers.
What I absolutely did not ask for was endless advice about visas from various random people who post on the internet. Ed Smay is the only one who gave any reason to consider his information about visas credible. If visas are such an important issue why would anyone ever take advice about it from some faceless poster on the internet?
Tom, Carey, and Kapohocat all gave credible responses to the actual question I asked, based on their personal knowledge of the Big Island, for which I am very appreciative.
Carol
If you read the following from youser: "If the young man thinks he's got a 10 year travel/work visa and can just wander around looking for a job, he may be sorely disappointed and setting himself up for big trouble with the immigration authorities the next time he crosses the border. " you can see he is not trying to be helpful, but instead is making all kinds of assumptions about a 3rd party who isn't even the original poster.
I first politely asked people to not keep talking about the visas, and then youser just had to keep harping on it. Thus my second request that the thread not be hijacked any farther into visaland, a request you chose to take personally. If you look at the thread I did not respond in any way to your initial post, because it simply wasn't pertinent to my quest for information. Youser clearly isn't "just trying to help" he just wants to keep hammering away at his off topic point while throwing in some snide hyperbole about someone who didn't even post here.
I was asked to find out about work prospects for a mechanical engineer because I live here, and because my daughter knows from experience that job searches for Hawaii done over the internet do not closely resemble the actual situation. I am in no way involved in any visa research. I think someone with 2 masters degrees who has lived and worked internationally before can manage our visa system. These are two intelligent educated people who are trying to navigate how to reconcile having lives and families in two different countries while wanting to be together. The young man in question has never had as part of his game plan being an immigrant to the United States. He loves his own country, his family and his culture, and has excellent prospects there. He simply had the fortune (or misfortune according to his family) to fall in love with my daughter, an American citizen and Hawaii resident who needs to finish her degree at UHH. She asked me what kind of work there might be here for someone with such a specialized skill set and I passed on the question to Punawebbers.
What I absolutely did not ask for was endless advice about visas from various random people who post on the internet. Ed Smay is the only one who gave any reason to consider his information about visas credible. If visas are such an important issue why would anyone ever take advice about it from some faceless poster on the internet?
Tom, Carey, and Kapohocat all gave credible responses to the actual question I asked, based on their personal knowledge of the Big Island, for which I am very appreciative.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb