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Ann Peters's avatar

The visa-bond invention is horrific. And it goes with ever-steeper fees for all types of visa paperwork, bigger and bigger, not to mention all the time lost submitting more and more paperwork and the threat of sudden and arbitrary deportation. People I know don't want to come here any more. International conferences simply will be held elsewhere.

Xplisset | Founder of XVOA's avatar

Yeah Ann and that’s the part that keeps running through my head…they’re acting like America is the only one with choices here, like everybody else has to keep bringing conferences, students, talent and money while we shake them down at the door and threaten to throw them out once they get inside. At some point folks just quit coming. Then we’ll act shocked when the world moves on without us.

Constitutional Psychology's avatar

This is so informative, I'm grateful I came across it today! Thank you for all the hard work!

Madeleine Bolger's avatar

So, do you have a written transcript of these updates? I can read the transcript in half the time and I do prefer text.

Xplisset | Founder of XVOA's avatar

You are looking right at it in the note you replied to. Click the link it takes you there. I don’t call these transcripts. They are a readable version of the show…i.e. Reader’s Cut.