This is a recounting of my journey to get my visa to the U.S..
I started looking for an immigration lawyer in August 2017, my visa was validated on February 2019 so the overall process took about a year and a half; but the holdups were not necessarily where you would think they were. I think when it comes to immigration, each case is very different and my case is definitively not a “normal case”; but I think I learned a few things along the way which I’ll try to share here. Note: The E2 visa went through drastic changes this year, please check with a lawyer before doing anything drastic. Fitzcarraldo
A movie where real life insanity transpires in the movie. Reading about the production of the movie felt like... watching the movie... Great piece of art, absolutely unique. I wish Fitzgerald was not holding a mirror showing a grotesque but very real reflection of my own soul... The Great Hack Interesting to watch a documentary that have nothing to show. Because the topic is Data privacy, they end up showing people moving from one place to another. The topic is an interesting one; when not muddled by the character dramatization those documentaries tend to lean into. Private Data ownership is mentioned and I think it is really the way forward on this. You can't control data; it is too easy to copy and transmit and once you know something it is impossible to "unknow" it. Data propagation is such an entropic process that there is no "rolling back" and building mini data fort knocks is doomed to fail in my opinion. People owning their data is the way forward; both economically and in term of responsibility. Should everything be shared and propagated on the Internet? I don't think so, but I think we should all be ready that it might happened. In that aspect, I really like the story of Jeff Bezos Attempt blackmail. Somebody stole picture of a naked Bezos with his girlfriend and thought that information had great value so he went and blackmailed Bezos. What Mr. Amazon did in response is that he just described the pictures publicly and by doing so remove all the value of the stolen pictures. And everybody went... ok; no big deal. If we educate ourselves about consumer bias, and marketing technics, our consumer data become less valuable. If we learn to accept all the quirks and weirdnesses and come with being part of the human species, our privacy data become less valuable. If we keep tabs on the Politics and spend the time to elaborate an opinion, our geopolitical data become less valuable. People say in the documentation that the rate of data today is higher than Oil. I think it is overinflated and that it is in our hand fix it. And yes, our data should belong to us, and if somebody want to use my data, I want a slice of the pie. |
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