Am I allowed to get a visa or use the VWP?

[TomCruise00 0]

Even if the bar is served, you will never, ever in your lifetime be able to use the VWP again and you will never, ever in your lifetime will get a non-immigrant visa to the U.S. again. This has nothing to do with the bar. The bar is an automatic "not a chance in hell" for 3 or 10 years. After the bar is served, you can apply for a tourist vis like anybody else and will be denied because of assumed immigration intend.

End of story.

The only visa you would be able to get after the bar is served is an immigrant visa. So if you are married to a U.S. citizen or have a U.S. citizen parent who files an I-130 petition for you, that would work. Visitor visa, student visa, work visa . . . never again as long as you live.

wow i never knew it was like that...

so pretty much my chances are marriage or a work visa; i better get on it and graduate university with masters.

or marriage but i know both are never 100% guaranteed

thanks guys i learned so much and just want to say that even though its not my fault, since i was brought when i was only 6 years old with parents, i still take the blame because i could've avoided this maybe and left when i was 17 or before 18 atleast

just wish this wont be on my record but i guess not

will work hard so one day i can come back and live here or who knows maybe i will like my new home country after a few years of adjusting!

[Boiler 48,081]

You may be eligible for the Lottery once your ban is up.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Frankly,

immigration reform and its forerunner, the DREAM Act or whatever they will name it when it's ready to be passed, is only a couple of years away at the very most, and you would have been the very first to benefit from it . . . had you not left.

The DREAM Act will pass because it costs an average of $11,500.00 to deport a single person and if you multiply that by 11,000,000 (illegal immigrants) you'll get a number in the neighborhood of $126,500,000,000,000.00, which is just an incomprehensible amount of money and an unacceptable burden on the American taxpayers. For that very reason alone, Uncle Sam will have to focus on deporting criminals while providing a path to residence on children and young adults to lessen the burden. It's really that simple: a matter of money, like anything else in America.

Or, you should have applied at the local college as an international student, gotten an I-20, left not later than 179 days following your 18th birthday--in which case you would not have triggered a bar--and return with a student visa.