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Seems appropriate here since the current leader of the Democrats is a petulant baby. Slow, steady, corrupt and petulant… Biden rages that staff treats him like a child, new book claims: ‘Was John Kennedy ever babied like that?’ WASHINGTON – Despite his status as the nation’s oldest president in history, Joe Biden feels he is “babied” by his staff, setting off the 80-year-old’s Irish temper, according to a new book peeling back the inner workings of the White House. The gaffe-prone president’s staff regularly scrambles to mop up the messes Biden makes with off-script comments, but the efforts are not always appreciated, according to Franklin Foer’s “The Last Politician,” which went on sale Tuesday. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/biden-rages-that-staff-treats-him-like-a-child-new-book-claims-was-john-kennedy-ever-babied-like-that/ar-AA1gimfV

It is not just the greenies that do not consider consequences. The Democrats/Left have no clue as to the potential consequences from their policies. If these folks were engineers, they would all be fired for not deep diving a DFMEA.

As others have said, your only options are to try for a new F1 visa, or look for study opportunities elsewhere. To my knowledge there is no appeal when CBP finds a person trying to enter on a non-immigrant visa inadmissible. It is not clear if you were deported or allowed to withdraw your entry request. If deported a bar may be in place which may further limit your options in the near term.

Seems typical for today’s highly politicized scientific world. I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published The paper I just published—“Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California”—focuses exclusively on how climate change has affected extreme wildfire behavior. I knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature and its rival, Science,want to tell. This matters because it is critically important for scientists to be published in high-profile journals; in many ways, they are the gatekeepers for career success in academia. And the editors of these journals have made it abundantly clear, both by what they publish and what they reject, that they want climate papers that support certain preapproved narratives—even when those narratives come at the expense of broader knowledge for society. https://www.thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published

SB553. Skimmed it a bit, seems more geared at companies/businesses that instruct their non-security staff to intervene. I have also heard it touted that if non-security staff did intervene, there might be a fine. Not sure how it will shake out.

I agree, this sounds odd since you have not had an interview yet.

Heard about this. Democrats seem to be decriminalizing crime.

Hmm, seems the West is playing both sides still. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/05/the-wests-reliance-on-russian-nuclear-fuel-funds-moscows-war-a82356

True. True or false, didn't the West promise Russia that NATO would not expand after Russia agreed to German re-unification?

I guess being or acting green requires a lot of digging in the dirt. Global Lithium Shortage Could Severely Impact EV Makers In 2025 Establishing new lithium mines could support growing demand, but estimates from Rystad Energy show this would only delay the inevitable. Rystad's Vice President Susan Zou believes that lithium mine supply will increase by 30% and 40% this year and in 2024. However, the lithium supply chain could face shortages from 2028, remarked Zou. "In the next couple of years, though the lithium supply may stay adequate at a world level, regional supply imbalance is still inevitable," said the Vice President. "The global battery supply chain may find lithium in shortfall again approaching the end of this decade when the supply growth might not keep pace with the demand," she added. This may cause problems for automakers. If the above scenario were to happen, Zou notes lithium prices could skyrocket to 2022 highs, making battery production and EVs more expensive. Lithium carbonate prices increased to 600,000 yuan (approx. $82,300) in November 2022 - 12 times more than January 2021 prices. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/global-lithium-shortage-could-severely-impact-ev-makers-in-2025/ar-AA1g2UUU

It has more to do with salt water getting into the battery pack themselves. Most packs are fairly sealed against things like road salt, but they do have vents as pressures rise and fall within packs with temperature changes both diurnally and while charging. Now when a battery pack is submerged in salt water, that saltwater can push past the vents and fill the pack which could eventually lead to internal shorting/arcing and a thermal event. In the end, if you have an EV that has been submerged in any water (even freshwater contains conductive minerals that could be an issue), park it in an open area, and schedule it for a new battery pack replacement.

I was trying to illustrate that anything is better than sending a lot of young men off to be killed over the whims of a couple of leaders. There is no win-win here for either side. Not really sure a bankrupt nuclear superpower is great for the world, and in the end, the West will renege on any promises it gave Ukraine. Heck, the West already reneged on the promise made to Ukraine to get rid of their nuclear weapons. Doing nothing in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea was not ensuring Ukraine security. Simply sending weapons to Ukraine now does not guarantee their security. Btw, I did not say Russia's natural resources were a justification for the invasion. I was referring to those as a way Russia can weather any financial storm like they are doing now. With the massive programs of the West driving for more and more products requiring massive amounts of mining, and those same countries loathe to do that mining in their own backyards, it has to come from somewhere, and like the oil and LNG/CNG Europe is getting laundered through India, I suspect scarce raw materials will be treated similarly.

Yes, you should be able to use your current visas while the I129F is being processed. I believe this is the case. this may be an issue as once you enter the US with a K1, get married and apply for AOS, you will not be able to work, or re-enter the US until you get either the AP/EAD or GC. Yes, similar to the K1 route, but the spousal visa is far superior as the minute you enter the US with your valid spousal visa you are a GC holder/LPR. Good Luck!

Did the form indicate any other documentation that was missing? 212 (a)(7)(B)(I)(L) is fairly general. Was your fiancé's passport close to the 6 month expiration date? (B) Nonimmigrants (i) In general Any nonimmigrant who- (I) is not in possession of a passport valid for a minimum of six months from the date of the expiration of the initial period of the alien's admission or contemplated initial period of stay authorizing the alien to return to the country from which the alien came or to proceed to and enter some other country during such period, or (II) is not in possession of a valid nonimmigrant visa or border crossing identification card at the time of application for admission, https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title8-section1182&num=0&edition=prelim

From my reading, the two are related. You need to get a proper I134 affidavit of support submitted. Good Luck!

An end to hostilities, maybe an agreement the West will not violate? Heck, considering how corrupt both the Ukrainian and Russian governments are, maybe they can get together and decide how many oligarchs each country is allowed. In the end the manipulations by the West will not be advantageous to either country. It is already a stalemate with strategic offensive actions in localized locations, and sure this may bankrupt Russia, but even if that does, Russia is still loaded with massive amounts of natural resources they can exploit, and there are a lot of folks willing to buy them.

The Democrats/Extreme Left are really going after Turley hard. Regardless, I don't expect Obama to allow their release, he needs to maintain his legacy, and eventually folks will tie Old Corrupt Joe's corruption to Obama.

In this sense, I believe the question is asking about any previous visa applications where the visa was not granted. I know the wording is confusing, and later in the process after the interview, "refused" and "denied" do in fact have very different meanings. Here is another thread asking a similar question. In the thread there also appears to be different interpretations of the proper response, and apparently folks answered both ways and still made it through. My opinion is that even though this is asking about three distinct circumstances, if any one of them is yes, you should answer yes. Good Luck!

Black and White is fine, although photos might be better in color. Good Luck!

Two weeks to slow the spread? I hear Dr. First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden is positive again. Could scuttle Old Corrupt Joe's G20 trip I suppose.

Appropriate here. Mr. Sempa is right, most of the failures of the US military strategy over the past 40 years is from the neocons and their ilk. This includes what is happening now with Ukraine and Russia. Sure the West is giving Ukraine a bunch of advanced weapons, but didn't they do the same in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.? Last Gasp of the Neoconservatives Fortunately, neoconservatives are a dying breed in American politics. At least in the Republican Party. Having achieved relevance in the latter stages of the Cold War by breaking with the Democratic Party (where most of them came from) and supporting President Ronald Reagan’s policies that won the Cold War, the neoconservatives spent much of the post-Cold War world finding new “monsters to destroy” (to use the famous phrase of John Quincy Adams). They first picked Saddam Hussein in Iraq. But after the U.S. military achieved a quick victory on the battlefield in 1991 and forced Iraqi forces to leave Kuwait, the neoconservatives criticized the Bush 41 administration for not toppling the Iraqi regime. During the Clinton administration, the neocons were ardent champions of U.S. intervention in the Balkans. Then, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the neoconservatives persuaded the George W. Bush administration not only to retaliate against our enemies in Afghanistan but to declare a “Global War on Terror” and launch a crusade to democratize the Arab regimes of the Middle East. Bush 43, backed by the neoconservatives and using Wilsonian rhetoric, preemptively attacked Iraq, overthrew the heinous Hussein regime, declared “victory,” and then needlessly expended the lives of American soldiers and American treasure in failed efforts to remake the Middle East in America’s image. Last year Jeffrey Sachs wrote that Ukraine is “the latest neocon disaster.” He described the war in Ukraine as “the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement.” Sachs in that piece recounted the neocon track record of promoting disastrous military adventures that have resulted in diminishing U.S. influence abroad and, in the case of Ukraine, risking a wider European war. Sachs concluded that “[i]nstead of risking this disaster, the real solution is to end the neocon fantasies of the past 30 years and for Ukraine and Russia to return to the negotiating table, with NATO committing to end its commitment to the eastward enlargement to Ukraine and Russia in return for a viable peace that respects and protects Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.” https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2023/09/01/last_gasp_of_the_neoconservatives_977053.html

Even though this column touches on several areas, overall, it is all about the Democrat/Left assault on free political speech, and free political expression. In Democrats' incessant prosecution of Trump, progressives ignore free speech rights “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” Those words from philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche capture the fear that the struggle against the ideas and people we oppose will twist us into the very thing we hate. For Democrats, that moment has come in an age of rage against former President Donald Trump in particular and conservatives in general. It's an age when reason and restraint are strangers. In various areas, Democrats have embraced repellent concepts in the effort to silence or even jail their opponents. What is most striking is that legal arguments now used by the left were once used against the left. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/09/04/trump-banned-2024-election-democrats-fight-free-speech/70717503007/

How would we know the kill ratio considering the corrupt leadership on both sides? The news from the Ukraine and from Russia is simply propaganda when it deals with casualties numbers. I did find this interesting story (below), not sure how true it is, but if even partially true, gives an indication. There are similar stories and rumors occurring in Russia as well. I know the West, particularly the neoCons and elite DC insiders are playing this all about a land grab, or the reformation of the USSR strategy, but it really seems this is more like the split up of the former Yugoslavia. As similar as Ukrainians and Russians are, there are deep divisions which has lead to tensions ever since WWII. When the USSR broke up, Ukraine really should have been split into at least two separate countries to help alleviate the tensions, but alas, the best laid plans... In the end, there will be two countries with a lot of dead young men which is sad really when it is to simply appease a bunch of corrupt elite leaders on all sides. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rumours-of-a-general-mobilisation-swirl-in-ukraine-as-casualty-figure-mounts/ar-AA1fY79X

Hmm, sounds pretty racist.

When was he found guilty of rape? I know, you are simply using your Democrat/Extreme Left logic extending a civil case to make it sound like a criminal conviction. Whatever, @Pooky is absolutely correct, this is simply a Democrat/Leftist/MSM propaganda play to get the gullible on their side. Goebbels definitely would be proud.