Secular Café: Getting round US visa trouble

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Getting round US visa trouble Jun 5th 2012, 11:16 Anyone non-American who has had to go to the USA since the post-9/11 panic has probably got a nasty story to tell about the difficulties experienced with the immigration authorities and procedures. And it is likely to be having a bad effect on the US economy as key workers and entrepreneurs are badly hampered or even stopped from entering.So here is an attempt to get round some of the difficulties. Reminiscent of the UK's pirate radio stations in the 1960s and Rebecca Gomperts' abortion ship, the Aurora. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18327493 Quote: A Silicon Valley start-up called Blueseed wants to convert a cruise ship into a floating centre for foreign workers who cannot get visas to work in the US. The ship would sit in international waters roughly 12 miles (20 kilometres) off the California coast in order to bring foreign entrepreneurs closer to the technology capital.

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