(January 31, 2017 at 2:38 am)Tiberius Wrote: You keep assuming the visa was approved in 2015. I'm telling you that it's more likely that their petition was approved then. Read the article, they went to Jordan for interviews and medical examinations in December 2016. I can tell you that the interviews / medical examination happens *before* the visa is approved.
The only propaganda here is the misinformation you are trying to pass off as fact.
I was responding to this line in your post: "In late 2015 they were finally approved to enter the United States on an F-4 visa for brothers and sisters of US citizens."
That implies that they had the visas in hand. The article states that they only received the actual visas in December 2016 after 10 days in Jordan. But that brings up another problem. Despite the fighting in Syria they were able to stay safe and healthy and have money and means of travel and very reliable communications and freedom to zip in and out of Jordan and then all across the Middle East without any trouble.
The story is skimpy on the timeline but here's what I get:
1. They begin the F-4 visa process in 2003
2. In late 2015 they were approved for F-4 visas
3. They take a 10-day trip to Jordan in late December 2016 to finalize the paperwork, do the immigration interviews, and get medical exams.
4. They then leave Jordan (date unknown). They might have gone back to Syria or gone directly to Beirut by plane.
5. Then then catch a flight out of Beirut to Doha, Qatar, about 1,130 miles.
6. Once in Doha it's on to Philadelphia.
7. They arrive in Philly and are detained and put on the next flight out back to Doha.
The article does say that in 2013 one relative did make the trip and in December 2016 a sister and her daughter made the trip.
Now to me that seems like an unique tale for being in a war zone. There has to be a heck of a lot more to it than what's in the article. There's no way ordinary Syrians can do that in today's environment.
