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Refused a Visa at the U.S. Embassy

Refused a Visa at the U.S. Embassy Y I S HA An entire mornin g a hundred people jammed in the small r oom as if being smuggled inside a packed cont ainer when a pretty ballet student en ters the bored faces and slack bo dies lurch to attention I already have a bad fee ling even before my interview with the consular o fficer— of all the people granted a visa s o far there’s been only two ma les an elderly guy with his w ife and one so short he can’t see over the coun ter— America is afra id I mean really afra id of foreign men! Holy shit! my bearded intervie wer looks more like a Muslim terrorist th an me much more he doesn’t deliberate a seco nd before rejecting my applica tion must have recognized something in my e yes like one large ape detecting evil inten tions in the eyes of anoth er maybe a secret intention to immigra te— he’s eyeballing me for the sig ns maybe the great Li Bai wants to slip away to P ersia no fucking international joking around, please! 180 Stomping off I see the ballet girl was turned dow n, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Manoa University of Hawai'I Press

Refused a Visa at the U.S. Embassy

Manoa , Volume 31 (2) – Dec 18, 2019

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University of Hawai'I Press
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Abstract

Y I S HA An entire mornin g a hundred people jammed in the small r oom as if being smuggled inside a packed cont ainer when a pretty ballet student en ters the bored faces and slack bo dies lurch to attention I already have a bad fee ling even before my interview with the consular o fficer— of all the people granted a visa s o far there’s been only two ma les an elderly guy with his w ife and one so short he can’t see over the coun ter— America is afra id I mean really afra id of foreign men! Holy shit! my bearded intervie wer looks more like a Muslim terrorist th an me much more he doesn’t deliberate a seco nd before rejecting my applica tion must have recognized something in my e yes like one large ape detecting evil inten tions in the eyes of anoth er maybe a secret intention to immigra te— he’s eyeballing me for the sig ns maybe the great Li Bai wants to slip away to P ersia no fucking international joking around, please! 180 Stomping off I see the ballet girl was turned dow n,

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Published: Dec 18, 2019

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