#400 Visa

[immigrationlawyerperth]

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[didnt-hear-cold-as-you-live]

Bestie fr like I get what you’re saying but not everyone can just pick up and move to some other country. The reason your in Australia rn was because it was your last chance to take advantage of this program. The main barrier to getting out is that we need to be fucking employed - my best friend moved to Canada for a year got a work permit and a job and everything and still had to come back to the states because they wouldn’t renew his work visa. He spent his entire life savings including his retirement shit from his US work, AND went into debt to try to keep the dream alive. So don’t act like we’re staying here because we’re too dumb to get out that’s just fucking insulting.

I never said anyone was staying here because they were too dumb, and the “almost” no reason bit I said, the “almost” was due completely to financial in my mind.

Now, I can’t tell people what to do with their money, and everyone is different and obviously the US is like an abusive relationship in that the nature of the country makes it extremely hard to leave. It’s really hard if you’re in a situation that prohibits you from having any savings, as is the case with a lot of Americans, but I also know a lot of people who DO have a lot of savings and are like “America SUCKS and is EVIL” and just. Still don’t leave, which is what I don’t understand and never have.

I also can’t speak on the Canadian visa process, because I haven’t done it and don’t care to, but from what I’ve heard knowing people who have dealt with this it is EXTREMELY hard to get a visa there, very adjacent to the experience people have trying to come to America (or I think the UK is similarly difficult). Conversely, for Australia (and many other countries) it’s pretty fairly straightforward because the country simply has pretty big worker shortages and is in ‘growth’ mode. I’ve met dozens and dozens of people during my travels here who have emigrated here and had a really reasonable and straightforward (albeit expensive and annoying) experience. So like, while that obviously is total dogshit what happened to your friend, but the plus side is that not every country you’d ever leave America to go to is like that. It just takes a lot of research. My whole point was really just that leaving - even just temporarily - is very very very possible.

[npzlawyersforimmigration]

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[system-of-a-feather]

DID and Recovery

Honestly, I think something that I don't think I've seen talked about that I've only now really reflected upon and put into words myself, is just how much living DID - or at least DID with heavily elaborated parts and just a general complex / polyfragmented structure - is just how much of your life is Actually Just Internal and its not really something I've noticed until I've begun to operate in a fused manner and more grounded manner

Because growing up, I didn't really exist in the real world. I - in my many different parts and forms - occasionally existed in the real world, engaging in it like it's a job, a video game, a challenge, a maintence task, or what not. Even as a fused whole, I never really lived in this world. Every part of myself only "visited" and "checked in" whether they explicitly were aware that's what they were doing. I was just bouncing between 400 Visas and names. Living in this world never meant anything to me much more than either a place of pain, a place of work, a fun game, a challenge, a hobby, a task, etc.

My childhood was internal. Almost all of my parts, our childhood was internal. Our memories of our childhood relates to how it was internalized internally. Our traumatic memories of childhood relates to how it was recorded internally and the narrative we attributed to it. Our internal experience was more important than our external experience. Our family was not our family as much as our situational family that we existed around - our real family were the parts we were aware of during that time. Riku's siblings weren't their siblings. They were "our" siblings to which "our" didn't really exist. Lucille was Riku's adoptive sibling.

So much of our past and our history is so hard to understand if you try to talk about it in a manner that is grounded only to what was happening externally, because the experiences we had externally mean much much much less to us and how we were shaped than the internal experience. The external facts inform what was happening internally, but if I were to talk about my oldest sister's psychological abuse, it would mean a lot less than if I talked about the internal ramifications and depiction and understanding of it.

And so even now, as we've healed massively, we've really got at least 10 fully elaborated different versions and understandings of our lives. We've lived entirely different narratives and at the same time they are all me, but none of them were really here, in the real world, existing or caring about anything other than either our specific hobbies / interests and our "duties"

The past 8 years was all about us learning to really live and engage in our internal world more intentionally and mindfully and productively, learning one another and learning our overall history; the past 3-4 years has been largely us learning to figure out how to exist in a world we have never genuinely existed in. And I think our fiance played a large rule in helping us with the "culture shock" and keeping faith that we could one day kind of find our place in "this world" that doesn't feel like a fraudulent lie or a forced face.

I think its only been this past year or so since we've been in functional multiplicity, final fusion, and/or living as a fully fused multiple have we ever actually **LIVED** in this world.

And I find that it's kind of hard to explain my own life story to those that don't understand and/or can't fathom what it means to very much not live in "this world" but you know, that's okay. People don't necessarily need to fully understand it, because these days that depth of understanding isn't even really necessary. I think its just important that space is held, respected, and understood as I learn to navigate my life in the real present real world because honestly, I want to live here. I want to be here. I want to be present and exist in the world I HAVE to exist and learn to love it. I've spent most of my life visiting this world and doing maintenance so I could sustain my internal space, but honestly, I really would love to live in both. Find joy in both. Make the maintenance not "maintenance" but just part of living.

That's all just to say that living and existing in the world when your entire understanding of self and history is based on your internal world and experiences that you had in relation to that internal world that no one can really see or even properly fathom, it's all just an interesting, unique, and challenge experience that I don't see talked about much.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Something that you might have discussed that I just missed for AEIWAM - if Hell is basically Soul Rehab for souls that aren't Contributing Properly, then why does having high spiritual energy mean that you're more likely to go to Hell? Are they basically bleeding off excess energy from those souls, or?

Yes and no?

1. Hell is rehab for Souls that would damage the cycle of reincarnation*specifically*. People only go to hell for two* reasons: they do a lot of harm to others (aka Bad Karma), or when reincarnating them would throw the balance between worlds off (High power)

Basically, there needs to be... Approximately the same amount of spiritual energy in the living world, spirit world and Hell. So when an exceptionally powerful spirit like say, a Captain, dies and moves onto the next plane, there sort of needs to be 'room' for the incoming powerful soul. There usually isn't, and also the Life Machine that generates reality needs to eat, so Hell solves both problems by having really powerful souls come to hell and vent power for a while until they are only about as strong as a regular soul, and then send them back to the living world.

2. So, yes, the more powerful a soul, the more likely they are to go to Hell, no matter how they behave in the living or spirit world.

For people on the level of Gotei-13 captains, it's pretty much guaranteed, unless they manage to do something bizarre like drain all of their spiritual energy into a magical barrier or leave it stored in the Family Cursed Artifact (looking at you, Tsunyashiro clan). Lieutenants stand an estimated 50/50 chance (unless they learn Bankai in which case, again, guaranteed), and all seated officers are at some increased risk.

3. How they behave while alive still makes a difference though.

See, Hell in AEIWAM isn't *necessarily" The Bad Place. Souls cause harm to other souls for TONS of reasons that aren't evil: mental illness, getting caught in terrible circumstances, genuinely trying to make the world a better place and severely fucking up, and sometimes it's just bad luck. Hell isn't there to punish, it's there to figure out what went wrong that this soul hurt so many people, and try to fix it.

Sometimes that's things like "magically removing the ego and putting a different sized one in", sometimes it's "cognitive behavioral therapy" sometimes it's "you're not a bad person but you did fuck up so you gotta do a really boring and gross task that helps restore the ambient vibes of the universe for 400 years to balance out the damage" sometimes it's "actually, we can trust you to do good deeds, here's a visa to the living world to dole out minor miracles to anyone who needs it".

In AEIWAM, the only difference between a devil and an angel is that the angel does field work and the devil does back office.

So sure, all the captains are going to Hell at some point. But if they did their best while alive, they more or less get to skip rehab and have Free Time until they're weak enough to leave. It fun, actually! Captains and the like get assigned a Demonic Personal Assistant and told to go have fun, don't break anything, and are turned lose to go adventuring, get married, take up farming and/or stamp collecting or whatever they desire.

*note from above: there is a third "legitimate" way to enter Hell: Superlative Karma.

It's RARE, but once in a while a soul so vastly improves life for everyone else they end up with such extremely good karma that they run the risk of unbalancing the planes just by sheer vibes clash. Superlatives are plucked out of the cycle of reincarnation by Hell to help the spend some of that karma having a very literal HELL OF A GOOD TIME.

4. And so, all the planes of the wheel lived in harmony, UNTIL THE BOURGEOISIE ATTACKED.

Problem is, about... 1500ish years ago, a bunch of the noble houses got together, tricked The Monk Who Speaks The Name into letting them into the house of the guy that maintains The Life Machine, they very literally butchered The Divine Tech Support, and used parts of his body to jam up the wheel of life, because they thought they could be God better than God.

Dumbasses.

One of the things they jammed was the Exit from Hell, so now only a few people can leave at a time and the backup is threatening to unbalance the entire wheel now, so Hell is also being VERY VERY CAREFUL to not let any of the Captains die until they've gotten enough souls out that there is effectively 'room' for the Captain.

So yes. Higher spiritual power means a soul is guaranteed to go to Hell, at least for a while-but it also means they won't be going there for a long, LONG time.

[xxatinyminionxx]

Getting to Know You - Chishiya Shuntaro

Warnings: Smut, degrading, dom chishiya x sub reader, gender neutral, implied manipulation, safe sex yay, slight noncon(?), mild character spoiler(?)

Word Count: 400+

A/N: I’ve been thinking about this all day… 🧍‍♀️

**Disclaimer: This is based off the Netflix adaptation of Alice in Borderland.

You managed to get Chishiya on top of you and between your spread legs. It took some observing of each other, and you both found one another intriguing yet safe. As you know, in the Borderlands, he doesn’t let his guard down ever…yet he has been letting it down occasionally like right now.

You moan into the palm he has over your mouth, letting him use you as he desires. His dick fills you up with every stroke and he gets at the right spots. Your eyes remain open, watching him being a serious, calculated man, thrusting himself into you. You see the slightest smirk curl at one corner of his mouth as he drives you crazy. He’s enjoying this.

Like last time, you expect him to pull out when he’s satisfied, leaving you to cum by yourself…but several minutes pass and he hasn’t faltered with his movements.

You reach down to start pleasuring yourself as you usually would, getting off on your hand quickly. Then your hand is grabbed, placed above your head, and replaced with his. You shiver at the sensation of his hand on you, seemingly working you up to an orgasm on his own.

“Does it feel good?” He asks in his low, quizzical voice.

Your face scrunches up at his teasing as if implying the words ‘shut up’, which automatically means ‘yes’ in Chishiya’s terms. If it weren’t for him fucking you so good, you would have protested harder than just making a face.

“Is my toy going to cum?” He continues, watching you with a confident closed lip smile that has you reaching your orgasm in no time. Your back arches and your eyes squeeze closed, trusting Chishiya with your body in that moment. You shake in his embrace, his thrusts slowed but still going until you’ve calmed down.

“Mhm, it’s nice getting to know you, Y/N…” He pulls out, rolls off of you, throws the condom away, and starts picking his clothes up off the floor.

You sit up knowing well what he means. He sees him having sex with you as your weakness. “Just because I’m willing to cum? You should try it sometime, it relieves stress.” You throw back at him.

He turns his head towards you after getting dressed. He crosses his arms and scoffs. “Sounds like you need it more than I do.” Without another word, he leaves the sheltering area you built together most likely to complete another game to extend his visa—leaving you in a mess of your own cum.

—

©️ 2023 xxatinyminionxx. All Rights Reserved.

[flammentanz]

Der 09. November - Der Tag der Deutschen

Kaum ein anderer Tag vereint so viele, für unser Land historisch bedeutsame Ereignisse wie dieser

09.11.1848 - standrechtliche Hinrichtung von Robert Blum

Der republikanische Abgeordnete der Frankfurter Nationalversammlung wird, obgleich er unter parlamentarischer Immunität steht, bei Wien erschossen. Seine Hinrichtung gilt als Symbol für die Niederschlagung der Deutsche Revolution 1848/1849 durch die reaktionären herrschenden Kreise.

09.11.1918 - die Proklamation der Republik in Berlin

Während der Novemberrevolution 1918 ruft von einem Fenster des Reichstagsgebäudes aus der sozialdemokratische Abgeordnete Philipp Scheidemann die “deutsche Republik” aus. Drei Stunden später proklamiert der Sozialist Karl Liebknecht vor dem Berliner Stadtschloss die “Freie Sozialistische Republik Deutschland”.

09.11.1923 - Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch in München

In München putscht ein bis dahin unbekannter rechtsradikaler Demagoge namens Adolf Hitler im Verein mit dem reaktionären General Erich Ludendorff gegen die Weimarer Republik. Sein Versuch, die rechtsstaatliche Ordnung analog zu Benito Mussolini in Italien durch einen “Marsch auf Berlin” zu beseitigen, scheitert vor der Feldherrenhalle am Odeonsplatz durch den bewaffneten Einsatz der bayrischen Landespolizei. Vier Polizisten, ein unbeteiligter Passant und fünfzehn Putschisten sterben. Erstmalig werden die Nationalsozialisten einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit bekannt.

09.11.1938 - Reichspogromnacht

Die Novemberpogrome mit etwa 400 Todesopfern, 1.406 zerstörten Synagogen und jüdischen Gebetsstuben markieren den endgültigen Übergang von der gesellschaftlichen Diskriminierung der jüdischen Bürger im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland zur offenen Gewaltanwendung, die schließlich im Holocaust endete.

09.11.1989 Der Fall der Berliner Mauer

Auf einer bis dahin eher langweilig verlaufenen Pressekonferenz verliest das SED-Politbüromitglied Günter Schabowski gegen 7 Uhr abends auf Nachfrage des italienischen Journalisten Riccardo Ehrmann einen neuen Entwurf über Reisemöglichkeiten für DDR-Bürger.

Der etwas umständliche Wortlaut ist folgender: “Privatreisen nach dem Ausland können ohne Vorliegen von Voraussetzungen (Reiseanlässe und Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse) beantragt werden. Die Genehmigungen werden kurzfristig erteilt. Die zuständigen Abteilungen Pass- und Meldewesen der der Volkspolizeikreisämter in der DDR sind angewiesen, Visa zur ständigen Ausreise unverzüglich zu erteilen, ohne dass dafür noch geltende Voraussetzungen für eine ständige Ausreise vorliegen müssen. Ständige Ausreisen können über alle Grenzübergangsstellen der DDR zur BRD erfolgen.”

Der Reporter der “Bild”-Zeitung Peter Brinkmann fragt nach, ab wann dies in Kraft trete. Schabowski, der über den genauen Inhalt der neuen Regelung, die eine Sperrfrist beinhaltet, nicht informiert ist, da er bei deren Beschlussfassung nicht anwesend war, antwortet daher: „Das tritt nach meiner Kenntnis – ist das sofort, unverzüglich.“

Während das Fernsehen der DDR in nüchternen Worten über den Fakt der neuen Reisemöglichkeiten informiert, ist für Hanns Joachim Friedrichs während seiner Moderation der “Tagesthemen” die historische Bedeutsamkeit sofort ersichtlich: “Die DDR hat mitgeteilt, dass ihre Grenzen ab sofort für jedermann geöffnet sind. Die Tore in der Mauer stehen weit offen.“

Im Laufe des Abends versammeln sich immer mehr Menschen vor den Berliner Grenzübergängen und verlangen friedlich aber lautstark das ihnen neu zustehende Recht.

Eine halbe Stunde vor Mitternacht befiehlt Oberstleutnant Harald Jäger, der zuständige Leiter der Grenzübergangsstelle Bornholmer Straße, von seinen Vorgesetzten mit einer Entscheidung allein gelassen und mit den Menschenmassen vor der Grenzübergangsstelle konfrontiert, eigenmächtig, sofort alle Kontrollen einzustellen und die Schlagbäume zu öffnen. Bis Mitternacht folgen alle weiteren Berliner Grenzübergangsstellen seinem Vorbild.

Kein einziger Schuss ist gefallen, niemand wurde verletzt. Tausende einander völlig fremde Menschen fallen sich weinend vor Glück in die Arme.

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Collected Information about the Bangkok Concerts

This is a post collecting information and sources about the concerts held by the Zhang Sanjian scam gang on May 10th and 11th. I will keep this updated as more information comes out. Please let me know if you have any questions, corrections, or additions.

[Masterpost of my informational posts about the situation]

Lead-Up

The earliest account to promote the concert was a planted fan trying to collect information from other fans in group chats, not an “official account”. This was on April 10th, only a month prior to the day the concert would be held. Accounts officially associated with the scam would not start promotions until April 20th.

Someone who contacted the venue on April 20th was told that the hall had been booked for 05-11 but that the venue could not disclose who it was for.

On April 22nd, the Instagram made a post announcing the ticket sales using a promotional photo from 2021 that had been made for the concert the real Zhang Zhehan had been planning prior to 813. This post did not include a link for purchasing; including links to purchases increases the chance of Instagram checking an account for fraud activity.

The production company for the concert is partnered with CAPA.

Seat prices went up to 16,000 baht ($465 USD / 3200 RMB) and went on sale on April 22nd. As a comparative, the BTS member Suga held a concert with VIP tickets pricing at 6200 baht.

Within hours, scam believers were saying that tickets had sold out, but on the actual purchasing site they were instead listed as not available (ie. reserved for sale by scalpers). On May 3rd, these reserved tickets that had not been sold were made available again with less than half sold.

On April 23rd, it was announced via the Instagram that an additional concert would be held on 05-10 due to “popularity”. (As I write this, I realize that it’s odd for them to book 05-10 rather than 05-12 since it means those first comers who bought tickets for 05-11 would not get to be the first ones to see “him”.) Tickets for this became available the following day and “sold out” within ten minutes only to become available again; it’s likely this was just a glitch. 

On April 24th, a promotional video was posted for the concert using only footage from 2021 (same context as mentioned above).

Some tickets had been available as a “tour package” through a company that had a history of scamming customers. On April 26th, the tour package’s name was changed then deleted from the company’s website. On April 30th, the Taobao shop selling these packages was closed without refunds and over 400 people who had made purchases had their information leaked. Some people who purchased these packages were later left stranded at the airport for hours when they arrived.

On May 5th, the Weibo Supertopic used by scam believers, which had been filled with people reselling tickets and encouraging others to fake information for travel visas, was deleted. The following day, “official” accounts directed users to a new Supertopic that was created less than 15 minutes after the previous one disappeared despite it taking 1-3 days for Supertopics to be approved. This new Supertopic was made private on May 9th then deleted as well on May 10th.

On May 6th, photos were posted to the Instagram of “Zhang Zhehan” in what appeared to be Thailand. The following day several photos and a video were spread of “chance encounters”, originating from accounts that did not belong to fans.

The scam gang requested that people who had bought VIP tickets provide their home addresses so they could be sent tshirts and light sticks, four days prior to the first concert date. Have fun getting doxxed, I guess.

On May 8th, a new song was released to streaming sites by the scam gang despite it being only two days before the first concert. As a comparative, for his mini-concert to promote his Another Me EP in October 2020, Zhang Zhehan released only two of the three songs for streaming prior to the concert, leaving the third song 不说 to be debuted at the concert before releasing for streaming.

On May 9th, several photos and a video were posted by paparazzi of the venue being set up. It was noted that workers present in these photos were fully dressed despite there being a heatwave with outside temperatures climbing to over 40°C; it’s uncommon for AC to be on during set up, though not impossible.

On the same day, a figure fully covered in sweats and a hoodie was filmed entering the venue for rehearsals. Again: heatwave. 

May 10th

The venue looked less than half full less than ten minutes before the set start time.

A collection of some photos that look obviously off: [1] [2] [3] [4] 

Chinese CPFs keeping track of things concluded that three different impersonators were likely used, with one possibly being a woman. There were visible differences in the nose, jawline, eyebrows, Adam’s apple, butt, and stature. Furthering this, people watching reported that the costume changes were remarkably fast and there were no breaks over the course of 20 song performances (3 hours).

It’s quite likely that the cameras used for the screens inside the venue were using deepfake tech to correct for these mistakes. Yes this can be done live. It was noticed that the screens seemed to noticably lag more than is standard (example, comparison to another concert) and occassionally jumped.

Some of the audience members visible in photos look quite unexcited to be there. It’s possible that people were hired to fill empty seats, especially given that so many were left unsold that they decreased the number of seats physically present in the venue. A number of people looked to be in quite a hurry to leave afterwards. There is hearsay that some of them may have been students who were paid to attend. [translated chatlog between Chinese fans]

About an hour and a half after the concert started, the bought hashtag #Primordial Theater# suddenly appeared on the general Weibo hotsearch, reaching #14 before completely disappearing ten minutes later. Coincidentally, the Weibo administration account made a post shortly afterwards warning about celebrity impersonation fraud.

Around this time, all photos of the concert posted by Ranyi, one of the “official” accounts, were removed by Weibo and the account was later banned for violating community rules. Similar photos and a video were also removed from Xie Yihua’s Weibo accounts.

A whaler who made a post that she shook hands with him at the concert forgot to change her VPN to Thailand, with it instead saying she was in Japan. 🤡

There are rumors that some whalers who attended said it was fake and closed their accounts, I haven’t seen direct evidence of this yet. Also a rumor that one went to the police. Some whalers were reportedly afraid to speak out about what they had seen at the concert because they had given the scam their personal information.

May 11th

There was significantly less posted footage and discussion of this day. Many people who had attended gave excuses such as phones being too low on battery to film, only having blurry photos, wanted to capture the moment with their own eyes, etc.

Additional photos that look distinctly off: [1] [2] [a whole collection] (Here’s an example of full-face prosthetic makeup btw) 

Videos show that barely anyone in the audience appeared to be singing along to some songs, including Surround.

Comment about the vocals from a trained musician: “The voice doesn't feel open, it feels like it's covered with a layer of veil. Generally speaking, the voice is not clean, and secondly, the breath is not stable, and the voice is obvious. Trembling, as well as out-of-tune and treble, the treble sounds very laborious, and the out-of-tune is also sandwiched between the two notes, and the way of vocalization is not right, it is all in the throat, singing like this is easy to hurt the throat and make it hoarse.” (mtl) 

[Video comparing the singing to Zhang Zhehan’s]

A video and group photo showing Xiao Yu were passed around, with him being visibly too short in relation to “Zhang Zhehan” in the photo.

Again, many of the photos posted by Xie Yihua were removed by Weibo.

VVIP ticket holders (on both days) were able to take photos with Zhang Sanjian afterwards:  -  Reports from them say that Zhang Sanjian was quite touchy-feely and eager with hugs (😰). If you look at old photos and video of the real Zhang Zhehan, he was always very polite and often kept his hands clasped when taking photos with unfamiliar people.  -  The attendees were assigned a number so the photos could be sent to them afterwards. Standard practice for celebrity photo ops is that the photos are printed there; being sent later allows time for editing to be done.  -  It took two weeks for people to be sent their photos. Despite this, some of the editing is... not very good.

Followups

Yahoo! Taiwan published an article talking about the concert, referring to Zhang Zhehan as an “artist who insulted China”.

[Written notes] from a Twitter space discussion about the concert. Main points not previously covered here:

It was learned by Chinese CPFs that any Chinese person who wants to hold a concert outside of China needs to get written permission to do so. There is no evidence that the scam gang did this, and it’s doubtful that someone in Zhang Zhehan’s situation would do so.

If you watch the videos of Zhang Sanjian talking at the concert, it looks very performative, not a real emotional response like what you can see in videos of the real Zhang Zhehan at his past concerts. Especially at a concert after 813 and not seeing his fans for two years, wouldn’t you expect him to get quite emotional?

Likewise, there are enunciation differences and dialectic differences in how Zhang Sanjian spoke.

If the point of the concerts was to make money, they would have started promotions much earlier, it doesn’t make commercial sense to announce it at such short notice. The intent of the concert was to get attention.

Another intent seems to be to try to divide CP fans, similar to how last year they succeeded in dividing haizhe and whalers.

Following the concerts, there was a significant uptick in fans of other celebs harrassing those saying the concerts were fake—especially in c-ent fan culture, fans of other celebs can and will happily take advantage of the scam to eliminate their bias’s competition even if they are aware that it’s a scam.

This post was last edited 2023-05-24.

[septembriseur]

Is anyone interested in sponsoring travel expenses for one of two Afghan students traveling to the US to continue their education?

One is my former office assistant, a very talented young Hazara guy who is an aspiring journalist. A US organization is able to find his ticket from Pakistan to the US, but he needs to cover his travel from Afghanistan to Pakistan, which will be about $400. I can put you in contact with him or show you proof of his travel booking from Pakistan to the US.

The other is a refugee student in Qatar who has received a full scholarship to a graduate program in the US and has gotten his student visa, but has no way to pay his travel expenses to the US. That’s likely going to cost about $1000 total. I can provide more specific details if you contact me. Also happy to connect you directly to him.

These are both students that I know personally and can vouch for, and they are associated with organizations that can also provide legitimating documents. They were both designated as U.S. priority refugees due to their work for and affiliation with US-funded organizations in Afghanistan, but they see no hope of ever being resettled in the U.S. at the current (glacial) pace of resettlement, so education is their best route to a stable, secure future in which they can help their families.

If anyone can contribute, knows an organization that might be able to help, or is interested in fundraising, please get in touch.

[npzlawyersforimmigration]

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[adambja]

My Price List (updated August 2024)

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With the health of democracy on the minds of U.S. voters, Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski said his country will cooperate with whichever candidate wins the presidential election.

“We want to have the best possible relations with whoever is in charge,” he told NPR’s Steve Inskeep.

The political debates leading up to this year’s U.S. presidential election echo those had in Poland last year. Sikorski said abortion rights, immigration and political corruption were factors for voters when they pushed out the right-wing Law and Justice party last year, ending its near decade-long rule.

Sikorski blames the Law and Justice party for eroding much of the country’s democratic institutions such as the judiciary and local media.

“There was a systematic attempt to capture the state. Public media, Poland's equivalent of NPR, was subjected to strict party controlled, became very biased,” Sikorski said. “They were trying to take over private media as well, milking state companies, subjugating the prosecution service to strict political party control.”

Immigration is also shaping Polish politics, especially by way of Poland’s neighbor Belarus. According to the AP, illegal border crossing increased over the summer from a handful a day to almost 400. Some of Poland’s border guards have also described some violent encounters with migrants, including one guard who was stabbed.

“Russia invites migrants from Africa and Asia, giving them Russian visas, and then moves them to Belarus.” Sikorski said. “Belarussian border guards push them across the border.”

Belarus’ Foreign Ministry shared the following statement from Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov in response to NPR’s request for comment:

“The topic of migration became increasingly politicized. Instead of solving the problems of irregular migration, political games are being played – who will earn how much money for it. We are convinced that all issues must and can be resolved through dialogue.”

Sikorski sat down with Morning Edition to reflect on the state of democracy in Poland, his country’s support for Ukraine, the Polish public’s concerns about immigration and abortion rights.

[ifindus]

Hey! I'm also an archaeogist and I specifically focus in the early medieval Scandinavian period (viking period I guess but also the lead up to the vikings) and danish and norwegian prehistory. Do you know of any programs or opportunities for excavation that include foreign archaeologists? Sorry big question 😅 also strange follow up do you guys also have the archaeology passport over there aswell lol?? (Also I'm from Wales so still in Europe if that helps)

Hii! Such a great pick of period honestly 👀 I always have to reread to remember you work with different medieval periods than us lol. I wrote my masters on a specific Norwegian region in the iron age and the transition from the roman iron age (0-400) into the migration period (400-550) and the merovingian period (550-800), so I am well aquainted with these periods!

I can't say I know of any excavations for foreign archaeologists, but I've also never really had to worry about that? If you were in the EU you could probably apply at any digs you want (I can pm you some Norwegian job searching websites if you're interested - they usually put out archaeology jobs in February/March each year) - but now you'll probably need a working visa to come over 🤔

I have never heard about the archaeology passport!! And I both studied a semester and interned in Scotland! Seems to be a British and Australian thing from what I gather after a quick google search. Fascinating. From what I've experienced archaeology seems much more accessible(?) in the UK, like everyone can do it if they want, while here you are much more reliant on getting a specific education 🤷 there are no voluenteers at digs here, only workers who get paid for it, often recuired a bachelor