Mercenary Pilot,
that's what I said: whatever you do ,you are illegal, because there is no way to get an m1 visa...if I could get an M1 visa, I would have asked for one.
All Students who has been turned down bhy the TSA are really pissed off. But this is a warning to all of you seeking training in the USA, It is a risky business and it is illegal...
please stop with your bla bla of vocational training (is that a new invention of a swedish school or, have you received a mail printed by the INS telling it is a vocational course??, in this case, this form is not valid since 2002(huh?) ) . The real and the only existing text says it is a training, NOT A VOCATIONAL TRAINING.
I know 100 pilots too with no visa and who did their training in the USA with no visa(this is what schools tell you, and you are right, many pilots still use this loophole in the US law).
Some of these students should not even be in the USA, some have already entered the USA by this way , maybe to put bombs in planes, this is why I don't understand the attitude of the TSA who lets enter anybody(except for some pilots ...).
I am more upset by this, than by my situation. If one of these terrorists guys can crash a plane and we discover he did a training in a sim in the USA, it will be finished for all of us!!
they are more concerned by mexican crossing illegaly the border(visa waiver???), than to know who is trained on heavy aicraft simulators...
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Mercenary Pilot
I know of over 20 people from across Europe who have done TR's in America as Category 1's with no visa...because you don’t need one!
pratically you don't need one.
but READ THIS 1000 TIMES, and you will see that your 20 people from Europe are illegally in the USA.
therefore,
it is important that you have a visa that permits you to take flight training in the United States. If you do not possess the correct visa, or if you have questions pertaining to your visa status or the appropriate visas for flight training, please contact your local Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services at 1-800-375-5283 or at,
http://www.uscis.gov or the State Department Consular Affairs Office for assistance. The AFSP will deny flight training requests from candidates
who are present in the United States illegally or who do not have an appropriate visa for flight training.
Fees paid for denied applications are not refundable.