Frankly, it's not worth wasting your angst about IMO - merely filel your appeal to the proper folks and get it done. Any mindless, faceless and enormous bureaucracy with diverse employees (even the occasional "Hah! Thus guy's GAY! Well..." or, in my case, "WHY did you visit Egypt, Jordan, etc.?" an nauseam) will have a certain percentage of failures and misdeterminations.
Acknowledge yourself for doing the right thing, file for reconsideration and good luck.
Originally Posted by
Eric Westby
No and no. No money parked in foreign countries, and my family is of very modest means.
I'm so paranoid about customs crossings that when I was traveling a lot, I was ridiculously careful about declaring even the smallest thing I'd bought abroad. Meanwhile, guys in my singing group were stashing half a dozen bespoke suits they'd acquired in Hong Kong in their bags without a second thought!
That's what rankles most: that a lifetime of scrupulous honesty is ignored in favor of an unaccountable bureaucracy.