Originally Posted by JumboJet
Well John you and your buddies may not be a threat to national security but who knows about the other 2,795 applicants.
Whats the big deal? You have to give fingerprints and have an interview to visit another country which has a war going on, after that the program sounds generous.
A war!?! Get the blackout curtains! Aaaahhhh!
Why should they be bothered by silly US restrictions when perfectly good alternatives don't make them jump through the same silly hoops? It's a marketplace and they're going to the places that are offering the most competitive propositions. Eventually I suspect competitive forces will force the US to scale back our recently enacted anti-foreign tourism/business/student policies. Either that, or we'll run the economy aground.