Matt1 2 Dec 2007 / #1Dear Sir or Madame,Attached is a copy of a sketch to my article in Polishor Polony Press which maybe interested to you:On June 8 of this year I was driving with my own carfrom Logan (near Salt Lake City)in the States of Utah where I live (I was planning tofill the immigrant petition to the INSafter the employment visa H1B, even if I would have toleave the United States to legalizethe status - currently I was on B1 visa)to Calgary in Canada in the province Alberta .I got to the border crossing in Coutts/Sweet Grass inthe state of Montana , oneof very few where the Canadian and the American sideshare the same office building.First the immigration officers of the Canada forbid methe entry on Canadian territorybecause I had no valid Canadian visa (I was noworrying neither about Canadian orAmerican visa because the Polish press reported (NowyDziennik about 25th of March)that Poland is a VWP country (Visa Waiver Program i.ewithout visas like the rest ofthe European Union)since the February, so it is also not subjected toissuing visas by Canada.My tourist-business visa expired only 9 months beforethis date (my detention).The Canadian side returned me to the American sidewhen I was orderedto wait 5 hours for the immigration officers superiorin confinement.After a few hours the immigration officer arrested meaccording to the article 236(I remained silence)of the Immigration and the Naturalization Act a I wastransported to the arrest in Shelby ,and after tree days to the arrest in Boulder nearHelena in the State of Montana.Next, with the combination of busses and federalplanes I was transported to theimmigration court in Florence in the State of Arizona.On June 25 the I have asked the immigration judge forthe voluntary departurefrom the USA and on July 27 I was taken to the cargoairport in Santa Ana in theState of California , from where the KLM plane took meto Amsterdam .I do not understand the aggressiveness of UnitedStates immigration servicesagainst my person i.e. my arrest by the United Statesduring the DEPARTURE(to underline) from the Unites States and whiledriving my own car and during the legalizationof acts allowing illegal immigrants remaining in theUSA ,Membership of the Republic of Poland in the EuropeanUnion andlack of any other Nations of the European Unionin deportation arrests of the USA , also the fact ofhaving the house in the USand the way I was traveling - I was cut from home andmy property in theUnites States while traveling for one day to Canada"out of my bed"Iand I found myself after two months of arrest cutfrom my home at Okecie airport.I am educated as scientist (and of world fame), I havenever worked illegally in the UnitedStates neither outside my profession.I got to the USA on F-1 visa and later worked on H1Bvisa and frequentlytraveled on B1/B2 visa.In 1991 I graduated Warsaw University of Technologyand next after sending about25000 letters to all universities on the world andpassing the American maturita GRE and TOELF I managedto get to study (PhD i.e. doctorate) in the Universityof Rochesterin the State of New York.In the USA I found myself really because of povertyand by an accident, becauseI was also accepted to the University of Lancaster inthe UK, but because of thelack of the Republic of Poland membership in theEuropean Union I was requestedtuition fees which I was able to avoid in the USA ..Despite of the fact that I am traveling on PolishPassport I have also the citizenshipof the Federal Republic of Germany and the secondplace of residence in Germany.In the arrest of the immigration court in Florence Iwas the only one of two Polishcitizens for about 200-500 Latinos per day arrestedfor crossing the Mexicanborder so called "on black" which obviously increasesmy misunderstandingof the whole situation.I will provide you with any other information likecopies of the deportation documents orthe satellite photos of objects where I was kept ifthey are useful.Maciej (Matt) Kalinski
postie 7 | 112 2 Dec 2007 / #2My tourist-business visa expired only 9 months beforethis dateLooks like you over-stayed your visa.... and they had a right to expel you from the US.Though why you'd post this in the UK section of PF is a bit of a mystery...
Michal - | 1,865 2 Dec 2007 / #4I feel sorry for and what you have been through. It always seems strange to me and unfair as the whole united states is crawling with illegal workers and it is a matter of 'no questions asked'. However, it also seems to me that the Poles seem to think that E.U. memberships is a free passport to do whatever they like, whenever and however. Poland is an Eastern European country with its ties to the former Soviet Union not with the English speaking World. Sorry, but that is my view for whatever its worth!
z_darius 14 | 3,968 2 Dec 2007 / #5Matt1That story and the letter get you deported by default. What a bunch of garbage.Matt, PhD candidates are expected to display above average intelligence.How you managed to get to even an undergraduate school is a mystery to me.
isthatu 3 | 1,164 2 Dec 2007 / #6In 1991 I graduated Warsaw University of TechnologyGood for you, though I think you may have missed the odd Geography lecture.......
z_darius 14 | 3,968 2 Dec 2007 / #7Poland is an Eastern European country with its ties to the former Soviet Union not with the English speaking WorldCould you stop smoking crack at least on Sundays?
isthatu 3 | 1,164 2 Dec 2007 / #8unfair as the whole united states is crawling with illegal workersyes,but even the least educated "wetback" from central america knows you dont then try to cross international borders...........
OP Matt1 2 Dec 2007 / #9No you dont understand. Maybe my text is not clear in English becouse Iwrote it in Polish first then translated. Not written directly.I was leaving to Canada. US does not have to let me reenter if the dont.Some Polish daily (I think Dagmara Babiarz in Nowy Dziennik) wrote Polandis VWP so Canada would open. I am really German so dont know this thinks so well.I posted in Britain, some time lived at Tooting, Lodon, maybe some friendsare still there.
LondonChick 31 | 1,133 2 Dec 2007 / #10Sorry, I'm a little confused here (still a bit of a heavy head after a few beers last night), what do you hope to achieve by posting this on multiple sections of this forum?
OP Matt1 2 Dec 2007 / #11No I am really smart. First tried to get to Canada without inspection not beingfully sure if Polish pass is VWP (through Del Bonita o junction 444 to 243).I even left my car idling and walked in to Canada for fun.Was tired and assumed the main Crossing in Coutts is closed.Only looks closed. Opens on semi-alarm mode if you try. Sorry the essential. The crossing is not inspected at night (in Del Bonita) butsome idiot put a small gate there with a lock - some 70 cm above the ground.You can only make walking or on bike.
OP Matt1 2 Dec 2007 / #13American way of seen media Sorry, I alnly wanted to be friendly. happened to me because of Polishpassport. Its interested for me you can get in concentration camp being EUcitizen for PhD. This is to LondonCHick: Simply American way of seeing media.Once is never enough No still have this right under 245(i) even if I was out of status.Had Labour Condition Application filled on dates.This justice or this people in Coutts are mentally ill or sth.
Dice 15 | 452 2 Dec 2007 / #14I can't understand one word he is saying.So he overstayed his visa and got deported. Good. For once the INS did what they are supposed to do.But why has he posted 16 copies of the same message all over the PF?
OP Matt1 2 Dec 2007 / #15No I just want this facts in all newspapers. Only the facts as I wrote. So 16I already wrote to all Polish. Only one replied. There is some milion illegalsof Poland in the US according to standard concentration of all Polish 1/10 and allillegals are 10 mln.They could buy this newspapers no ? To Michal: Ritt Goldstein, the US citizen once asked for political asylumin Sweden. They appeared communists to me because of slavery laborin Swedish military, but they also grant Nobel.Its difficult to tell about nowadays Poland in EU.
wildrover 98 | 4,451 2 Dec 2007 / #16Hello Matt...If you fill in form567/45tg36457/987 and post this to your grandmother , she can then paste down the corner of the document untill the word maudlin is almost completly covered...Using the code word lemon curry you can then phone mr Winston rupert at the small wool shop in the square , and order form t5678/345h and this can be used to make a small paper aeroplane , which when covered wih mouse fur will get you across the border...You will not be allowed to take a car over the border , if you want to do this you will have to be accompanied by an inflatable thingy , and be able to recite the Chinese alphabet whilst drinking a cup of prune juice...I hope this is pretty clear to you , if not i can post it 16 times on this forum , which will help no end....
OP Matt1 2 Dec 2007 / #17Sorry, I'm a little confused here (still a bit of a heavy head after a few beers last night), what do you hope to achieve by posting this on multiple sections of this forum?I am just from Tooting Bec London, before go to America. Just this.Oh Jesus, the Professors salary in 91 was some 5-20 US dollars month.You should take economy.
wildrover 98 | 4,451 3 Dec 2007 / #18I am just from Tooting Bec London, before go to America. Just this.Oh its all so clear now.........??????
plk123 8 | 4,148 3 Dec 2007 / #20I can't understand one word he is saying.So he overstayed his visa and got deported. Good. For once the INS did what they are supposed to do.he'sa just speaking over your head as he's got him one of them PHD thingies. loland yeah, finally HSA (INS) did it's job. yaaay! :D
OP Matt1 29 Dec 2007 / #21Could you stop smoking crack at least on Sundays?I only mean United States cannot ask me a questionAre you citizen of ... ? When on its soil. For any reason, even if denyto leave by third party. I remained silence, later anwered sth after torture.
z_darius 14 | 3,968 29 Dec 2007 / #22geesiskrist, they let you out again, huh?Must have been the Christmas spirit.Merry Christmass and a happy 2008, and always remember to have your visas in order ;)
Maat - | 21 5 Jan 2008 / #23and if you dont than dont try to cross any borders, dumbest ting i heard in a while, if you know your visa expired and you r in usa illegally than wtf you were trying to achive crossing canadian border? and as far as i know canadians let americans go in and out without visas according to some agreements [it works both sides btw] but your not a us citizen, and what you read in newspaper somewhere not being shure about it... nc... btw immigration did it job, we should have a holiday or something, considering that when i was in nyc i saw more illigal ppl than legal they could do better throu...
OP Matt1 29 May 2008 / #24I dont realy know my citizenship. I only lied to the justice on whatdocuments they found with me to get outthis military US to Europe. You have some basic understanding thatUS professors (US citizens or not ) should not be put to concetration campslike in nazi Germany even if Bin Laden bombs the NY. Specially 40-60 years old fat unfit etc. Immigation court in Arizona has elements of draft. There are tanks and your march when going to eat. This already may threaten Mexican there.Also some surrounding building are green painted.We Polish-German-Mexicans have this "no foreign soldier" no ?
mafketis 35 | 11,528 29 May 2008 / #25I'm sure it's all been unpleaant for you. But, honestly, it's all your own fault and nobody else's.1. Trying to cross a third international border with an expired visa is .... not smart.2. Doing so on the basis of a newspaper article (without checking with the relevant embassies/consulates) is ... not smart.3. VWP's are not for people to go anywhere they please for any length of time. The Canadian officials already had strong evidence that you don't think visa laws apply to you and that you feel free to overstay your visa. They were absolutely right to refuse entry and to turn you over to US Immigration.4. Polish membership in the EU and Schengen have _nothing_ to do US and Canadian visa/border crossing protocals.5. This was a lesson. An unpleasant, expensive lesson but one that you very much need to learn. But rather than learn from it, you're writing a lot of irrelevant nonsense that display no understanding of how you ended up where you did.Conclusion: Based entirely upon what you yourself have written here, you brought this entirely upon yourself through not paying attention to rules and foolish carelessness.In Poland no one cares about following rules and everybody thinks they're an exceptional case. In English speaking countries, following the rules is a very important cultural value (which you have not yet learned) and claiming to be a special case gets you nowhere (which you have not yet learned).
OP Matt1 29 May 2008 / #26I am not quite getting you. While your visa expires like H1b or F1 why you would follow any rules if you have no right to work.I never worked illigaly in the US. The jobs you can find while beingilligal are **** for slaves like building houses, restaurants or cutting meat ordo with chicken.They pay low 1000 and less dollars a months. I always made atleast 10000 a months. I have PhD.No illigal imigrants ever followed any rules.There is 10 mln illigal immigrants so 10 % of North America. You mean theyall dont speak English or so. And I dont no what is aussweis in America whileyou are illigal and EU there. What if you dont want to drive ?
z_darius 14 | 3,968 29 May 2008 / #27for slaves like building houses, restaurants or cutting meat ordo with chicken.So you live in houses, and eat food made by slaves?They pay low 1000 and less dollars a months. I always made atThis is what I paid weekly to construction workers in late 80's.I have PhD.And yet you are more stupid than allowed by law and tried to cross international borders without proper travel documents, based on an article in a newspaper.
OP Matt1 29 May 2008 / #28I already wrote before. I tried to cross without inspection in Del Bonita sincdo not fully trust press.The crossing there is closed at night for inspection but your car hasto fly because its locked with some 70cm gate.I had no time tried it again in Coutts when it is open and got caught.You can go there and check it under freedom of information.My car is still there. The number is 207 MRM Silver Taurus 92.
mafketis 35 | 11,528 29 May 2008 / #29What you don't seem to understand.Once your visa expires and you haven't left the country, you're breaking the law. When the authorities find you, they will deport you.The fact that you have a phd is completely irrelevant.The fact that you weren't working illegally is completely irrelevant.The fact that other illegal aliens aren't caught is completely irrelevant.There is only _one_ relevant fact. Your visa was expired. That made you an illegal alien, eligible for immediate deportation when found. If you didn't know that before, then you know that now.
OP Matt1 29 May 2008 / #30Mann I was living the country when I was arrested. Del Bonita is on CanadianBorder.O Jee this whole looks like US was simply trying to stop me to livethe country to Canada to draft me to US army.Im +15 after SSS and foreigner.I already told you. Infiltrating communist state institutiona when youngand having like Princeton PhD am sort of Condolessa Reiss by educationand experience. Arresting me by the US while trying to live to CANADAyou understand to CANADA with my own motor vehicle without aclear hope to come back looks simply to my as attemped of draftthrough immigration by both sides. **** Clear ?Usually send you notice to apear to home address which they have ftom thelicence plates. I would never apear simply left.