Down the street from the embassy in MGA is an office, to the right as you face the embassy.

When Ariana was rejected for the same reasons we went down to see him, and he explained that the packaging was all important.

I didn't wind up using him, decided based on her goals arriving mojado was the best solution.

However, a friend did and was able to get a ten year multiple entry visa for his "prometida" who was equally without "recursos" and didn't speak a word of English.

He subsequently married the girl, and they live in the DC area with a young child.

Property, money in the bank, a profession, but then the day of the week,, who you get for the interview, also seem to be equally important.

You are right. The big question is,, will he or she come back to Nicaragua? If you think about it from the interviewer's standpoint, it's not a hard question to answer.

I didn't save any contact information for the "packager".

Remember though, if the girl DOES plan on staying long term she would be better off arriving without any evidence of entry. At some point there will be some type legalization process.

At the moment, anyone who arrived before Jan of 2014 is not a target for deportation. Bets will be off with Trump, but visa overstayers are going to be a prime target.

Good luck to the young lady!!

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The records speak for themselves. With he5r profile she is 20% or less likely to return of her own violition. I would not approve entrance on that info, no matter how well packaged.

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The Us embassy does not look kindly on immigration lawyers. It would be a mark against her. Without a job she doesn't stand a chance.

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ATZ is right. I don't know if there is any feedback to the interviewers (i.e., what percent of the visas granted return), but having been there with a young lady who had every intention of NOT coming back, I got the sense of how easy it is to make determination.

The process is computerized. The interviewer has your visa application, asks a variety of questions, the responses to which he enters in the computer.

I showed up in jacket and tie, with what I thought was about the best story I could conjure up: wanting to introduce my prometida to my family . . .
Unfortunately, when Ariana dresses up she looks a bit (OK,, really) tarty. She got the very last interview of the morning,, it was right at lunch, so guy might have been hungry. We had to get her photos re-done because the top of her hair was cropped.

Interviewer looked us both up and down,, old guy and a girl one third his age,, talked to both of us for a few minutes,,, then asked me to take a seat. Poor Ariana came back with tears in her eyes,, but it was for the best.

Trump will run down the visa overstayers, that's an easy group to target. Most provided extensive contact info to get the visa. I've been reading the Honduran La Prensa,, it sounds like anyone with a criminal record is going.

The rest are "gente estupenda" and we'll look at those after wee get the wall built. That's a few years out,, so I suspect that anyone already in, with a clean nose,, will wind up staying.

I WOULD advise your friend to get there before Jan 20, 2017 :)

Final advice: Get there early. Anyone in the know knows that the appointment thing is BS. Get in the line at 7:30.

Again,,, Good Luck!!
Any Nica with the motivation to change their life for the better has my respect. I drive back and forth regularly, have visited many of the jump off places like Arriaga, talked to many migrants.

Most are very ill-prepared and thus fail in their journey. The Mexican Migra ask a few simple questions,, What is the Mexican national bird, flower,, sing the first verse of the national hymn, they don't bother to ask for ID which a lot of mexicans don't carry,, they don't need to . ..

My advice to your friend: Get to Tapachula, Mexico, and spend some time there. Jobs are available, town is full of migrants, including all those Africans going north.

Learn the Mexican culture, spend 3 months or more becoming mexican.
No one is bothered in Tapachula,, But going north, there are 12 checkpoints getting through Chiapas.

Once in Oaxaca, things quiet down


Al Norte Mojado is still doable,, you just need to know how to do it. where to cross (avoid Texas,, everyone goes there because it's closer).

Finally, tell your friend that there are a million people who will prey on her. That's why she needs to spend some time developing some 'conocido"before she tries.

Crossing into the US is actually much easier than getting through southern Mexico.

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The world is full of failed nations generating illegal immigrants.

The stupid states can only support so many of them before they fail themselves, whether it be Europe full of Muslims or America full of Hispanics.

A country like Nic or Honduras that supports itself on remittances is setting itself up for a devastation crash. Couple that with the population boom here and you get an even worse crash.

Putin summed it up best to the effect of Behave yourselves, immigrants, you need us more than we need you.

I understand the frustrations of people with the poor luck to be born in Nic. without wealth or connections. I think if I were in such a situation i would leave and never look back, just like my American ancestors left their flea-bag countries in Europe and never looked back. But the world is a more crowded place now and there is really nowhere that really needs more people.

I have no idea if Trump will be able to keep his promises to the American people, but the next recession will be real interesting.

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That's why a farm in Nicaragua is such a good idea :)


Everything grows,, temps can be eternally mild with consistently cool nights and warm afternoons.

Property taxes can be paid with the sale of a few chickens every year --try that in the US.

Views in the north mountains are breathtaking, the water is pure, and except for some chicken thievery, crime is rare.

Paying for the border wall with a small tax on remittances is very achievable. Just 1% on the billions leaving the US would add up pretty fast.

That could be the Taj Majal of walls . .

Where does that leave Mexico, much of LA, and Canada? Mexico already has a migrant problem. They spend a lot of resources booting guatemaltecos who are trying to work in what has become a prosperous country. I met a lot of Hondurenos working in Tapachula.,

Canada, like much of Europe, will reap what they have sown.

But,, what if Trump pulls this off? Gives us back our country? Blacks decide to quit selling drugs, taking welfare and food stamps and go to work?

It COULD be a brave new world . .

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"Blacks decide to quit selling drugs, taking welfare and food stamps and go to work?"

Really? I just want to make it clear to any people considering visiting or moving to Nicaragua that this comment is not representative of all ex-pats here. It is representative of the biases of the writer only.

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Ex-pats are here for myriad reasons. I'm a soft touch for someone struggling up the ladder, as are many expats who help Nicas in a variety of ways.

Not much sympathy for someone who wears his pants around his knees, however.

God does indeed help those who help themselves, regardless of color.

Black Lives Matter . . . . helps the rest.

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Nicaraguans would lean heavily to Pirate's comments. Gangs and druggies are here, but they are not welcome in polite society.

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Having professional, successful friends in both Nica and ES, I have had more than a belly full of how disrespectful the interviewers are. My friends, both male and female, with money in the bank, quite a bit actually, thriving businesses, multiple properties, tax returns for their respective countries with incomes no less than 10 times the national average and they get turned down time and again. Having known them personally for years and their interests, the have no interest in staying the u.s. and want to go to visit friends and family (who by the way are there legally and have been for years and pay u.s. taxes) and they are always turned down cart blanche. I made a call to my Congressman who requested names to pursue it from his official capacity and my friends asked me not to. Reason: They had friends who had been turned down and calls had been made on their behalf within the u.s. to those who could take a second look. They were then notified by the embassies to come in for re-consideration, they were granted visa's after much humiliation from the embassy and threatened if they ever had intervention again. I personally know 3 young and exceptionally talented female students who went to the embassy in San S with letters from the prez (white house) and yes the letters were authentic and the embassy still refused to grant visa's for the same hypocritical reasons. The friends I know have the financial means to go illegally to the u.s. but that is CRAZY to them as they only want to visit. This "Merry Go Round" has continued for years. As a side note if you are from some other parts of this Screwed Up World, you can walk into the u.s. embassy and receive the visa in a heatbeat and then come over and create chaos if you so desire and be defended by our CRAZY u.s. government. Wow! How did we get here in the first place? Now that I have vented about 10% of my frustration, I will close by sincerely saying, all the best to all.

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