Welcome Thalkirst! I read your other thread too, what a story you have!
There is a poster on OCMB and Enturbulation.Org called "AnonMomAnon" who lives in Clearwater (Flag) and is very concerned for children from Hungary and other European countries. She is working with Amnesty International to try to help families from your area. The critic Shawn Lonsdale (who died recently) took video and pictures of children from your area. I am sure she would love to hear from you...are you registered on those boards yet?
I have been very concerned about Visa abuses by scientology for some years.
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Originally Posted by Thalkirst
You mean abusing R-1 and R-2 religious worker visas? 
FSO recruiters in Hungary had a complete hat pack on how to handle US embassies on this matter.
OSA had all the details on each and every interview the applicants got and they had all the phone numbers and names of all officials.
Also, OSA FLB has some kind of a line to the US Dept of State in case something went wrong here locally.
They drilled the recruits on what to say and kept sending people back again and again to get them out to FSO. Some of them could not even speak English properly.
But around 1996 fortunately some losers who were recruited have completely pissed off the official who handled the visa, so for about 1 year it was pretty hard to get an R1 visa.
It got "handled" by OSA later though. |
I have a lot of information to back up what you are saying here. There was a lot of abuse and inside deals with Embassies, people were drilled on getting B-6 (Visitor) Visas good for 6 months, and if they couldn't extend or marry a US citizen they had to go back, then apply for H-3 (Training) visas, then apply for extension under R-1 (religious) visa. There were many other scams I heard about, though I was not directly on that line. We were told we had to do things this way because there were "SP"s in the Immigration service or Embassies who hated scientology.
Here is a letter I wrote to the authorities for someone who went through all that:
http://www.groupsrv.com/religion/about90264.html
I look forward to hearing more from you, and I hope we can help.
Ladybird