Posted on 02/27/2018 7:41:42 AM PST by ssaftler
Khaled Altarkeet is so frustrated, he is “self-deporting.”
After an immigration quagmire left his business visa in limbo, the owner of a popular cafe across from San Jose State University has closed his business, let go his half dozen employees, donated the leftover food to Catholic Charities and, on Wednesday, will board a plane with his wife and four children to fly back to his home country of Kuwait.
“I’m shutting the business and forgetting the United States,” said Altarkeet, sitting for the last time in the empty cafe with the chairs stacked on the tables last week. “I will find another country that is more accepting and willing to take my investments, since this place doesn’t want us.”
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Apply for citizenship, and do what the rest of the LEGAL residents do, ya crybaby whiner...
So, this guy can’t run a business that doesn’t depend on illegal labor, with a host government picking up the difference between what he pays and what the workers need to survive (like kid’s education, health benefits, etc)?
Good, one less muslim jihadist in waiting.
Well, bye. Don’t let the door hit you in the allah.
““I will find another country that is more accepting and willing to take my investments, since this place doesn’t want us.””
Hey MFer, you broke the code! Suggest you try London next.
Appears this is an ICE screw up. Sorry for this man and his family.
I wonder if I moved to kuwait and started up a business what would happen?
WINNING
From the comments:
The Clevelander
11 minutes ago
I looked up the definition of an L-1 visa and as I read it, Mr. Altarkeet would have had to open a subsidiary of his lumber business to be compliant https://www.uscis.gov/worki...
It also states that an L-1 visa holder who travels out of the U.S. must prove they are in compliance upon re-entry. Looks like he gamed the system and got caught.
It took 30 seconds of research to figure this out so why didn’t Julia Prodis Sulek do the same? Doesn’t make for good “storytelling.
I want to feel sorry for the guy and his family but, he gamed the system, and maybe that was the only way to to do this.
But, he apparently owned some company in Kuwait which, if he could have applied as an executive of that company and opened a subsidiary here, he would have stood a greater chance of qualifying.
The story is being shaded for a shady application and that is too bad.
Maybe his restaurant/cafe was a good idea.
Now if only?
Yup. L1 is for “intracompany transfer”.
If Mitsubishi in Japan needs to send a manager to oversee something in a California office he would get an L1.
You are only allowed to work for that overseas employer.
You are not allowed to switch jobs or go into business for
yourself. And if the initial employment ends you are supposed to leave the country.
“his request for an extension in October was denied on the grounds that he didn’t prove he was a manager or executive of the restaurants for which he’s invested hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
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I don’t understand why he couldn’t prove he was the owner. Something fishy here.
Open a cafe in Kuwait.
Get OUT, you bum.
Thank you. It is so hard to understand what is going on with the bold faced liars that write news stories these days.
Kuwait is not a bad place to be..if you are a Kuwaiti. It’s a wealthy nation and he can do just as well there.
If you do a web search there are guides that tell you what each of the visa categories are and who they apply to.
In my view the one they really need to crack down on is the F1 student visa. That comes with 12 months of work authorization (can be extended to 36 if they earn a STEM degree) to provide “practical training” so then they can go back home and apply those skills.
Few if any EVER go back home, and we are letting shady fly-by-night universities enroll virtually anybody and approve their visa.
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