Story on our local (Vancouver,BC) news tonight about a young female jazz singer/composer invited to play at the Blackbird Club in NY as an unpaid guest. She told the US border guard the purpose of her visit and was refused admission for not having a work visa, lost her airfare and accommodation costs and is now listed as someone who tried to work in the US without a visa and may have trouble with future travel or applying for a visa. The visa would have cost her several hundred dollars, and it made no difference that she was not being paid in any form.
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 and Janet
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