Good idea for a forum.
I'll ask a question that I was pondering this morning. My girlfriend in the past month has fallen into the category of "Dominican abroad." She is about to start studying here in US with a F-1 student visa which technically does not let her work. She found and started a cash/under the table job last week as a bartender/waitress in a Cuban bar/restaurant.
My question is what is the likelyhood of her being caught and deported for working illegaly? I initially was not worried at all as there are millions of people working illegaly and I would hope that INS is more worried about catching terrorists than with restaurant workers. The place that she is working seems ok with respect that it looks like there are no problems with drugs, fights (ie things that would draw police attention) and it is in a town (Union City, NJ) where a large percentage of workers are Hispanic and not working legally.
The only thing that slightly worries me is that she does serve alcohol and obviously without a bartenders' licence. Obviously, there are many people working in this situation for many years but after the all the hard work for her to get here it would be horrific for her to be deported for making a couple hundred a week.
Should she be worried and try to find a job elsewhere or are her chances of being caught 1 in a million? Does anyone heard of specific cases of people sent back to DR or other Latin American countries for simply working illegally (not other crimes).
Thanks - Chris
I'll ask a question that I was pondering this morning. My girlfriend in the past month has fallen into the category of "Dominican abroad." She is about to start studying here in US with a F-1 student visa which technically does not let her work. She found and started a cash/under the table job last week as a bartender/waitress in a Cuban bar/restaurant.
My question is what is the likelyhood of her being caught and deported for working illegaly? I initially was not worried at all as there are millions of people working illegaly and I would hope that INS is more worried about catching terrorists than with restaurant workers. The place that she is working seems ok with respect that it looks like there are no problems with drugs, fights (ie things that would draw police attention) and it is in a town (Union City, NJ) where a large percentage of workers are Hispanic and not working legally.
The only thing that slightly worries me is that she does serve alcohol and obviously without a bartenders' licence. Obviously, there are many people working in this situation for many years but after the all the hard work for her to get here it would be horrific for her to be deported for making a couple hundred a week.
Should she be worried and try to find a job elsewhere or are her chances of being caught 1 in a million? Does anyone heard of specific cases of people sent back to DR or other Latin American countries for simply working illegally (not other crimes).
Thanks - Chris