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| Written by GR Staff | |
| Saturday, 28 April 2007 | |
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Dear Sir:
This past week, I received an e-mail from a Mexican friend of mine who had recently taken her family to the American consulate in Guadalajara to apply for visas to visit the United States. Their plan had been for their oldest son (now age 11) to attend a program near Chicago where he could improve his English language skills, and then for them to drive up to visit him for a couple of weeks before returning to Chapala for their jobs and family responsibilities. As an American citizen, I was quite embarrassed to hear about their negative experience at the consulate. They were denied the visas, with no explanation. Apparently, this is not all that unusual (from what others have told me). But they also feel they were treated rudely and left with a feeling of deep regret for having exposed their children to such a lack of common courtesy. They had to explain to the children that they shouldn't take the official's attitude personally. That could be how he treated all applicants, or maybe he was just having a bad day. Nonetheless, in light of how well I have been treated by Mexican officials since first coming down here four years ago, I felt like I needed to apologize for how my government treated them. I wish that had not been the case. Eileen Collard, Chapala |
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