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Peter (Moderator) says on Oct 13, 2006, 09:24:

You can attend college without a student visa or residency, BUT you won't get credits for it, you'll be a non-accredited student. (As far as I understand).

20 years ago it might have been different, if they didn't ask for documents (or they faked the docs), they might have done it.

It is very possible to live illegally in the USA and have a job, rent an appartment, go to school and so on. So why not go to college? Especially 20 years ago. Now, I think you could do it without being credited, and they'd charge you the full price.

Poor but snappy

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bufalo says on Oct 14, 2006, 09:44:

I've known plenty of people who went to and graduated from colleges in NYC and they were illegal. Even better, had they come on a student visa, they would have paid way more money. The illegals that I knew paid the same as US citizens.

"If you don't like it - lump it, take it down the road and dump it." - Archie Bunker played by Carroll O'Connor

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goin_south says on Oct 14, 2006, 10:48:

I would imagine laws and enforcement of these things were quite different 20 years ago. I know they were. I know a Colombiana who married a gringo and went to the USA 14 years ago, and she said all they had to do then, to get the fiance visa, was a few hours time and diligence, in Bogota, one time, no six months of paperwork and waiting, and, she was granted the visa with little questioning and no problems.

Where do we go from here?

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Ferchousa says on Oct 15, 2006, 21:38:

that was 20 years ago as others have mentioned, 20 years ago things were way different. These days you can't work off campus when in a student visa. 20 years ago I don't knwo if you could, but if you couldn't people probably didn't care as much. The world has become, unfortunately, too structured these days. Traveling, living, moving and working in the world was way easier those days.

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