And all this, because of her social networking site a word.
Last night, the Weibo student, Gao Yuren, posted a long post about her nightmarish experience at LAX airport.
Airport panic
On Feb. 27, v set off from his hometown of Guangzhou and flew back to the United States to continue his studies. It was her fifth and final year in Los Angeles.
For her, customs was already familiar, and Los Angeles was her second home.
Gao Yuren
This time, however, she had an accident. When she passed customs, she was asked to hand over her cell phone and was later taken to the black room for customs questioning.
She was then searched by two female police officers, who took her down to the bottom of her underwear and examined all her luggage.
Photo source: Gao Yuren Weibo
Half an hour later, a male customs officer began questioning her and, at the request of the girl, provided her with an interpreter.
But then another Asian-American police officer entered and took over inquiries about her, asking her if she knew that it was illegal for foreign students to work in the United States.
Gao Yuren said that he knew, but he is only doing WeChat business in China, there is no fixed job in the United States, no illegal work.
But that statement was snapped down by the police officer,
He said that if the customs had no evidence, there would be no inquiry.
At this point, the police officer also took out the handcuffs, and put his right hand on the waist side of the gun to intimidate Gao Yuren.
The officer said,
If you admit to working illegally in the United States,
All we have to do is repatriate, and we can't go back to the United States for five years,
But if she's lying, she'll be put in federal prison right away. Not only does she have to pay a fine of $30,000, she has five years in prison before she can return to China, and she will never be able to enter the United States again. Then he kept asking Gao Yuren if he really didn't work in the United States.
By this time, fearful Gao Yuren was completely confused, although she repeatedly confirmed to the police officer that if the so-called "work" refers to a fixed-time, fixed-income position, then she has not done it.
But this officer won't let her talk about "there's nothing",
Just urging her to say Yes or No,.
He said he had already given her a hint. If you don't say it now, cuff her right away.
Facebook, leave a message and get in trouble.
In shock, Gao Yuren had to say that she worked.
Then the police officer showed her two pictures,
It's a screenshot of her chatting on Facebook!
It turned out that just a year ago, a Mexican friend wanted to visit her in Los Angeles and ask where it would be convenient to meet her. Because Gao Yuren was helping out at a friend's Alhambra-based overseas study agency, he told his Mexican friend to meet near the company.
I didn't know,
It was just such a simple message that it caused a lot of trouble.
The police officer asked the girl how much she had paid when her friend at the company helped. Gao Yuren said only to help, and not paid. But police officers immediately announced that because of her illegal employment in the United States, her five-year student signature was immediately cancelled and she was immediately repatriated. For five years, she would not be able to return to the United States in any way.
a bolt from the blue
It all happened so fast that Gao Yuren could not believe that he had graduated a year before he was repatriated.
Despite her repeated requests to contact her family, friends, lawyers,
But all of them were rejected.
Photo source: Gao Yuren Weibo
Desperate Gao Yuren also made a request to see the Chinese Embassy in the United States, customs said can contact. But until she got on the return plane, she didn't see anyone at the consulate.
After dozens of hours of detention and interrogation,
Customs repatriated her solely on the grounds of a chat record on her Facebook page.
During the period, her cell phone was confiscated, the lock screen password was left, and all chat records were printed out. Customs also asked her to sign multiple documents, otherwise she could not leave the cabin, but did not disclose the contents of the documents.
Photo source: Gao Yuren Weibo
In the time of being shut down in the black house, Gao Yuren is afraid, helpless, sad, cold! But she had nothing to do with it.
Until the early hours of March 2, she was escorted all the way back to Hong Kong by customs officers, and was despised by passers-by and fellow passengers. It was not until she got on the plane that Gao realized that she might have left Los Angeles forever, left the United States, and left her dream and future.
Crying experiences, reminding foreign students and overseas Chinese
After all this, Gao Yuren has been unable to calm down for a long time. She wrote on Weibo:
"I write this down and I hope to call on the Chinese Embassy in the United States to better negotiate with the US goverment, and convey our views to the US goverment, in the hope that in the future we will be given a fair treatment and human rights in the next two years!"
She also reminded foreign students as well as overseas Chinese that once repatriated, the chances of returning to their visa sites were zero, which would also affect visas to other countries.
Finally, she says she has returned to her home and is already trying to reach out to lawyers and parties to defend her rights.
Photo source: Gao Yuren Weibo
Gao Yuren's experience is likely to also happen at Australian Customs.
Although Gao Yuren's experience did not take place in Australia, Australia's customs is superior to that of the United States.
The Australian newspaper announced last year that 8521 legal visa holders had been cancelled at Australian airports between January 2010 and January 2015.
That is to say, on average, there are nearly five visas per day.
Cancelled when entering Australia!
At the same time, Australian customs also have the right to check mobile phones, computers, last year Sydney netizens revealed, customs in their mobile phone chat records.
Although Australian customs did so to prevent illegal pornographic content from entering the country, it is not certain that it will start looking for work-related content one day.
Impression brother collected some recent cases of repatriation at the Customs, I hope that overseas students as well as Chinese Australians can take warning, be careful!
(1) contraband is a taboo
Before entering Australia, you must not take more than three months of regular over-the-counter drugs.
If you carry prescription drugs, especially hormones and antibiotics, be sure to have a prescription, it is best to require the original prescription and doctor's letter, and can prove that you need to take this drug!
Another drug can be used to make drugs, but can not bring Australia. Many drugs contain addictive trace substances, such as cough water, glycyrrhizin tablets, white and black, Cortek and other drugs, among which trace morphine, ephedrine can be refined into drugs.
If you bring some drugs into Australia, you will not only be repatriated, but may also go to jail for manufacturing drugs!
In addition, there is no vacuum packaging of food, meat, seeds are all taboo. Australia is more remote, surrounded by oceans that determine Australia's lack of species and germs from other continents, and the consequences could be severe if destructive species enter Australia.
It is precisely to reduce the biosafety threat that alien species pose to Australia that Australia is scrutinized by the Australian Customs for the strict inspection of animal and plant products and foodstuffs coming into the country.
If you have any questions about entering the country, you can read this article:
The latest Australian entry declaration list for 2017! Don't see the penalty until you cry, minute by minute sent back to a fine, maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment!
(2) WeChat shows inappropriate words and small yellow pictures.
Australian customs audit WeChat is no longer new, although no Australian students have been repatriated because of WeChat content, but there have been many similar cases in other countries.
A Chinese student returned to China during the non-holiday period, and the school was dutifully brought into the black room for examination by the Customs. Finally, because of his chat on WeChat more than half a year ago, he revealed to his friend, "I don't like this school." He was immediately returned to China after being cross-examined for more than three hours.
Some netizens said that her friend went to Canada to travel, was also checked by the customs WeChat, found that she was chatting with her friend jokingly said to come to Canada "fishing" (Cantonese means to work), the result was repatriated at that time!
There are also some similar yellow memes, underage child pornography videos, once turned out by Australian customs, but the repatriation is lucky, serious people can be arrested on the spot.
Special attention: students holding student visas should pay attention to attendance rate, school regulations, work permit 20 hours to meet the requirements; Holders of travel and business inspection visas should be careful not to work in Australia. The Immigration Board will find problems when checking your passport through customs. At that time, you will immediately confiscate your mobile phone, flip your bag, and so on. Your WeChat and other communications app will also have Chinese-speaking staff to check.
(3) A number of visits to Australia and long periods of residence
Australian law requires a tourist visa holder to stay for no more than 12 months within 18 months and not to enter for more than three months at a time.
When many Chinese with tourist visas enter Australia, the time given by the Customs and Excise Department is that they will not be able to stay for 12 months within 18 months, but this does not mean that they can live for a continuous period of 12 months, and if they live for more than three months at one time, It will also result in visa cancellations, overdue illegal stay in Australia, will be drawn into the customs surveillance list.
(d) No return ticket was repatriated
If you hold a tourist visa, you must have a travel plan, and a return ticket is an essential part of it. Without a return ticket, 99.99% of customs in Australia will be repatriated as "no return".
(e) the return of a passport with his mouth and the repatriation of a show of wealth
There was a Chinese man carrying a passport with his mouth in his mouth to go through the immigration formalities for the customs. Unexpectedly, he was repatriated because the man held his passport in his mouth as a disrespect for customs and also for his passport.
There are also examples of repatriation at the Australian Customs Excise show of wealth:
Chinese tourists show off their wealth at Australian customs, pretend to be forced, and humiliate Australia as a "poor country". The customs was enraged, and the result was a legal denial of entry.
The tragic incident of the two Chinese men also reminded the vast majority of Chinese friends that they must be polite to the Customs when entering the country, otherwise it would be wrong to be repatriated because of such a trifle.
Finally, those friends who have returned to Australia again, or come all the way to Australia to study and work, will pay more attention from now on to understand in detail the relevant regulations of Australia's goverment on prohibited articles and abide by local laws. Avoid any serious consequences of negligence and leave a lifetime of regret for yourself.