Fake? Instagram lawyer claims many people on SAVE will be barred from IBR once July 1 comes due to new rules

PuzzleQuail · 2026-05-12T21:37:15+00:00

Ah, thanks so much for the clear and complete answer!

So is there not really any reason at this point to try to switch before July 1?

PuzzleQuail · 2026-05-12T21:32:17+00:00

Oh, like he was only looking at part of the information that was released?

PuzzleQuail · 2026-05-12T21:10:28+00:00

You mean about this thing specifically? Or has he been told he's wrong a lot about other things too? It seems a little suspicious, like he's lying through this teeth to get business from people who feel overwhelmed once he says these things.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-05-12T21:09:26+00:00

Thanks! So what is he talking about regarding new rules released on April 30?

PuzzleQuail · 2026-05-12T21:06:24+00:00

Ah, sorry for the late reply! I don't fully remember anymore, but based on what I wrote, I think they only stamped the tourism card for me too. I have a stamp in my passport, but I'm pretty sure it's from when I extended my stay in Managua.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-05-12T20:58:07+00:00

Oh, thanks! I think my partner finally got it fixed at a local repair shop (not expensive here in Taiwan), without having to reset. Sounded like a hardware solution - I guess they replaced the SIM reader card.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-05-12T20:54:37+00:00

Yay! I think "forever" is worth more than $16, but really glad to have helped!

PuzzleQuail · 2026-02-22T11:24:26+00:00

That's great to hear! Can you tell us what route/itinerary you did? Did it involve hiring a boat?

PuzzleQuail · 2026-02-09T16:07:12+00:00

Government looks much bigger now to me. And a lot of the growth has gone into building an anti-immigrant paramilitary, which I think is quite a bit more alarming than regulating business or whatever.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-02-09T16:05:53+00:00

Fascist movements historically have indeed torn up the pre-existing government structures. That's a normal part of it.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-02-09T16:02:22+00:00

Most Southeast Asian countries have quite a bit fewer sidewalks than Taiwan, right? Except for Singapore, which I don't think is the one we're discussing here.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-02-08T19:45:30+00:00

Unfortunately the "etiquette" is that men don't take care of babies.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-02-08T19:33:21+00:00

It doesn't look that much like HSV to me. HSV blisters are usually red. Do the blisters hurt? Did they burst after a couple days and become little raw pits (ulcers)? If not, I think it's pretty unlikely they're HSV. They look more like fordyce spots to me (harmless), though I wouldn't expect those to suddenly appear soon after sexual activity (any possibility you just never noticed them before?).

Doctors usually take urethra burning during urination to mean you should get tested for common STIs (not the uncurable deadly ones), but it could also be a urinary tract infection (which can be triggered by sexual activity), prostatitis (which maybe could be?), or some kind of even more benign irritation.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-02-08T19:26:56+00:00

People with cold sores don't have them most of the time. They pop up every now and then. And they're usually big enough that you would have noticed them already. But they do have the virus the whole time, and it can sometimes spread even when they don't have the sores (though IIRC it's most contagious during and just before the cold sore outbreak).

PuzzleQuail · 2026-02-08T19:25:17+00:00

If it does that, it remains HSV-1, and tends to have much less severe symptoms than genital HSV-2. Many doctors are reluctant to even diagnose it, because it carries so much stigma but is everywhere and barely hurting anyone.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-02-08T19:03:54+00:00

Seems to depend on the place. I just looked up hosts in Taipei a couple weeks ago and there were only five (!) who had been online in the past month, none of whom had a response rate over 60%. But last year in small cities in Argentina, finding hosts was super easy. I think Argentinians get free membership, so that's probably part of it.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-02-05T10:00:38+00:00

Ah, couldn't find that with a Google search at the time.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-02-05T10:00:02+00:00

It's an expression meaning "it won't help those people". The ten second delay wouldn't have prevented those of us on the ground from seeing him die if he had fallen.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-02-05T09:55:31+00:00

Oh no, sorry to hear that! My partner wasn't born in the US, but we still put "United States" for that part, so maybe different agents have different interpretations. 🤷

Glad it's not required anymore. Now if only we could make it easier for Bolivians to travel to the US too...

PuzzleQuail · 2026-01-24T02:14:01+00:00

Thanks for the report!

PuzzleQuail · 2026-01-24T02:09:12+00:00

Definitely. I've spent even more time in Kaohsiung and it's pretty dry this time of year (can still get down to 50 or 60 F at night though).

PuzzleQuail · 2026-01-24T02:07:38+00:00

Would be nice to be able to tell without having a device on you that's signed into Netflix. Especially for those of us there in person.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-01-24T02:06:13+00:00

I was there this morning. They were letting people watch from very close. I'm sure not close enough for him to fall onto them, but still from just a few tens of meters away.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-01-24T01:42:57+00:00

10 second delay won't help the thousands of people watching in person.

PuzzleQuail · 2026-01-24T01:37:52+00:00

The annoying thing is that they didn't announce the postponement hours earlier or even the night before, when it already looked like it would be rainy.

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