This is a good point - whereas pre 2001 if you managed to get away with it once but got pulled up another time they would tend to be lenient, these days if they get the slightest whiff that you'd broken the rules in the past they will have no second thoughts about denying you entry on a permanent basis. A friend of mine who's a visual artist lived in NYC for 10 years on a legit visa, but recently had some irregularity on a tourist visa to go back there, and in the process they found that she had overstayed her work visa previously by 5 days - she is now barred from getting a working visa for the US for life.
If you're going to play internationally, you pretty much > have to follow the rules, because they WILL catch up with you > eventually, and they usually get really upset if they realize you've > been working in their country without a visa and getting away with it. -- matt chester 11th hour recordings matt-chester.com myspace.com/mattchester1
