Oh who want to read the story of the unlawful activities of a Registered Nurse; bureaucracy on steroids . . .

Hello all, I am an Australian Registered Nurse; being an Australian Citizen of good character I never ever break the law South of the Equator. I only find myself breaking the law when I come to the United States of America.

In Australia I work (slightly; like with some small effort) as a Registered Nurse. I have a Visa to come to America as a tourist.,so in the attempt to do touristy things when I come to America i force myself to cruise the Caribbean in the largest ship in the world.

Royal Caribbean have the two largest passenger ships ever on the Oceans, The Allure is the 2nd biggest ship afloat and Oasis of the Seas the third; only one super tanker for bulk oil is slightly larger, to put this another way these ships make aircraft carriers look smallish.

700 Million dollars to build, 700 million to kit out, around 8,500 people including the approx 2,500 crew; this is what 225 tonnes gives you. A nice way to travel to the Bahamas. But can I work in america; nope, no social security number. . .

As a Registered Nurse I got my Australian Grades converted to Americanese so the Americans could read them; after all Americans read American and my grades were written in English, so you can understand the confusion. Then I passed the American nursing test and am eligible to hold an American nursing licence. However without a Social Security Number I cannot be issued an American Registered Nursing Licence because I do not have a Social.

Without a job offer I cannot change my tourist visa from tourist to WORKER BEE status. So no I am not working, I am simply breaking immigration law by suggesting the idea I might try and find work in America once I can legally do so. Australians get a special kind of work visa, I cannot get a work visa because I do not have a job offer.

I cannot get a job offer because I do not have an american Nursing Licence. Without a Social Security number I cannot pick up my Nursing licence. I cannot get a Social # because I am not allowed to gain a Social Security number because I do not have a work visa.

So simply I cannot work in America, in fact I cannot volunteer in America since most agencies now require a SS# to volunteer, so I sit and Steemit my days away till my visa expires and I return to the land of lesser bureaucracy and return to the workforce.

Recently I returned to Australia and applied for welfare till i could land my next Registered Nursing job, I wanted into the welfare office and they told me I did not have sufficient proof of identification since i only had my Australian drivers licence, 2 credit cards and my Australian Passport. They told me my Australian passport did not qualify as an approved document; it was never put on the approved list since people on welfare almost never have a government passport.

This episode is not to be confused with two years before when I returned to Australia and was told I was no longer eligible for Residency. Residency is where your allowed to live within a country, apparently these bureaucrats felt I had lost my Australian Residency because i had been overseas more than 3 years in the past 5 years.

I explained I was an Australian citizen by birth, not a naturalized citizen, thus I could not be considered for things like free health care, the right to vote etc. I asked does that mean my government cannot draft me now? I stated that my lack of residency would be explained to the Taxation office why I declined to file any taxation certificates. They said the law was specific. I said where would you like to live Ethiopia or Antarctica if I could not live in my own country.

Finally they said I could live there but was ineligible to collect welfare since i had not paid any tax. I explained my next call after I was getting off the phone was to the news papers who might be slightly interested in my story and my next five calls were to my Federal Politician who might take some interest in contacting your supervisors after at least five phone calls.

Anyway the issue of my Residency was quickly forgotten : )

/ hugz ; )

Truly citizens should be able to sue their public servants when those public servants are to stupid even for government work . . .