Popa – they’ve gotten much stricter since your days. Now they make people pay big huge fines when leaving the country if their visa expired too long ago. They will also refuse to allow you back into the country and if your parents paid $20,000 for your year in sem, you’d sure better be able to get back in here to finish it. The procedure to renew your tourist visa is the same as getting a student visa, so they figure out who you are then anyway. It’s a lot of bureaucracy. They also changed the rules and it’s either free or pretty cheap now to get a student visa. It used to cost a fortune. I remember paying almost 200 shekels per person in my family, including the kids. Now you just pay one fee for the head of the family.
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