You should apply for a tourist visa at a US consulate so you can get a comprehensive evaluation of your admissibility. While your unauthorized stay in the United States from 1998-2003 should have rendered you inadmissible, you were evaluated as admissible when you were granted a F-1 visa in 2003. Even you were issued a student visa in error, that period of inadmissibility ended in 2013. I see no reason why you would be found inadmissible today
If you are inadmissible, however, you won't win a 212(d)(3) waiver with those reference letters
If you are inadmissible, however, you won't win a 212(d)(3) waiver with those reference letters
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