When bureaucracy gives you something it shouldn't

Epistemic status: two cases and the statute behind them. The first case rests on one side's account in a lawyer's call-in video; I have not seen her file. I am not a lawyer. I could not find a base rate. AI use: a Codex session did the research: pulled the video captions, found the Policy Manual section and the Turfah opinion plus related cases, and summed the fiscal year 2025 totals from USCIS's spreadsheet. Claude then fact-checked every claim against the primary sources, proofread, and wrote the footnotes. The text and the opinions are mine. Bureaucracy is a complex and well-oiled machine. But the individual parts of it are still humans, who make mistakes. I stumbled upon this video , which I found an interesting example of this. [1] It is a conversation between an immigration attorney and a Canadian woman. She married an American citizen and applied for a green card because of that. However, for religious reasons she didn't want to get a tetanus shot. This was already surprising to me - I didn't know there was a religious exception to vaccination when immigrating to the US. [2] Her adviser at the time (not the attorney in the call, and not an attorney at all) told her that in o