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The presence of invalid instruments is the primary concern for practical applications, and a fast-growing area of research is inference for the causal effect with possibly invalid instruments. This paper illustrates that the existing confidence intervals may undercover when the valid and invalid instruments are hard to separate in a data-dependent way. To address this, we construct uniformly valid confidence intervals that are robust to the mistakes in separating valid and invalid instruments. We propose to search for a range of treatment effect values that lead to sufficiently many valid instruments. We further devise a novel sampling method, which, together with searching, leads to a more precise confidence interval. Our proposed searching and sampling confidence intervals are uniformly valid and achieve the parametric length under the finite-sample majority and plurality rules. We apply our proposal to examine the effect of education on earnings. 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