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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Koon declines to elaborate on why the agency changed the fingerprinting system, but said that the new naturalization process had long been a concern of INS Commissioner Doris Meissner...

Author: By Marc J.ambinder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Laws Complicate Foreign Students' Lives | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...Joan Meissner, who paid $40 to a scalper for an obstructed-view seat, to (not) see the final Celtics game in the Boston Garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUOTES OF THE WEEK | 5/12/1995 | See Source »

...process can take 10 years or more, and applicants often simply disappear while it is under way. Asylum cases are piling up faster than they can be cleared, with the Immigration and Naturalization Service falling farther behind every year. At her confirmation hearings at the end of September, Doris Meissner, Clinton's nominee as commissioner of the INS, conceded, "The asylum system is broken, and we need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Quite So Welcome Anymore | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

Reno did win the battle to name her own pick for the crucial Criminal Division, pulling in Jo Ann Harris, 60, a distinguished former prosecutor from New York, and Doris Meissner, an immigration-reform specialist, to head the INS. And, says a close adviser, "Janet has had total veto power over everyone. But she's not going to keep score. She doesn't think in those terms, and you couldn't get her to talk in those terms." Friends say Reno has no regrets about not being part of Clinton's inner circle. As a White House aide remarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth, Justice and the Reno Way | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

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