Word: visa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within ten years, the treatment of muscle paralysis in polio was revolutionized. Kenny clinics sprang up across the U.S. and in other countries. In 1950, a grateful Congress voted to let Sister Kenny in & out of the U.S. at will, without passport or visa. But night & day work during the Minnesota epidemic of 1946 had undermined her health. Her right side paralyzed by Parkinson's disease, Sister Kenny went back to Queensland, longing for a last look at the jacaranda trees in bloom around her home in Toowoomba. There, this week, she died, aged 66. She had lived...
...Every foreign student with a 4-0 or 3-2 type visa who intends to go to Canada, Cuba, Mexico, or any other country in the Western Hemisphere during the Christmas holidays should leave the United States before December 24 in order to be able to return on his present visa. After the new immigration law (McCarran Act) goes into effect on December 24, any foreign student goes from the U.S. to any country in the Western Hemisphere will be compelled to get an entirely new visa to reenter...
Under the McCarran Act passports must be valied for six months beyond the date for which any U.S. visa is issued. At present passports need only two months' validity...
...Boston Immigration Office last night said as yet it has not received more detailed information about the new visa requirements...
...press frightened the crew, so much so that they dreaded the prospect of Boston photographers and reporters with their incessant "one more please" and questions about their state of finance. All along the way, United States Immigration Authorities fold them to obtain their visas "at the next part." This continued until they got to Miami. There they were told they could not enter the country without a visa. So they would have to go outside the country, to Bermuda or Cuba, and receive visas. Not enthusiastic about this proposition, Mr. and Mrs. Davis and the two crewmen dickered with Immigration...