Word: visa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gates of Fortress Europe moved closer to the locked position last week when Sweden and Denmark announced new immigration restrictions that require Bosnians, as well as Croats, Macedonians and Serbs, to arrive with a valid visa. At the same time, Sweden has told 40,000 Bosnians now in residence that they can stay, but Denmark says its 14,000 Bosnians will be sent home when the civil war in the former Yugoslavia ends. The Danes should not hold their breath...
...farce began in 1990, when the American Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan issued the blind cleric a visa, somehow overlooking the fact that Rahman was on the United States "watch list"--American intelligence had already marked him as a suspected terrorist...
...letter is that the high SAT scores attained by Asian-American students is proof that their culture values education. This is another example of his faulty reasoning. The first and second generation immigrant communities in American represent a small percentage of their respective races. The U.S. visa application process favors highly educated professionals and aggressive working class applicants. These people have a drive to succeed which they likely transmit to their children. There was no such selection process in order to become an American or West Indian slave. Seen in this light, higher academic achievement is not a reflection...
...story of Abdel Rahman's visa shows a need for reform...
State Department officials believe a copy of Khartoum's cable was sent to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, but the INS says it has not found it. All sides agree, however, that when the Khartoum embassy failed to cancel the visa, Washington should have been alerted so that it could tell INS to put Sheik Abdel Rahman on its own watch list. In April 1991 the immigration service made an unexplained error when it gave the sheik a green card attesting permanent resident status, although his visa by then had been revoked and he was in the U.S. illegally...