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Zedginidze, a citizen of the Republic of Georgia, was forced to return to his country when his visa expired earlier this fall. He could not be reached for comment...
...most direct route to Libya, but learns it is too dangerous for a Somali to travel there without proper documentation. For more than a month, he goes every other day to the Sudanese consulate to request an entry visa. Finally an official makes it clear that if he doesn't want to wait indefinitely, it will cost some extra cash. He slips the official $100, pays another $90 to a uniformed man at the border, and after four days on the bus arrives in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. It is April 8. He catches a city bus to the International...
...Central council of Jews in Germany. "The change now is that people are getting more outspoken. They don't see the same amount of risk in making anti-Semitic statements." 9.30 P.M., SUNDAY NIKAIA, GREECE Iftikhar Aslam came to Greece from Pakistan three years ago on a student visa. He soon had to give up his studies to work at a plastic factory to send money home. On the night of Nov. 9, he was walking home from evening prayers through this working-class suburb of Athens with five friends. "We were passing through a local square, and these everyday...
...burger and fries or a new winter coat is still largely a futuristic notion in the U.S. and Europe. Yet parts of Asia are making serious strides toward mobile finance as a fully functional reality. In Japan, telecom NTT DoCoMo and financial firms Nippon Shinpan and Visa International are rolling out the second test phase of an infrared-enabled payment system, which will include 1,000 merchants and 10,000 consumers. Peddlers of the technology have gained an even greater foothold in South Korea, a cell phone--obsessed society in which wireless providers are competing for market share with...
...America’s new attitude towards international students has extended beyond simply keeping track of them to actually diminishing their ranks. In the last two years, the number of student visas issued to students from Middle Eastern countries has fallen drastically, by over 60 percent, even from countries that are officially friends of America such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Applying for a visa has become a harrowing and slow process—a Harvard undergraduate from Malaysia waited three and a half months for his visa, finally being obliged to defer entry for a year, while a Harvard...