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...International students are also consistently impeded from U.S. educational opportunities. Anyone seeking academic or vocational visas (F, J, and M visas) may have to pay up to $200 when new changes take effect on October 1, 2009. International students already come largely from high-income backgrounds, as they are not eligible for federal assistance and must consider the costs of travel in their education budget. Consequently, there is little socioeconomic diversity among this pool of applicants. Visa fees need not serve as another obstacle to socioeconomic diversification. The fee hike announced in April is directed at improving the Student...
...potential PR disaster was averted by President Medvedev issuing a decree to automatically grant visas to all British fans holding a valid ticket to the game. Obtaining visas had become more difficult in recent months as Moscow-London relations sank to a low ebb in a series of tit-for-tat moves following Britain rejecting Russia's demands to extradite tycoon Boris Berezovsky and Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev, while Russia turned down British demands to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, prime suspect in the murder of former Russian security officer Aleksander Litvinenko. It would be premature, however, to judge the blanket visa...
...deputy, Tomislav Nikolic, appeared to have backfired, triggering another victory for Tadic, who only narrowly defeated Nikolic at the presidential polls earlier this year. The E.U. also helped Tadic by signing a Stabilization and Association Agreement - a first step toward membership - with Serbia in late April and relaxing visa requirements, which effectively prevented ordinary Serbs from traveling to the West...
...applying for any entry permit to China in Hong Kong-a sign, perhaps, of China's concern about a potential Muslim terror threat. Mohammed Salim, a Karachi-based trader who makes his living selling fake watches from China, says consular authorities in Pakistan instructed him to obtain his Chinese visa in Hong Kong. But after arriving he was told he would only get a visa for the mainland if he returned to his home country. "They do this just because of where I'm from," he says. "They don't care that I have a family to feed...
...Olympics. "They're having a few jitters, but China isn't going to cut off its nose to spite its face," says Kent Kedl, a consultant at Technomic Asia, a Shanghai-based market strategy firm. Plans are already afoot to give Hong Kong permanent residents of any nationality visa-free access to the mainland within the next few years, the kind of privilege that millions of Asians who work in the West can only dream about. "Getting my Chinese staff to the U.S. is an absolute nightmare," says Kedl. "Let's have a bit of perspective...