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...haven't seen any mechanics yet at the AmericanIdol fifth-season auditions. But there was a dental assistant. And a deputy sheriff. Twinsseveral sets. A husky-voiced Ukrainian chanteuse desperate for a performers' visa. The inventor of the Cosmic Coaster, a floating beverage holder. ("Center it!" he coached judge Paula Abdul as she set her glass teetering on the contraption.) A white guy who said he flunked the audition because America is "prejudiced and racist." And "Flawless," a wispy-bearded dancer of limited talent who appeared to be a perfect candidate for the job of Britney Spears' eventual third...
...forbidden from leaving the Soviet Union for nine years, under accusations of “serious acts against the government.” She says the reasons for her detainment were never fully explained to her. After playing with the American Symphony Orchestra in 1969, Gutman was declined a visa to return to the United States the following year. She says she was told secretly that this restriction resulted from her support of two political dissidents and fellow Russian Jewish musicians, Misha Maisky and Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich. Gutman says she resisted the Soviet government’s insistence that...
...said she did not know how the initiatives will affect Harvard students specifically.But Ladd said the introduction of the initiatives dramatized how far the conversation about foreign students in the U.S. has advanced since the months after 9/11, when increased security measures resulted in an arduous and lengthy visa application process.“In December 2001, a government official in Washington described to me the atmosphere surrounding international students as ‘poisonous,’” Ladd wrote.While Harvard College, unlike many other schools, did not experience a decline in international student enrollment over...
...wherever I go.SSN’s are not absolutely necessary. However, the alternative to the SSN is tedious and burdensome—foreign students without SSN’s have to submit a handful of forms and I.D.’s such a passport, F-1 visa, student I.D., birth certificate, and two to three proofs of current address, when just nine digits would do. Cell phone companies, for example, require an absurd amount of deposit in addition to a number of papers in place of a SSN. I got my phone after depositing $400 to Verizon Wireless.Furthermore...
...broken and does not correspond with our current reality." The bills that have been circulating in Congress take different, sometimes overlapping approaches to the problem. The most divisive issue among them is whether undocumented immigrants should be required to return to their home country before applying for a work visa or whether they could get guest-worker status without leaving the U.S. The second, more lenient option has been attacked by the Minutemen and other conservative groups as tantamount to amnesty...