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...Zealand's Pacific neighbors - especially Niue and the Cook Islands, whose people carry N.Z. passports - are also potential back doors for those seeking a Kiwi identity. In December the government ended visa-free entry for citizens of Nauru, Tuvalu and Kiribati. It's also working with Australia to help Pacific states tighten notoriously lax border controls. "We are constantly vigilant," says Goff. So are most other nations - and they'll now look a little more closely at those blue passports...
Green M.P. Keith Locke protested the changes, saying Kiwis' "human rights are now in the firing line." But for the National party's Mapp, they can't come soon enough. He believes "dangerous people" could slip in "buried in the numbers of people who overstay their visas and those who come in under humanitarian quotas." Buchanan says the latter is unlikely. The country's U.N.-agreed refugee quota is a tiny 750 a year, and of the 1,200 or so people who, like Zaoui, claim refugee status on arrival, fewer than 20% are accepted. "The easiest...
Over the past two years, more than a dozen students were not in Cambridge to submit their fall study cards due to visa-processing delays. Some have had to change their plans entirely, deferring enrollment as much as a year, or making hasty plans to study at universities elsewhere...
...then president of the African National Congress (ANC) and the first African recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1960—having issued a co-authored statement against apartheid in 1962. King himself had received an invitation to speak in South Africa by NUSAS, but was denied a visa by the South African government...
...mail scamming, known as phishing, is on the rise. Phony messages requesting account information and passwords are nearly 800 times as prevalent now as they were last fall, says cybersecurity firm MessageLabs. Consumers should be wary of messages purportedly from Citibank, eBay, PayPal, Wachovia, Visa or Bank of America, as some are scams...