Word: visaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-Hitler newspaper work I had done in Vienna, and I had to go into hiding. The dominant thought of all of us hunted for political, racial, or both reasons, was to get out. Under the quota I would have to wait two years to get my U.S. immigration visa. Meanwhile, the problem was to keep alive and away from the Gestapo...
...finally made my way to Paris. The war broke out; I was handed a gas mask and told to go to Bordeaux for my American visa. Months later I escaped to London. Then, exactly on the dot, two years after applying, I received my American immigration visa. I arrived in Manhattan at night and immediately went to a friend who lived near Inwood Park. At dawn I rushed to the window to see the skyscrapers. I saw only the park's rocks, trees, squirrels and blue-jays. I decided then and there that I was going to like...
Last month Beirut gossip mills had new grist. The Amazer, they said, had asked for a U.S. visa. His destination: California, to attend a spiritualist convention...
This week Bevin's ideal will be partially fulfilled. An agreement will be signed in London abolishing visa requirements for French and British citizens who cross the English Channel for short visits in France or Britain. Formal negotiations with The Netherlands and Belgium will probably come next...
...France. On the morning of Oct. 3 he boarded a train bound for the French frontier. At the border a P.I.D.E. guard told him: "You haven't got an exit permit; so you can't continue." Displaying his expulsion document, Saporiti said: "What more of an exit visa could you want?" The guard went away; the Saporitis entered France...