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...called upon to design a job description so specific that no one except their clients -- who may already hold the jobs illegally -- are likely to qualify. On occasion, wholesale lying is involved; attorneys have been involved in setting up bogus companies that do nothing but substantiate the credentials of visa seekers...
...leave but also the confidence and commitment of those who remain. That loss is poignantly dramatized in an image common to most Third World capitals: the long line that snakes each weekday around the U.S. embassy. In Mexico, most applicants must wait eight years for a U.S. immigrant visa. In India, 140,000 people are on the waiting list for 20,000 annual U.S. immigrant visas. Most difficult of all, perhaps, is Hong Kong, where nearly 31,000 people have applied for the 600 places available each year. That could mean a wait of more than 50 years...
...Porizkova moved to Sweden with her parents, and by 18 she had dazzled much of Europe as a top Paris model. Then she came to New York City where she now earns $300,000 a year with the Elite modeling agency. She is here on a working visa and has not yet decided to seek citizenship. "What I love and hate about the U.S. are the same things. I hate that there is so little culture here. This is such a young country that it seems nouveau riche. But what is also so great about the U.S. is that because...
...catalyst, however. In New York City, for instance, the Susan Harder Gallery is showing his pictures of gardens and flowers, while the International Center of Photography is planning an exhibit of later work for next year. "It only took them 24 hours to get me a visa," Kertesz once lamented. "But it took them 35 years to discover me." There are discoveries still to come...
Does America need a new credit card? Sears thinks so. The nation's largest retailer will soon test-market its Discover credit card, which will compete against American Express and Visa. Sears will try out its orange-and-black piece of plastic this fall in Atlanta. The card will be accepted by Denny's restaurants, Hospital Corp. of America, American Airlines and Budget Rent a Car, as well as Sears stores. Holiday Inns is reportedly expected to sign...