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Hartstein felt that transactions were needlessly complicated by the requirement that payment be made only by certified check or money order. Now a onetime spouse only needs to visit one of four offices, whip out a Visa card and charge the payment. It can also be done by phone. Says Hartstein: "It's the same process as if you call and charge theater tickets...
...Rhodesia, he held a British passport. When Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in April of that year, the British government revoked his passport and advised him to apply for a Zimbabwean one. The length of time involved in corresponding with Salisbury caused Brutus to apply late for an extension of his visa to stay in the United States. Although he notified INS that he was applying late and was assured that he would be excused, immigration officials later cited Brutus's tardiness as one reason for refusing to extend his visa...
Claiming that changes in personnel and the loss of Brutus's file had caused the long delay, the INS denied Brutus's visa request in January 1981 and set a deadline of March 5 for his voluntary departure from the United States. Besides the lateness of his application, the major reason the INS gave for its decision was that Brutus had accepted permanent employment as a tenured professor while his visa only granted him temprorary residence...
...immigration service's decision and twice receiving extensions of the deportation deadline, Brutus was given a hearing to show cause why he should not be forced to leave. Although an immigration judge ruled last November that Brutus was deportable, INS said it would allow him to request a new visa if he would leave the country and apply through a U.S. consulate. Brutus was willing to go along with INS's plan as long as the agency would guarantee him that he could reenter the United States. When INS refused to provide that assurance, he applied to the State Department...
...Atlantic Richfield Co., the eighth largest American gasoline retailer, an nounced that it was getting out of the credit-card business altogether. After April 15, Arco gas stations will accept neither its own blue-and-gray cards, which are held by more than 3 million people, nor those of Visa, American Express or other credit companies. Industry experts predict that other big gasoline retailers will eventually drop out of or cut back on the credit business. The most widely held cards now used are those of Amoco (7 million) and Exxon (6.5 million...