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They obtain an I-20 form from a college certifying that they can speak or will learn English, that they have adequate academic credentials and that they can pay their way. With the I-20, they are able to get a student visa. They can then complete their education in the U.S. provided they remain enrolled full time. But many become illegal by dropping out, taking a job or staying on after graduation...
...United States insulted the Iranian national honor and the Islamic revolution by giving the deposed Shah a visa. The ex-dictator represents all the pain, torture, humiliation, deprivation and repression suffered for decades by our nation. And just at a time when Iranians believed Washington at least tacitly recognized this fact, the ex-tyrant triumphantly enters New York-a malicious, outrageous, insupportable insult to all the blood that was spilled for the cause of liberation...
...could Washington realistically hope that the Khomeini-dominated regime would not resort to a campaign of reprisals against the U.S., through either an oil embargo or assaults against Americans in Iran. But last month, after the Administration learned that the Shah was seriously ill, it granted him a temporary visa to visit New York City for medical treatment...
...Washington. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Newsom, who is in charge of day-to-day U.S. policy toward Iran, agreed with that assessment. He sought to persuade Secretary of State Cyrus Vance that, regardless of political and humanitarian motives, the granting of even a temporary visa to the Shah would have devastating consequences for American interests in Iran. Vance disagreed, and advised the President to grant the Shah a temporary visa. Carter was glad to make the humanitarian gesture. The Tehran government was assured that the Shah was indeed a sick man, that his visit...
While their comrades were seizing the chancellery, another group of students was breaking into the heavily secured consulate section, which had just been rebuilt (at a cost of $500,000) to speed up the issuance of visas for thousands of Iranians seeking to go to the U.S. One irony of the situation was that in recent weeks the crowds of Iranians around the embassy had been there to try and get visas to the U.S. Noted the English-language Tehran Times: "Despite the public denunciations, the U.S. embassy has often presented the spectacle of being mobbed one day by visa...