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Once a student winds up his studies in America, however, he faces a problem: it is not that easy to stay on. To obtain a permanent visa, students need some skill that is in short supply in the U.S., a requirement few can meet. The State Department is considering granting asylum to the pro-Shah students, who would be in peril if they went home. Others, without this protection, may follow the course of so many foreigners and slip into the shadowy world of illegal aliens. For all the drawbacks of that way of life, many students would doubtless prefer...
...passport had just been stamped at the customs house at the Khyber Pass on the border with Pakistan when the shooting began. "It's the Muslim fanatics!" cried the Afghan immigration official, as he dived for cover into a pile of crumpled visa forms. Outside, border guards with flapping puttees, braying donkeys, and assorted smugglers and baggage handlers churned about in confusion. Quiet soon returned, but the rebels had made their point. "Very, very bad this jihad [holy war]," a local tea vendor muttered. "The mujahidin are everywhere...
Talk about embarrassing moments. There was Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal in San Francisco's tony Beethoven's restaurant with a hefty dinner bill, an expired Visa card and a waiter demanding extra identification for an out-of-state bank check. Blumenthal solved his predicament uniquely: producing a dollar bill, he invited the waiter to match the check signature against the neat W M Blumenthal inscribed on the greenback's lower right-hand corner...
...Shah, meanwhile, was vacationing on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, still brooding about where and how he will spend his years in exile. He would like to come to the U.S. TIME has learned that President Carter has dispatched two emissaries to advise him not to apply for a visa. In defense of this repudiation of an old ally, Administration officials cite both the enormous security problem that the Shah's presence would create as well as the difficulties that the U.S. would have in improving relations with the new revolutionary government of Iran...
...University official said Thursday the visa enforcement policy is not new, but that after the Iranian riot the INS wanted to re-affirm its position publicly. "The INS was embarrassed that they really didn't know what foreign students were doing," the official said...