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...most unwelcome guest; the Russians took him only because Souvanna insisted. The first night Wilde spent restricted to his hotel, without a visa, in Communist Hanoi...
...Faster Visas. An important task of the tourist service will be to speed up visa and entry procedures. A major irritant for foreign travelers is the U.S.'s visa requirement, a practice that has all but disappeared in Western Europe. The State Department, however, stoutly maintains that without tight visa regulations, a flood of ineligible foreigners posing as tourists would enter the U.S. with every intention of staying; deportation proceedings against these people would be difficult, time consuming and costly (an estimated $3,000 per person...
...consulates abroad have done much to simplify visa applications. Only suspect applicants, e.g., Communists, those with police records or no financial resources, are forced to fill out the long visa application form. Sample warnings: a caution that anyone who has "engaged in prostitution or will engage in immoral sexual acts" or anyone who is "likely to become a public charge" will be excluded. Except for such cases, most applicants just give pertinent information (name, date and place of birth) to clerks who transcribe it on the short visa form. The whole process usually takes less than 20 minutes...
...eventually even the Cubans could not stomach the man they called "the butcher." Last May, Marks fled Cuba in a boat, made it to Florida and disappeared into Mexico. Last week he was arrested in Manhattan, charged with illegally entering the U.S. on July 22 without a proper visa. Deportation proceedings are under way to send him back to Mexico-or Cuba...
...Expired Visa. The blow did not fall until Pasternak died last May. Soviet officialdom's first threatening move was both petty and spiteful. Irina, by now a pretty girl in her early twenties, had become engaged to a French student attending school in Moscow. Several weeks after Pasternak's death, the authorities fixed a date for the wedding-ten days after the boy's visa expired. Then he was refused a renewal of his visa and forced to leave Russia...