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...American politics. There is, however, one aspect of this issue that ought to be quite clear cut: The United States government should seek to facilitate, rather than impede, the immigration of highly skilled internationals who add tremendously to our country and economy. Currently, however, restrictive limits on H-1B Visas??three-year visas issued to high skill professionals and students—are preventing many valuable workers, including foreign graduates of American universities, from contributing to the American economy. Strangely enough, until last week it seemed that the government was moving in the wrong direction on this...
...It’s not just a question of visas??I think it’s an image problem as well. We’re seen as sort of phobic about foreigners,” Kuhn said. “Bad images tend to linger, and we are going to pay a price for this so-called security business...
...United Kingdom, one of the world’s wealthiest countries, has announced that it will not be ready to issue biometric visas until mid-2005. By not providing appropriate communication to the international community in advance, the U.S. has essentially imposed an additional bureaucratic burden—acquiring visas??on all potential visitors. The lack of advance warning may have an undesired deterrent effect on trade and tourism...
This year, more than a dozen foreign students experienced significant delays in getting their visas??and some never made it to Harvard...
...student visa, yet never showed up at school. And in a highly publicized and incredibly embarrassing mistake, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) sent letters to a flight school in Florida saying that Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi could exchange their tourist visas for student visas??six months after they hijacked and crashed jets on Sept...