Word: visas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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European, Jack. He begins to get that hostile feeling when he learns that every prospective visitor to the U.S. must call in person at the nearest U.S. consulate for a visa (visas have all but vanished in Western Europe). If lucky, the hopeful traveler will only have to answer the 15 questions listed on the "simplified" application form, which asks the traveler to give his nationality, complexion, race and ethnic classification. One bewildered applicant answered race with "skiing and bobsledding." A French student came closer by stating that he belonged to the Latin race. The consular aide put him straight...
...present monthly income, the amount of cash deposited in banks and an estimate of the value of his other assets. Said a British applicant: "It made me feel like a refugee from Dragnet." In defense of the system a U.S. consul in The Netherlands said, "If we abolished the visa tomorrow, 20,000 Filipinos and 20,000 Italians would travel to the U.S. without a penny in their pockets...
...Association makes passing the test the qualification for internships and residencies in accredited U.S. hospitals-therefore foreign doctors lose their jobs upon failing the test. They lose their right to stay in the U.S. because the State Department makes holding such a hospital job the qualification for keeping a visa...
Goody has not yet worked out all the details of his trip. He is still waiting for a visa to travel in the Soviet Union, but, he declared, the visa will almost certainly be granted...
...sunken-eyed Balkan medico named Stevan Durovic. Now 55, Dr. Durovic got his M.D. at Belgrade in 1930, was a medic in the Yugoslav army when captured by the Italians in World War II. Thanks to a heart condition, P.O.W. Durovic was allowed to leave Italy on a Vatican visa in 1942 for Peron's Argentina...