Word: visas
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...need for heightened database security has been exposed repeatedly, thanks to high-profile thefts of sensitive information. These include the raiding of CD Universe's customer credit-card database in 2000 or the pilfering that year of patients' records from the University of Washington Medical Center. Visa and MasterCard have released guidelines to member banks and online merchants on measures each credit-card company expects them to take to protect card numbers. Congress, meanwhile, has passed laws demanding that financial institutions and health-care companies protect customer information...
...security measures, he was stuck at home in Tehran. Asked about the matter, Kiarostami gives a modest shrug of resignation. "Perhaps you should write a piece on the role of terrorists in filmmaking," he says. New U.S. immigration rules require a 90-day background check on some visa applicants, making it especially difficult for men from Muslim countries to obtain entry permits. When Kiarostami - whose 1997 Taste of Cherry won the best picture award at Cannes - submitted his visa request at the U.S. embassy in Paris, he learned he would not be granted one before December. Another director might have...
...assisted Kiarostami in the visa procedure by extending an official invitation, said HFA Assistant Curator Steffen Pierce...
Though Kiarostami knew the background checks could not be completed in time for the debut, he had assumed that because he frequently travels to the U.S., there would be no problem with getting his visa in time, said Graham Leggat, communications director for the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which runs the film festival...
...done before other U.S. visits, including a May 2000 interview at the HFA, Kiarostami waited until a few weeks before the conference to travel to Paris and apply for a visa at the U.S. Embassy...