Word: visas
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...According to Hien, she had a proposition for him. "She said she knew everyone who works in the consulate," Hien, 30, recalls. "She said, 'There's no need for you to worry anymore. Auntie will take care of everything.'" A week later, Hien found himself with a U.S. immigrant visa-approved, he says, by the same Vietnamese staffer of the consulate who had rejected him previously. There was only one catch: Hien had to travel with his new "family," four Vietnamese whom he believes had paid the woman, Nguyen Thi Thanh Phuong, up to $20,000 to secure them visas...
...they're scammed as well. Undetected until recently, a network of brokers has for years been using Amerasians to traffic Vietnamese into the U.S. Eleven people, including Phuong, have been arrested for providing Amerasians with false identities and matching them with people willing to pay for a U.S. resident visa (those detained have pleaded not guilty and await trial). Since the Amerasian Homecoming Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1987, some 23,000 Amerasians and 67,000 of their relatives have emigrated to the U.S. How many of those kin are fake may never be known...
...seems every time Jimmy Carter applies for a visa, somebody in the U.S. government flinches. This week Carter will become the first U.S. president - in or out of office - to visit Cuba since the Castro seized power in 1959. Pro-trade American farmers see Carter's mission as a potential icebreaker between the two nations; others who believe Castro has brought about progressive policies in health care and education applaud Carter for recognizing that Castro is a caring communist, not a murderous thug. And official permission for the trip was granted by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets...
Most Harvard students have, at one time or another, descended into the bowels of the Science Center, either on their way to Lecture Hall E, the official residence of many a Science A Core class, or to the first-year mailroom, the official residence of the unsolicited Visa application. But few students notice the sign that designates Harvard’s rich collection of historical scientific instruments housed in the Science Center’s basement. Perhaps even fewer realize that Harvard’s collection of “hysterical” scientific instruments is also housed...
...bill that passed the House last December and is expected to win Senate approval this week will require that by the year 2003 all foreign visitors must submit fingerprints and other biometric data, which will be encoded in a tamper-proof visa document. The U.S. State Department will be able to access the FBI/CIA database while considering whether to grant a visa. The Immigration and Naturalization Service and the U.S. Customs authorities will also have access to the names and details in FBI/CIA terror intelligence database when screening visitors at ports of entry...