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...Kazakhstan.” Although Dvortsevoy was originally scheduled to appear for the screenings of his films, he won’t make it to the United States. Brooke Holgerson, Editorial Assistant for the HFA, explains that “[Dvortsevoy] didn’t fill out all the [visa] paperwork in time, and he’s hard to get in touch with because he’s so far away, so it just didn’t work out.” He is currently in Kazakhstan working on his next project, but the films will be screened...
...experience, it is not something that occurs regularly,” he said. “This is really the first instance that I was aware of an actual grant being [potentially] lost over a visa or green card...
...finds in Chaucer,” says Simpson, who had publicized Brinkman’s originally planned Oct. 5 visit to Harvard. But the U.S. Border Patrol had other plans for the Canada native. “I was trying to come [into the U.S.] with a business visa, but I needed a ‘P’ visa, which is specifically for entertainers,” Brinkman says. “It was okay if I came into the country to promote my book as an author, but not if I came into the States as an entertainer...
This June, there’s one important piece of paper that many of the international students of Harvard’s Class of 2007 will not be graduating with: an H-1B visa. As Harvard’s graduates prepare to enter the workforce, for the 10 percent that come from oversees, a diploma will not be enough; they need an H-1B visa to grant them permission to stay and use their degree to perform high-skill jobs in the United States. While their peers look forward to their month of freedom before heading to Wall Street, international...
...been hired for lucrative jobs on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, but international students are waiting to hear if they’ll even be allowed to hold jobs in the country.Harvard’s late graduation date—and an unusually high volume of visa applications—could put some seniors’ and recent graduates’ jobs in jeopardy.And with immigration reform efforts stalled on Capitol Hill, relief may be a long time coming.Some international students in the Class of 2006 were unable to apply for the H-1B visas required to seek...