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Harvard instituted a policy this spring refusing involvement with Saudi Arabia because of the country's visa restrictions on Jews and other entering foreigners...
...Saudi Arabian government requires that people must state their religion before acquiring entrance visas. The Foreign Ministry must specially authorize a Saudi consulate before a Jew is issued a visa...
...returned to Moscow. He secured a well-paid job as medical editor in the Ministry of Health. He bought a refrigerator. He bought a car. He mar ried. With the tireless help of a letter-writing sister, the wife of a United Nations official, he eventually acquired an exit visa. In December 1971, 23 years after his arrest, 38 years after he had last seen New York, he landed at Kennedy Airport...
...mother left without papers. She had a permanent visa because she worked with an international company, but after the fall of Da Nang all visas were declared illegal and everyone was forbidden to leave Vietnam. Those who could, however, did, regardless of papers. The situation was desperate because so many wanted to get out. Many people who should have gotten out didn't. I heard of someone who had worked for the CIA for ten years and he couldn't get out, but prostitutes and other people who didn't have to flee to save their lives got out because...
There are about 280 Vietnamese students in the Boston area. Their visa restrictions have been waived by the Department of Justice, so they will not be required to return home after they graduate. Special legislation on the naturalization of these students has not yet been considered by the U.S. government, absorbed with the settlement of the Vietnamese refugees, and for the time being they will be naturalized under the lengthy normal immigration procedures...