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During a mid-1880s visit to Shamian, the Shaoguan-based Wesleyan missionary John Turner described "a beautiful island, fronted with lawns and flower gardens, with the foreign consular and merchants' houses standing behind them, on either side of an avenue of banyan trees." That quaint scene greets today's visitors, too, thanks largely to late-'90s restoration, a combination of government and private initiatives. All of the old buildings now bear plaques describing their history, which makes a walking tour of the 3-sq-km island both possible and pleasant...
...orange cones. Senator Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary's immigration subcommittee and a longtime champion of open borders, will introduce legislation next week to produce new passports replete with fingerprints that would initiate instant background checks. Less flashy but no less crucial is training for the 900 consular officers who grant visas from State Department outposts across the globe...
...Most of the news about Indonesia that reaches the U.S. comes from the cities of Java - Jakarta, Surabaya, Solo and Yogyakarta - where demonstrations are held frequently outside US consular facilities. This is where extremist groups generally issue their threats, warning that Americans and foreigners will be "swept" out of the country by Islamic groups. The problem has been not so much the threats themselves as the government?s lack of response to them. Instead of condemning the intimidation, the government seems to first avoid making any comment and then, when pressed, to assure people that the extremists are far more...
...four doomed jets took off the morning of September 11th, members of the House of Representatives were preparing to take up House provision 245 (I), a measure which would allow non-legal residents to claim green cards at local INS offices, rather than requiring a trip abroad to consular offices. It was expected to pass handily, despite some deep-seated resistance from conservative groups...
...visa, a foreign student must be accepted by an American college, then pass a cursory interview with a consular official. About 35% get rejected. But once foreign students get to the U.S., there is little attempt to track them. Remarkably, the INS still communicates with colleges via paper and pencil. That should have changed after the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, in which the driver of the explosives-filled van was in the U.S. on an expired student visa. In 1995 Congress ordered the creation of a database of all foreign students; colleges would have to tell...