Word: consular
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...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...
...Chinese nationals awaiting their swearing-in ceremony as U.S. citizens. But Andrew was born in America, and is already a citizen. His detention, therefore, violated a consular agreement between the U.S. and China to inform each other of citizens' detentions within four days. That explains part of the U.S. outrage. But the case, at least the fourth in the past six years, gave the Bush Administration a welcome chance to put teeth into its proclaimed interest in human rights...
...Chinese nationals awaiting their swearing-in ceremony as U.S. citizens. But Andrew was born in America, and is already a citizen. His detention, therefore, violated a consular agreement between the U.S. and China to inform each other of citizens' detentions within four days. That explains part of the U.S. outrage. But the case, at least the fourth in the past six years, gave the Bush Administration a welcome chance to put teeth into its proclaimed interest in human rights...
...origin for forty days in 1998. After his release, he claimed both that he was tortured and that the United States Consulate General in Jerusalem, charged with the protection of American citizens in other countries, did nothing to prevent it. The American, Anwar Mohammed of Orlando, Fla., accuses American consular officials of ignoring the physical evidence of his mistreatment and of not attending the Israeli military court that authorized the security services to hold him for further questioning...