Word: consular
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...lower caste by treating their vows of love as suspect and second-rate. Trevor Scott and Naseem Saunders are a case in point. A native of Jamaica, Scott, 37, applied for a visa at the U.S. consulate in Kingston to travel to Chicago to marry Saunders, 47. But a consular official decided Scott was marrying the older woman as a shortcut into the U.S. and refused to issue the proper papers. Only intervention by several Chicago dignitaries produced the visa. Says Scott: "I was treated like a criminal...
...have a sufficiently tough challenge in securing Iraq in the face of insurgency and sectarian conflict, it has now added curbing Iran to its to-do list. Last week's raid in the Kurdish city of Erbil on a building claimed by Iran and the Kurds as a consular facility that saw the arrest of five Iranian officials signaled the onset of an aggressive push-back against Iranian influence in Iraq. And it's not only the Iranians that are unhappy about the new development...
...United States issued 22,728 immigrant visas to children in 2005 according to the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs. My home, Guatemala, is near the top of the donor list having lost close to 3,800 children to the Untied States that same year...
...with "a free flow of people, workers" moving between the two countries. When U.S. opposition to the proposal intensified after 9/11, Fox sought the same goal through the back door. He pushed U.S. businesses and city and state governments to accept as legal identification a card called a matricula consular, issued by Mexican consulates. That has allowed illegals to secure driver's licenses and other forms of identification and open bank accounts. Earlier this year Fox pushed U.S. bankers to make it easier for Mexicans working here--some of them legally but most illegally--to ship U.S. dollars back home...
...visual and environmental studies thesis on political propaganda. While aboard his departure flight at Harare airport on Dec. 30, he was arrested and detained for “possessing videocassettes related to his research,” a spokeswoman for the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, Angela P. Aggeler, wrote in an e-mail...