US deports visa-holding Iranian scientists on arrival - SciDev.Net: This is a story from last month!
"Dozens of Iranian scientists and engineers who arrived in the United States last week had their visas revoked upon arrival and were asked to leave the country.
The Iranians, whose visas were approved months ago, were due to attend a meeting in California of the Sharif University of Technology Association (SUTA), a global organisation for alumni of Iran's top scientific university.
SUTA's founding president Fredun Hojabri told SciDev.Net that after a two-month delay for security checks, US consulates had granted visas for about half of the 250 Iranians who had applied.
'But when they arrived at the US airports they were told that their visas had been cancelled and they had entered the country illegally,' said Hojabri, a former professor at the University of California in San Diego."
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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