After months of red tape, he says, the government rejected him on the grounds that his title at Disney qualified him as an executive, and football-related knee trauma didn't preclude working at a desk job, despite the fact that leg pain makes it impossible for him to sit for long periods.
In the months that followed, John Davison, 38, (the chatty waiter) and Chris Posner, 35, who together grew the business from its beginnings as a catering company, moved into the new space, opened and then closed in a few weeks after running into red tape.
After two months of red tape, misinformation and obstruction, I received a response: Omar had declined "any sort of interview".
Two other applications for domestic mining rights were snagged in red tape after India's environment minister declared broad areas of the country to be "no-go" regions for mining.
After nine years of red tape and legal battles, the 2,000 capacity venue is finally set to open where the old J.C. Penney department store once stood at 8656 Colesville Rd., just off Georgia Avenue.
Overall, Open Europe found that once the benefits of these rules were deducted, the overall saving that might be achieved by "politically feasible" cuts to red tape after leaving the EU might be about £8.5bn annually – against which would have to be offset all the unquantifiable costs of a Brexit.
PurchasingCenter.com's Sud, for example, abandoned plans to create an Internet messaging company in 1993 after becoming entangled in red tape while trying to acquire technology licenses.
Both are now available after a battle with red tape over visa problems but were kept waiting last Sunday and not included in Denis Betts' unchanged squad for the 36-0 hatmering at Hull KR.
The dog was sent to Bermuda after much red tape to get him out of the country.
Fellow defender Ross Perry misses out again with a calf problem, but young midfielders Chris Hegarty and Andy Mitchell return to the squad after registration red tape.
After decades spent cutting through red tape to begin work on a Metrorail extension and the widening of the Capital Beltway, crews are now stirring up tons of dirt where the black lines are located.
