In order to apply for papers to leave for the mainland, migrants need to get to the island's capital, Mytilene, 40 miles to the south.
In 1992, we applied for papers and went on an interview through an American agency in Moscow".
My co-worker, a Sunni and a former financial trader, thinks that democracy is a good thing -- "Arabs need reform and modernity; in thousands of years, not even one word has been added to the Arabic dictionary" -- but she just applied for papers to move to Australia.
Outside the city passport office on Saturday afternoon, dozens of Iraqis milled about, waiting to apply for travel papers.
For four months they paid our rent, they took us to apply for our papers – social security, work permits, food stamps, medical benefits.
Thousands of illegal immigrants with children in French schools hastened to meet an amnesty deadline today to apply for residency papers.
Non-European holders of at least a French master's degree or equivalent will have six months after graduation to find a "first work experience" and apply for working papers.
The program allowed illegal immigrants already living in Spain to apply for residency papers if they did not have a criminal record and if their employers agreed to provide them with a written contract to work for at least six months.
After Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping launched the country's historic economic reforms in the late 1970s, the family's business headquarters in Hong Kong helped Tse apply for immigration papers.
This program offers deferred action on immigration cases as a temporary reprieve from the constant threat of deportation, as well as the right to apply for working papers and driver's licenses.
