Well, he was never going to be permitted to settle in the United States.
He was permitted to settle in England, where he remained until his death.
In the late seventies, after the Cultural Revolution, when the first American correspondents were permitted to settle in the country, China was so exotic that practically everything was news.
Marked "UK/Libya Eyes Only – Secret", it explains that members of the LIFG had been permitted to settle in the UK in the 1990s.
Ten years before Bouchar's abduction and rendition, many of her husband's associates had been permitted to settle in Britain.
…Andrade reached Guangzhou (Canton) in China; in 1542 Portuguese merchants were permitted to settle at Liampo (Ningbo), and in 1557 they founded the colony of Macau (Macao).
Another species of table altogether is on display in a cosmopolitan New York office, where Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, a vice president in Estée Lauder's cosmetics empire, rules over perfectly ordered museum-of-modern-art interiors, and where no dust is permitted to settle.
He had forged close contacts with a number of influential British figures around the time of the 1996 Russian election, which saw Yeltsin defeat a communist challenger, and was permitted to settle in the UK.
Two other issues that would mollify the Israelis are an assertion that Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war of independence would be permitted to settle in a future state of Palestine but not in Israel itself, and a reference to an Israeli security presence along the Jordan River.
Mostly, though, as Peter Ackroyd observed in his life-loving London: The Biography, "despite violent acts inspired by demagoguery and financial panic, the immigrant communities of the city have generally been permitted to settle down, engage with their neighbours in trade, adopt English as their native language, intermarry and bring up their children as Londoners".
