The root cause, officials say, is the post-9/11 reassignment of 1,000 agents who used to issue documents and now do extensive security checks of every applicant instead.
The family of four underwent "extensive security checks" over a two-year period before they were approved for entry into the country.
It takes multiple years and involves multiple agencies — the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the FBI, and so on — that conduct extensive security checks and interviews.
Passengers hoping to board El Al planes are subjected to extensive security checks, which often include body searches and minute inspection of the articles they are trying to bring aboard.
After an early crush of backlogged passengers and the introduction of more extensive security checks, the Lester B. Pearson International Airport in Toronto is now more likely to be nearly empty much of the day.
America has not always been so welcoming to Khan, who claims he is forced to endure rude treatment and extensive security checks almost every time he travels to the US simply because he is Muslim.
A 33-year-old Iraqi father of two who worked seven years for a contractor that supplied American troops said he and his family had been granted visas for relocation to Charlotte, N.C., after passing extensive security checks.
Jastram says that because Syrian refugees have to undergo such extensive security checks for U.S. resettlement — it generally takes 18 to 24 months, and sometimes longer, to be accepted — people who want to cause the U.S. harm wouldn't enter the country as a refugee.
It is known by the U.S. embassy that five or more Bolivian aircraft were released with higher drug contents". In an extensive memorandum summarizing the situation, Lacy noted that his company has done charter work for film companies and former Presidents of the United States--who were accommodated, he said, after extensive security checks by the Secret Service.
MEPs criticise a number of member states for "very restrictive and discriminatory preferences, such as granting relocation only to single mothers or excluding applicants from specific nationalities, such as Eritreans, and applying very extensive security checks".
