Newcastle have signed the DR Congo defender Chancel Mbemba from Anderlecht for around £8m, subject to the granting of a work permit.
And now Manchester United have agreed terms to sign Kagawa, subject to the granting of a work permit later in June.
Activists managed to get the TMT's building permit overturned by Hawaii's Supreme Court on a technical issue and hearings are now in progress over the granting of a new permit.
However, there is a possibility opening up through dialogue on the granting of a specified number of work permits to Syrian teachers, leading to salaried remuneration on the Turkish system scales.
But, in a unanimous ruling, the Court of Appeals in Albany deemed the Council's approval unnecessary, arguing that once the Council had passed a resolution permitting the granting of a franchise, its influence ended.
She ordered the department to review the granting of the permit.
The low-key granting of the permit follows two consecutive years in which the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the organizers when city officials moved to block the event.
"The finding of overriding consideration was not supported by substantial evidence," wrote Weiner, "and the granting of the demolition permit by Woodside to Jobs was an abuse of discretion".
Third, there are echoes of a political backlash, particularly in America, over the granting of work permits to Indian engineers and of outsourcing jobs more generally.
