According to the state news media, the man had gone to the bureau on Monday to register his fourth child for permanent residency, but had been refused the registration because he had not paid a fine for having multiple children.
When Tam applied to register the name of his all-Asian dance-rock band, the Slants, he meant to reclaim an epithet for Asians as a badge of pride, but the government refused the registration on the grounds that the name was likely disparaging to people of Asian descent.
"Separately, Leeds United have been informed that the Football League has refused the registration of Andrea Tabanelli as the transfer did not comply with League regulations".
"The decision to refuse LEGABIBO registration was taken under the mistaken belief that the applicants intended to engage in homosexual practice, which is a crime," he added.
Those last two roles make it possible for top power brokers to shadow lobby - they go unregistered simply by evading formal registration and refusing the accept the title of lobbyist, even if lobbying is essentially what they are doing.
The government has denied the accusations but has refused to open the registration rolls to scrutiny.
But he has repeatedly said the reconciliation process was on ice because Hamas leaders had refused to allow the registration of new voters in Gaza, where officials estimate there are as many as 300,000 who were not signed up for the last election, in 2006.
In 1965 she led a voter registration drive during which as many as 500 blacks were refused the certificate in one day.
Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said the law "could too easily be used to refuse registration or close down organisations that serve the public interest".
The 1995 approval, Judge Coughenour noted in his order, was rendered "with no analysis or explanation for its reversal of the original decision to refuse registration".
