Sentence examples for visa authorities from inspiring English sources

Some cases border on the absurd; Taras Prokhasko, a well-known Ukrainian author, was asked by visa authorities to prove that he really is a writer.

Officials in Congress said they expected a select panel to spend more than a year examining every governmental function that should have prevented the attacks, from intelligence agencies to visa authorities.

A visa, the authorities said, would be given to the Israeli doubles player Andy Ram for the coming men's tournament.

MIAMI — More than 80 people have been arrested in connection with a language school here that the government says was a front for the sale of fraudulent applications for student visas, immigration authorities said Thursday.

Visitors can enter without a visa and the authorities charge no taxes.

One team had been forced to switch to a Nepali peak at the last minute after being refused a visa by Chinese authorities.

In 2009, Der Spiegel correspondent Hasnain Kazim was denied a visa because Indian authorities deemed his articles "overly critical and biased".

In Malaysia, it's also illegal for asylum seekers to work without a visa, but the authorities turn a blind eye and most can find work in the construction or service industries.

Anastasia Lin, who emigrated to Canada as a teenager and lives in Toronto, said that to receive a visa, Chinese immigration authorities required her and a number of other contestants to obtain an invitation letter from the local Chinese partners involved in organizing the Dec. 19 pageant in the southern city of Sanya.

The Sudanese government refuses me visas, but the authorities in the south let me enter from Kenya without a visa because they want the word to get out that war is again looming.

But a print of "The Winds of the Milky Way" won the New York prize, and his 1976 history of Estonia, "Silverwhite," gave Mr. Meri the leverage to wrest visas from the authorities to travel overseas.