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Music professor barred from US for unknown reasons
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:04:05 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu> Date: September 17, 2007 2:36:33 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Music professor barred from US for unknown reasons There's a disturbing article in today's NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/nyregion/17musicologist.html) about a British music professor who has been excluded from the US after ten years, without explanation: After a year of letters and inquiries, Ms. Ghuman and her Mills College lawyer have been unable to find out why her residency visa was suddenly revoked, or whether she was on some security watch list. Nor does she know whether her application for a new visa, pending since last October, is being stymied by the shadow of the same unspecified problem or mistake. All Customs and Border Protection will say is that they had to exclude her because her visa was revoked by the State Department. The State Department won't say why it did that. There's nothing obvious in her background to suggest that she's a security risk, nor even that she's offended anyone with what should be First Amendment-protected speech. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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