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December 22, 2004
US Slipping in For Students
A quick note, I assert that whatever the security concerns, barring students and the like at such levels is [security] penny-wise [security] pound foolish
A long term and non trivial loss.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/21/national/21global.html?ei=5090&en=3ee2e6351e33d817&ex=1261285200&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=all&position=
Let me add the following, I recently heard from some officials here a illustrative (and I assure you true) story of how "security" concerns have trumped reason in visa granting for the USA: Embassy organized an AML (jargon in finance: Anti Money Laundering, the new whack off subject) for the Central Bank here. This took some arm twisting ( I can verify independantly that local CB peeps are not all that enthusiastic about USG AML efforts, which feel rather strong armish in a kind of blind of way per them, although given their complete opacity re off shores I think they complain perhaps too much), but then the visa section ... rejected the apps.
I have hard time understanding this. USG sets up prog stateside for local CBs and then USG... rejects visas. Chinese walls are great, but not when it makes one look like an incompetent chimp.
Posted by The Lounsbury at December 22, 2004 12:01 AM
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