Current Edition About Subscribe The Jerusalem Center

Daily Alert Archive

Every Daily Alert Since 2002

Search

Search more than 90,000 news items by topic, author, or source.
Use " " to search for multiple words and phrases.

Trending Topics

August 25, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/27142.htm

9 in 10 Still Get Saudi Visas

(New York Post) Joel Mowbray - Despite supposed reforms implemented by the State Department, nearly 90% of all Saudi visa applicants get approved. Applicants in most other Arab nations - the ones that didn't send us 15 of 19 9/11 hijackers - are refused visas three to five times more often than Saudis. The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, found in October 2002 that "consular officers in Saudi Arabia issued visas to most Saudi applicants without interviewing them, requiring them to complete their applications, or providing supporting documentation."

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive

Subscribe to Daily Alert: