Members of a Romanian group were also refused visas after questions were raised about some of their members' reasons for wanting to come to Wales.

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To get Coatue going they had to spend more than six months obtaining visas for a group of Russian scientists from Siberia and a couple of years tinkering with the science in the lab.

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British Embassy officials in Armenia became suspicious when several young single men - who had joined a folkdance group the previous November - applied for visas to compete at the eisteddfod.

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As the Cross-Party Balanced Migration Group has argued, it is essential we break that link between temporary visas and permanent settlement.

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Last year, when we visited Motivatit Seafoods in Houma, Louisiana, we met a group of Mexican women who were brought into the United States with H2B visas, part of the guest-worker program.

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While family sponsorship is still the most important entry route for Asians (as for all immigrants), this group is three times more likely than other recent immigrants to come to the U.S. on visas arranged through employers.

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