At that time, those with HIV who wished to visit the United States needed a special 10-day visiting visa as foreign visitors with HIV were barred from entering as a result of immigration law.

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Under most circumstances, non-Iranian nationals do not need a visa to visit Kish.

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She secured a visa to visit Myanmar in the aftermath of the cyclone, providing her with a close-up view of the clash between an isolationist regime and an often ignorant outside world.

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The now-celebrated Sri Lankan priest was denied a visa to enter Italy during his visit to Europe in October to promote his controversial book Mary and Human Liberation.

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He helped him navigate meetings with investors, took him to visit Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, and set him up with lawyers to get him an O-1 visa, for exceptional persons, which might allow him to stay in the U.S. Ternovskiy planned a trip to Las Vegas and bought a bike, a nice one, for twenty-four hundred dollars.

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