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To get so-called "top of the waiting list" status you have to be a war pensioner.
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In its report on the wider status of waiting lists, Audit Scotland concluded that in a small number of cases patients had been inappropriately marked as unavailable for treatment, but it could not say whether these were deliberate.
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Some arriving international passengers see it as a sign of status when an attendant is waiting to greet and guide, even if it's a wheelchair attendant.
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There are nearly 1.2 million educated and skilled professionals waiting in line to gain permanent-resident status to the United States.
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That has given the 6ft 3in, 19 stone Cole, who played four matches for the second-string Saxons last season but has started only 21 senior club games, an opportunity to cement his status as a Test prop-in-waiting.
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"Speculation has been rife for many months now as to the status of the Stobie case, in so far as people were waiting for it to collapse, " he said.
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The most direct way to provide more labor mobility, including within a company, is to allow individuals waiting for green cards in the United States (often in H-1B status) to apply for adjustment of status even when a visa number is not yet available.
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It said limited information in the records of patients waiting for treatment meant it was not always possible to identify changes or check that status codes were applied appropriately.
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