Visas for foreign journalists are hard to come by; entering Deraa, except in rare cases with an official minder, has been impossible.

外国记者的签证很难拿到；要进入德拉采访根本不可能，除了少数地方要由官方的随行人员陪同。

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Congress now caps visas for foreign workers, a clunky system that does not match supply too precisely with demand.

现在国会给外国工人以签证保护，这样刻板的系统并不能使得劳动力供给与需求相符。

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The foreign staff’s troubles began, BP says, when an employee who is also a shareholder of AAR deliberately applied for the wrong number of visas.

BP声称，外籍员工的麻烦始自一名雇员（他也是AAR的股东）有意搞错了申请签证的数量。

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But he also says many visas are delayed because foreign students do not bring all their paperwork when requesting their travel documents.

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It is easy to come across Afghans who claim that they were wrongly denied foreign visas or jobs after a biometric scan flagged up their presence on some watchlist.

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In addition to providing a pathway to legalize 12 million illegal immigrants, Gutierrez proposes to manage future immigrant flow by establishing a commission that ties foreign visas to labor market demand.

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While American companies also compete to obtain the foreign guest worker visas, most are not as dependent on the visas as Indian companies, industry representatives said.

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