Terri
01-16-2003, 09:08 AM
By Anwar Iqbal and Nicholas M. Horrock
Published 1/15/2003
UPI
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The Bush administration has ordered tough new immigration exit rules and added five more Muslim countries to an alien registration list, as part of major effort to keep track of foreign visitors considered a security risk, United Press International was told Wednesday.
According to officials at the Department of Justice and one at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, male citizens from Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Bangladesh and Indonesia will have to register when they enter the country and those already here must contact the Immigration and Naturalization Service by March 28. This brings to 25 the number of countries, mostly Muslim and many in the Middle East, whose male citizens face special registration if they come to the United States.
Others already listed include: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates. Once registered, visitors from these countries will have to check out through special exit offices when they leave the country or face being barred from reentering the United States.
Full Story (http://gopusa.com/news/2003/january/0116_ins.shtml)
Published 1/15/2003
UPI
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The Bush administration has ordered tough new immigration exit rules and added five more Muslim countries to an alien registration list, as part of major effort to keep track of foreign visitors considered a security risk, United Press International was told Wednesday.
According to officials at the Department of Justice and one at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, male citizens from Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Bangladesh and Indonesia will have to register when they enter the country and those already here must contact the Immigration and Naturalization Service by March 28. This brings to 25 the number of countries, mostly Muslim and many in the Middle East, whose male citizens face special registration if they come to the United States.
Others already listed include: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates. Once registered, visitors from these countries will have to check out through special exit offices when they leave the country or face being barred from reentering the United States.
Full Story (http://gopusa.com/news/2003/january/0116_ins.shtml)