The Power

Monday, September 29, 2008

US eases visa rules for HIV-positive visitors



Washington - US immigration officials on Monday announced moves to ease and speed up visa-processing for HIV-positive visitors to the United States, months after a 21-year entry ban on people with the virus was lifted. Under the new rules, US consular offices overseas will have the authority to grant temporary, non-immigrant visas to HIV-positive applicants who meet "all of the other normal criteria for the granting of a US visa," the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement. Previously, people with HIV were banned from entering the United States unless they obtained a special waiver. Now that's what we need to get other country's rejects, so we need to take on more debt. Its not like we don't have enough already.

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