March 5, 2008

Iraqi Officials Say U.S. Visa Policies Set Back Their Higher-Education Efforts

By Aisha Labi

Iraqi students seeking to study at American colleges and universities on full scholarships from the Iraqi government face so many hurdles in obtaining a visa that few are able to enter the country, according to a delegation of Iraqi university deans and education-ministry officials traveling in the United States this week.

The problems, the Iraqi officials said, pose a major obstacle to their government's efforts to improve a higher-education system that has been hobbled by a

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