August 17, 2007
Middle Eastern Students Shut Out of the U.S. Turn to Australia and New Zealand
Abdul Alshahrani, a young Saudi Arabian student, had hoped to be in the United States by now, studying engineering at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Ind. But he was unable to secure a visa, so he will instead spend the next three years here at Auckland University of Technology.
"It was all very heavy," he says, recalling the fruitless six months he spent waiting to hear from U.S. consular officials in his home country. On one occasion, he says, "when I managed to make a
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