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From: fbaube@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Fred Baube)
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Subject: Re: East meets West, la Choi makes Chinese food, swing - American!
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 11:48:29 EST
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In <4692@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Greg Earle writes:

>reply I got, `The amount of trouble we have leaving Yugoslavia is miniscule
>compared to the amou>nt of trouble we have entering your country.' [They were
>refusedniked Visas last year thanks to our wonderful INS and its `No
>Cultural Value' ruleset mind].  Touche' ...

As I understand it, INS has disingenuously declared that visa
applicants that are, say, music performers, must have proof that
they have some sort of "established audience" to gain entry, this
constituting proof that they aren't just trying to get here and
stay here to live.  This audience must be evidenced by album
sales in the US (how else could one do it ?), which (Catch 22)
generally occur *after* a successful tour by a new-and-struggling
group. The thought occurs, what music groups now known by
American audiences (of whatever musical persuasion) would
previously have been barred by this rule ?  And, does this doom
us to European versions of Barry Manilow and Wayne Newton ? :-<