T&TE - Embassy official: 7 out of 10 get US visas...seeks to clear up misconceptions by Muslims

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Trinidad & Tobago Express

Embassy official: 7 out of 10 get US visas...seeks to clear up misconceptions by Muslims


Joel Julien jjulien@trinidadexpress.com


Thursday, June 25th 2009

new beginnings: Zakeya Hosein, president of the National Muslim Women Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago presents Len Kusnitz, Charge d'Affairs at the United States Embassy, with a copy of the Holy Quran, following a meeting at the Bamboo Mosque in Valsayn yesterday. -Photo: STEPHEN DOOBAY

OUT of ten people that go to the United States Embassy with a visa application in hand, seven of them walk out with a visa on their passport, says Len Kusnitz, the US Embassy's Charge d'Affairs.

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Snippet(s):

""There are a lot of misconceptions about the embassy; it is being reported that 65 per cent of the people are being denied visas, but that is not the case, in fact, it is the complete opposite; seven out of ten people get visas, that is 70 per cent," Kusnitz said.

However, Kusnitz's figures did little to appease several attendees who recounted personal accounts of visa denial and embarrassment while trying to enter the US."