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01-15-2016, 12:36 AM #1
Sen. Grassley Warns Obama Administration Further Diluting Visa Applicant Requirements
Sen. Grassley Warns Obama Administration Further
Diluting Visa Applicant Requirements
by Caroline May : 14 Jan 2016
The Obama administration has continued an effort — started by former Secretary of State and Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — to further dilute the vetting requirements for visa applicants seeking
admission to the U.S., according to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
The State Department has adopted a regulation to waive interview requirements for certain visa applicants in what Grassley warns is
“the Department’s intent to water down once again rules pertaining to interviews of visa applicants.”
In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, dated Tuesday, Grassley requests details on what categories of visa applicants will be eligible
to have the interview process waived, any plans for further expansion of the policy, and details about the applicants who have already had
interviews waived.
As Grassley recalls in his missive, just two of the fifteen hijackers from Saudi Arabia who perpetrated the September 11, 2001 attacks had
been interviewed. Following the attacks, Congress passed a law requiring all visa applicants between the ages of 14 and 79 to appear in
person for an interview by a consular officer.
A little more than a decade following the 9/11 attacks, Grassley highlighted to Kerry, then-Secretary Clinton took the early steps to
“substantially water down the visa interview requirement” by expanding her authority as secretary of state to grant a waiver exemption
if it is in the “national interest.” Grassley wrote in his letter:
Secretary Clinton exploited that exemption to designate entire categories of visa applicants to be exempt from the visa interview
requirement. The primary ‘national interest’ upon which such class-wide exemptions were based appeared to be nothing more than
reduction of visa application wait times and facilitation of travel by foreign visitors. One well-known immigration lawyer’s website
cheered the program as a welcome reversion to the “pre-September 11th era.
Grassley added that the Obama administration “appears intent to circumvent the law and ignore the safeguards that Congress has put in
place to prevent terrorists from arriving at our shores.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/14/sen-grassley-warns-obama-administration-further-diluting-visa-applicant-requirements/
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