She no longer qualified for a visitor visa because she intended to stay.

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Al-Mohdar was admitted to the United States in December 1998 after obtaining a visitor's visa fro the U.S. consulate in Ottawa, Canada.

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Ms Sumani moved to the UK as a visitor in 2003 but ran into visa problems after attempting to find work.

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Among the plaintiffs is Manuel Ortega Melendres, a visitor to Arizona who possessed a valid visa.

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"We don't have Visa's directory business, " he says to a visitor, squinting at the chart.

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Sabine Haddad, the spokesperson of the Israeli Population Registry, says that according to the law every visitor to the West Bank has always needed a special permit from the Israeli army in addition to the visa.

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