emigration visa

Thus he was not altogether surprised at what happened when, eight years ago, he put in for an emigration visa.

An often-cited but rarely explained official ground for the refusal to issue an emigration visa were "national security reasons."

Students enrolled when their families came to Berlin to escape the terror in the hinterlands and wait for emigration visas.

Through him and his wife she met the American consul who offered her an emigration visa to New York.

The term means being refused a Soviet emigration visa to Israel, which happened in 1973; he was formerly a mathematician.

He said any Soviet action delaying emigration visas for Jews would complicate the fate of the trade treaty.

Yevgeny Antsupov, a former cellmate at Chistopol prison, had been given an emigration visa.

By September 1973 Kandel family had decided to emigrate to Israel, and applied for an emigration visa.

Meanwhile, those waiting for the chance to go soon passed the age of seventeen, the upper limit for Youth Allyah emigration visas.

Rodney, too, is unable to go, after his emigration visa is rejected due to his criminal conviction for possession of cannabis.

More than 1 million Soviet Jews already hold emigration visas, the Jewish Agency, the quasi-governmental office with central responsibility for immigration, reported early this month.

The Soviet Government has traditionally granted emigration visas only to Jews, ethnic Germans and members of a very few other ethnic minorities.

When the new politics of the communist administration became clear, the Bayer family applied for emigration visas, which were at last granted after more than four years of fighting the bureaucracy.

During the six day war, the emigration wave from the USSR almost stopped completely, and in addition to that the authorities did not accept any requests for emigration visas.

These include Mr. Gorbachev's suggestion that he might consider delaying Soviet Jews' emigration visas unless Israel guarantees that they will not settle in the occupied territories.

Among the Displaced Persons, about 20 percent were Jews who languished in displaced persons camps in Germany, Austria or Italy, waiting for emigration visas.

Under his rule, any Banat Swabian who chose to emigrate had to pay a bounty of more than a thousand marks (depending on age and education) for a permanent emigration visa.

After winning a couple of international competitions as a teen-ager, the Soviet pianist began what promised to be a major career, only to have it cut short in 1979 when he applied for an emigration visa.

That was because Mr. Feltsman, one of the Soviet Union's most promising young performers, had applied for an emigration visa three years earlier, and in the interim his application had repeatedly been denied.

While the Government has reaffirmed its decision to deny emigration visas to several longtime would-be emigres, and most have heard nothing at all, several families have left or been told that they are free to go.

The "Technical Conservation Act" of 1778, which revoked emigration visas for all research and production engineers by nationalizing their expertise "as a resource of the Republic," was intended to put a stop to that, but it could not reverse the fatal trends.

In 1932, she began serving the Trieste-Bombay-Shanghai route, and thus became one of the major escape routes for the Jewish population of Germany and Austria as Shanghai was one of the few places that did not require paid emigration visas.

A Miracle These are changes of great moment for Michael Arbitman, one of more than 700 Soviet Jews who have been granted emigration visas since Jan. 1 in what seems to be a relaxation of policy by the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev.

Because Mr. Viardo did not ask to emigrate, his position was not as difficult as that of performers like Vladimir Feltsman, the pianist whose career within the Soviet Union withered during the eight years between his request for an emigration visa and the Soviet Government's decision to let him leave.