US sees 2006 as watershed year

From: Dan Tsang <dtsang@lib.uci.edu>

From: Dan Tsang <dtsang@lib.uci.edu>

Date: Mar 30, 2006 12:49 AM

Subject: [Vsg] US sees 2006 as watershed year

Here's text of a state dept. official speaking on Vietnam; amazingly,

"Issuance of U.S. student and training visas reached a new high of 3,448

in 2005, which is an increase of 124% since 2001. Business and tourist

visas rose sharply last year to 21,765, an increase of 55% since 2001."

I didn't think tourist visas were easy to get.

URL:

http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=March&x=20060329181442tjkcollub0.4637262&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html

From: Ron Krate <rkrate@internationalprofs.org>

Date: Mar 30, 2006 7:00 AM

Subject: RE: [Vsg] US sees 2006 as watershed year

Hi Dan,

If it can be parsed, you can learn the % of the tourist visas, as we all

know........ and it would be useful for some of us to learn the % of

visas for each of the business categories?

Thanks,

Ron

International Professors Project