The importance of ΑΩΑ membership to residency applications varies among specialties and programs.

Community supports for students and families were also made available for study visas, residency applications, and cultural integration.

Where Geordany Josselin, 21, a Haitian, waited for more than six hours to find out what had happened to his residency application.

Estimates suggest residency applications in Nepal are still running at 200 a month.

It was supremely important to the Cruzes that the girls be baptized in Chinantla, so, while their residency application was pending, they flew home.

The most common anti-Aum tactic has been for municipal governments to refuse to accept members' residency applications, which are a legal requirement to live in any Japanese city and qualify for social services.

Advance parole must be approved before the applicant leaves the United States, or any residency application will in general be denied.

A lawyer he had paid $10,000 botched a 1996 residency application, he said.

Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño stated on 30 November that the residency application would "have to be studied from the legal and diplomatic perspective".

It has a fraud unit which investigates the sale of fake degrees, sham marriages and bogus job offers to aid residency applications to New Zealand.