America extends period of registering foreign visitors
Regional-USA, Local, 1/18/2003

The US administration announced on Thursday the extension for the period of registering foreign visitors from 18 countries, and this is to permit those who did not complete necessary documents to carry out that without fears of imposing sanctions on them.

The decision to give an additional period from January 27 to February 7 for male foreigners who are above 16 year old, at a time when the US immigration department decided to expand the program to register foreigners to include males from Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Indonesia and Bangladesh.

Benefiting from the declared grace period are male citizens from five ME states which are Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya and Syria who could complete their documents before January 16, whereas citizens from Lebanon, Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, the UAE and Yemen who missed the date of 10 January a date set for them will benefit from this grace period.

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