WASHINGTON—Deficiencies in screening applicants for U.S. visas have left openings for potential terrorists to legally enter the country, the State Department’s inspector general said last week. In the wake of the 1993 World trade center bombing, the inspector general reviewed procedures for processing nonimmigrant visas worldwide to determine if they adequately block terrorists from obtaining legal visas. USS foreign posts in particular have not pooled intelligence information on suspected terrorists with the consular “lookout” list that is used to red flag applicants and keep undesirables from entering the United States, the inspector general said.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 7, 1995
