It’s a horrifying story that should petrify any international traveler: A perfectly harmless person headed to speak at a conference is detained for hours because he has the wrong kind of visa.
Officials were curious about a foreign government’s paying for the speech, and you can just imagine how you’d feel: It’s Kafka without the charming yet somehow ominous architecture! You traveled across the ocean to give a nice talk to some smart people, and now you’re treated like you left the plane wearing a bin Laden mask and with bricks of modeling clay strapped to your chest, ululating fealty to the jihad.
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