--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm, I seem to recall that "Vedic pundits from India" was whom it was > intended for--they even went so far as to put in those special toilets > that Indians are used to. > > Maybe the whole visa problem really did take them by surprise--who > knows. > > Sal >
MUM has had their regular Indian students turned down for visas before, but after a lot of jawing with consular officials at US embassies in India, their acceptance rate went way up: http://www.mum.edu/TheReview/02-03/1-22-03.html#3 However, the pundits do not speak English, and they also are uneducated (the two go together, since English is the language of instruction there http://www.panjab.org.uk/english/engenctr.htm ), in addition to being very poor -- these are factors which would not encourage consular officials to overlook the pundits' poverty (the thinking being that really poor people won't leave the USA after their visas expire). So it was unrealistic to think that there would be no problem with pundit visas -- they could have avoided the problem by trying to get 25-50 visas before they started to build, and then see if the project was feasible. Maybe, out of the 200,000 pundits in training in India, they have been able to mine 200 middle- class pundits, but it's looking doubtful the more time passes. Bob Brigante http://geocities.com/bbrigante/updates.html#lie > > On Jun 9, 2005, at 5:13 PM, bbrigante wrote: > > > All the money donated to date is highly visible as a trailer park in > > Vedic City, so the money was spent for its intended purpose, To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
