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Visa Progress for Bolivian Historian
By Gwendolyn Bradley
Bolivian historian Waskar Ari is one step closer to being able to take up an appointment at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in May approved an employment-visa petition filed by the university. The ruling, which came almost two years after the university filed its petition and a few months after it filed a lawsuit against the department over its refusal to respond to the petition, means that Ari can now apply for a visa to enter the United States. The government revoked his previous visa in June 2005 while Ari, who had lived and worked in the United States, was in Bolivia visiting his family. The AAUP had protested the revocation as part of a troubling pattern in which foreign scholars offered appointments at American universities or invited to attend academic conferences are prevented from entering the United States because of their perceived political beliefs or associations.
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