The countries, largely from Western Europe, were selected for the program based on their low rate of visa denials.

We will explain the reason for any visa denial to you.

Additionally, the sport group's president had three previous visa denials, with one on national security grounds.

Since 1988, Congress has imposed a temporary ban on visa denials because of political beliefs.

An applicant can influence the post to change a prior visa denial only through the presentation of new convincing evidence of strong ties.

Qasim said he believed that "the most probable reason for the visa denial was the sensitive subject of my film".

Or the State Department might be required to submit periodic reports on all visa denials based on national security grounds.

Israel cites security as the reason for the visa denials.

But the visa denial was just a temporary setback.

Federal courts later found the visa denial to be improper.