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Cuba denies 553 visa holders
exit permits
UPI,
March 15, 2006.
HAVANA, March 14 (UPI) -- The Cuban government
is preventing more than 500 Cubans with
visas from leaving the country, the Miami
Herald reported Tuesday.
Among the 553 Cubans seeking to come to
the United States are senior government
or military officials, who the Castro government
reportedly views as defectors, said officials
at the U.S. mission in Havana.
Cuban authorities require citizens with
visas to also get an exit visa before leaving
the country.
"Although the government allows the
departure of people classified as immigrants
or who have refugee status in other countries,
thousands of citizens who received documents
to travel abroad were denied authorization
to leave last year," says a report
issued last week by the U.S. State Department.
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