{"id":667456,"date":"2019-08-29T02:21:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T23:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/?p=667456"},"modified":"2019-08-29T02:21:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T23:21:20","slug":"harvard-freshmans-visa-rejected-by-border-officers-at-u-s-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2019\/08\/29\/harvard-freshmans-visa-rejected-by-border-officers-at-u-s-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard freshman&#8217;s visa rejected by border officers at U.S. airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content__high-wrapper\">\n<header class=\"content__header content__header--no-promo \">\n<p class=\"content__meta content__meta-byline\">By Graham Kates<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta content__meta-timestamp\"><time datetime=\"2019-08-28T07:40:00-0400\">Updated on: August 28, 2019<br \/>\n<\/time><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<section data-page=\"1\" data-page-hidden=\"0\" data-use-autolinker=\"true\">A student&#8217;s plans to attend Harvard University were potentially cut short Friday when a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at Boston Logan International Airport turned him away.The decision to reject Ismail Ajjawi&#8217;s entrance into the U.S. was\u00a0first reported by the Harvard Crimson student newspaper, which received a statement from Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian resident of Lebanon. The teen said a U.S. official asked him about his religious practices and searched his laptop and cellphone for five hours before questioning him about his friends&#8217; social media activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the 5 hours ended, she called me into a room, and she started screaming at me. She said that she found people posting political points of view that oppose the US on my friend[s] list,&#8221; Ajjawi wrote, according to the Crimson.<\/p>\n<p>Ajjawi told the paper he has &#8220;no single post on my timeline discussing politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I responded that I have no business with such posts and that I didn&#8217;t like, [s]hare or comment on them and told her that I shouldn&#8217;t be held responsible for what others post,&#8221; Ajjawi wrote, according to the Crimson.<\/p>\n<p>Eight hours after Ajjawi arrived at the airport, just a few miles from the campus where he expected to attend college, he was sent back to Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to CBS News, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed that Ajjawi was &#8220;deemed inadmissible&#8221; by an officer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Applicants must demonstrate they are admissible into the U.S. by overcoming all grounds of inadmissibility including health-related grounds, criminality, security reasons, public charge, labor certification, illegal entrants and immigration violations, documentation requirements, and miscellaneous grounds,&#8221; the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Harvard said the university still hopes Ajjawi will be attend classes this fall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The University is working closely with the student&#8217;s family and appropriate authorities to resolve this matter so that he can join his classmates in the coming days,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson also noted that Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on July 16 to express his &#8220;deep concern over growing uncertainty and anxiety around issues involving international students and scholars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Graham Kates Updated on: August 28, 2019 A student&#8217;s plans to attend Harvard University were potentially cut short Friday when a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at Boston Logan International Airport turned him away.The decision to reject Ismail Ajjawi&#8217;s entrance into the U.S. was\u00a0first reported by the Harvard Crimson student newspaper, which received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4092,"featured_media":773264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[3486,1564],"class_list":["post-667456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-harvard","tag-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4092"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}