21.   He said they may have to travel to Mongolia or some other country every three months to renew their visas.

22.   In October, Vietnam refused to renew the visa of a Hanoi-based foreign correspondent working for the Far Eastern Economic Review.

23.   In retaliation, the Saudis barred new Thai guest workers and refused to renew the visas of the thousands already in the desert kingdom.

24.   It was not clear why she had failed to renew her visa.

25.   It also threatened not to renew the visa of a Western television correspondent, Canadian Ed Fitzgerald, but backed down after calling him in for a discussion.

26.   It was not immediately clear why she had failed to renew her visa.

27.   Most foreigners in Russia, including religious workers, have been able to get their Russian visas renewed for a year without leaving the country.

28.   She is seeking damages for breach of the loan contract after the company refused to hand over her passport when she needed it to renew her visa.

29.   The interior ministry has also stopped renewing tourist visas in a bid to better control the rising tide of foreign visitors, many of them overseas Vietnamese.

30.   They were detained for having invalidated visas renewed by the Brazilian Embassy in Vichy.