1.   Often, temporary workers use the visas as a step toward gaining permanent resident status.

2.   Tancredo and some labor advocates say employers are merely using the visas to import cheaper workers.

3.   Suspects in the attacks are believed to have entered the United States using immigration visas.

4.   The high-tech industry uses these visas to fill job openings with skilled workers from overseas.

5.   The visas are used mostly to bring computer programmers here from overseas, particularly from India, England, Japan, the Philippines and Germany.

6.   The visas have been used in recent years to recruit computer programmers, many of them from India, Taiwan and Europe.

7.   Police chief Norian Mai has said that records show several suspects sought by the United States had traveled to Malaysia using tourist visas.

8.   Both, who entered the country using student visas, were picked up for their alleged involvement in a syndicate responsible for cheating businessmen.

9.   But Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock warned that many students were already using student visas for other reasons.

10.   But the government recently began requiring special, relatively restrictive visas for human rights observers, who in the past had often used tourist visas without problems.