1.   U.S. immigration authorities have turned down their visa application.

2.   You should allow two weeks for your visa application to be processed.

3.   It can take a long time for your visa application to be processed.

4.   Already, lawyers said, some immigrants have been forced to leave their jobs and their relatives in this country while pursuing their visa applications.

5.   American officials overseas have extensive authority to reject visa applications, particularly if security concerns are raised.

6.   A couple of rejected visa applications later, she did.

7.   A State Department official said the names on all visa applications are run through a database drawn from a variety of sources inside and outside the U.S. government.

8.   A spokeswoman for the Australian Embassy in Washington said laws prohibited it from commenting on individual visa applications.

9.   Ace Travel was among those selected by the embassy back in May to help speed what was then an overwhelming tide of visa applications.

10.   Al Draibi is charged with falsely representing himself as a U.S. citizen when he was detained and with lying on a visa application.