1.   Loi had announced that he much preferred sleeping on the raft even after he received his visa.

2.   Also, it said, he had remained in Myanmar for two months after receiving a visa, giving an impression that he was not at risk.

3.   An express line will be set up for certain applicants, including those who have received a visa in the past.

4.   A State Department official said a criminal record does not necessarily disqualify an applicant from receiving a visa.

5.   Agency officials were further mortified when two of the hijackers received their student visas to attend flight schools six months after ramming jetliners into the trade center.

6.   Burns said accredited officials with the national Olympic committees of the participating countries also would receive visas.

7.   But bureaucratic red tape related to the instability of Nigeria has prevented Rose Okaroh from receiving a visa from the US embassy in Lagos.

8.   But the United States has recently barred both men from receiving visas, American officials said, because of their activities under the Noriega dictatorship.

9.   Federal officials last week said that some of the hijackers may have received visas using stolen identities.

10.   Foreign election observers, who will be traveling to Mexico to monitor the voting, are facing delays in receiving visas.