21.   During the shutdown Medicare, Social Security and welfare beneficiaries would continue to receive checks, but no new applications would be processed.

22.   Evacuations of embassy and consular employees have left no one to process visa applications from Indian businessmen or to answer questions about customs, trade and other regulations.

23.   Electronic filing is expected to streamline procedures, decrease the time it takes to process applications and reduce costs.

24.   FBI counterterrorism agents are hampered because workers who process applications for court-sanctioned wiretaps and surveillance have been furloughed.

25.   Foreign visitors coming into the United States also will be stuck because no visa applications are being processed.

26.   He said workers would immediately begin processing applications for home loans and sending out checks to homeless agencies.

27.   Immigration officials in Washington acknowledged Monday that there had been problems in processing some applications.

28.   In San Francisco and other cities and towns in the state, however, Pac Bell must process applications for changeovers to MCI.

29.   It explained how to apply by mail and promised that their applications would be processed promptly.

30.   It often took three times longer to process an application from a black farmer than from a white farmer.