1.   The Interior Ministry has been tipped off about companies issuing fake visas.

2.   The visas are issued according to a system of five preferences, with the most highly skilled falling into the top preferences.

3.   Transit visas will be issued at the airport.

4.   Under the agreement, two nominally private organizations were established to issue visas and represent the interests of the two governments.

5.   And the State Department is arbitrary and inconsistent in deciding whether to issue travel visas to Cuban scientists seeking to come to the United States, the report states.

6.   Authority over issuing visas to enter the country would be moved from the State Department to the new department.

7.   Both issue visas.

8.   A readily available alternative was to go in through the Yugoslav province of Montenegro, which would issue visas at the airport.

9.   A visa is issued only after a background check is conducted.