1.   She has been granted a special visa.

2.   Although the special visa classification expires in three years, Ashcroft said it could be a smoothed path to eventual citizenship.

3.   As millions of Americans lost their jobs in an economic slowdown, U.S. companies hired a record number of skilled foreigners under a special visa program.

4.   A surge in refugees from the former Soviet Union and a special visa lottery that heavily benefited Irish and Polish immigrants led to the increase.

5.   Immigration officials have agreed to sponsor the workers still here for a special visa granted to witnesses who contribute to the prosecution of criminal cases.

6.   In keeping with his moderate stance, he backed both increased border enforcement and the expanded use of special temporary visas for immigrant workers.

7.   It also provides special visas for some victims, so they could stay in the United States while their exploiters are prosecuted and perhaps even permanently.

8.   James P. Rubin, the State Department spokesman, Wednesday repeated that Washington would expedite a special visa to allow him to do so.

9.   She liked America so much that she said she had been promised a special visa that would allow her to stay longer, for perhaps a year.

10.   The Boston Globe reported that year that Mohamed had originally been admitted to the United States under a special visa program controlled by the CIA.