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Extra Baggage: The Difficulties Graduate Students and Postdocs Face Navigating Columbia on a Visa
April 24th, 2019
In the summer of 2017, Hooshmand Shokri Razaghi, then an Iranian third-year Ph.D. student in Columbia’s computer science department, decided to complete an express entry application to receive permanent Canadian residency. Part of his application, called “landing,” required him to fly to Canada and interview with the Canada Border Services Agency. Since Shokri Razaghi was only given one year to complete this interview, he would have to travel to Canada before finishing his Ph.D. program...