The World on Fire: A Failure to Establish Ties

A close reading of the US Embassy, in Islamabad, Pakistan, document, which was handed to a young woman, a high school student from Afghanistan with two US acceptances and scholarships to elite private schools, reveals the following language, after the menacing, “A Failure to Establish Ties”:

One main requirement to qualify for nonimmigrant visas is that you must demonstrate to the…