State Department officials denied today there was any political significance to a slowing of the rate of granting visas to Israeli nationals to enter the United States.
A report from Jerusalem said that in the last few days the Embassy has been telling Israelis that visas which they had been promised could not be processed because the United States ban on travel of American nationals to the Middle East had left the Embassy shorthanded. The report pointed out that although the travel had been in effect since last October, the hold-up of visas had developed most recently.
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