{"id":170173,"date":"2012-03-21T18:47:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=170173"},"modified":"2012-03-21T18:59:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:59:39","slug":"us-entry-visa-applicants-must-demonstrate-strong-ties-to-homeland-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/21\/us-entry-visa-applicants-must-demonstrate-strong-ties-to-homeland-embassy.html","title":{"rendered":"US Entry Visa Applicants Must Demonstrate Strong Ties to Homeland: Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each US entry visa applicant must demonstrate strong social, economic and professional ties, among other ties, to their home country in order to qualify for a visa, the US Embassy in Armenia&#8217;s press office informed Epress.am, responding to a request for comments on a <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/20\/do-not-provide-armenian-judges-with-us-entry-visa-says-human-rights-group.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">letter<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> sent by Yerevan-based Helsinki Association for Human Rights to US Ambassador John Heffern, in which the human rights group suggests that several Armenian judges should not be granted entry visas to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Helsinki Association president Mikael Danielyan and attorney Gayane Khachatryan informed Epress.am that these judges and prosecutors have permitted numerous gross procedural violations in several criminal cases in recent years, the victims of which to whom the Association was providing legal assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy in Yerevan did not wish to provide further comments and pointed out that the US Embassy does not comment on individual visa cases.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each US entry visa applicant must demonstrate strong social, economic and professional ties, among other ties, to their home country in order to&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[39627,39674,13969,27174,26659,11348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}