{"id":355,"date":"2007-06-20T15:44:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T14:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/06\/20\/stupid_visa_rejections_exposed"},"modified":"2007-06-20T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T14:44:58","slug":"stupid_visa_rejections_exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/06\/20\/stupid_visa_rejections_exposed","title":{"rendered":"Stupid visa rejections exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"BBC NEWS | Politics | 'Ridiculous' visa rulings set out\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/6768405.stm\">BBC NEWS | Politics | &#8216;Ridiculous&#8217; visa rulings set out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The independent monitor of the UK visa service has published a report which outlines some of the stupid reasons why foreigners are refused visas to enter the UK.  Among the gobbledegook reasons (&#8220;I can only assess your mutual knowledge in a subjective context&#8221;), it seems, are tourists rejected for coming here for no other than tourism.  You couldn&#8217;t make it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC NEWS | Politics | &#8216;Ridiculous&#8217; visa rulings set out The independent monitor of the UK visa service has published a report which outlines some of the stupid reasons why foreigners are refused visas&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-5J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}