The Chronicle: ‘Terrorist Activities’ Cited in Denial of U.S. Visa for South African Scholar
A prominent South African scholar who was refused entry into the United States last year has received a letter from the U.S. government saying his visa was revoked because of his involvement in unspecified “terrorist activities.” The scholar, Adam Habib, a deputy vice chancellor of the University of Johannesburg, has strongly denied the charge.
In the letter to Mr. Habib, which was dated October 26 and provided to The Chronicle by the American Civil Liberties Union, the State Department cited a section of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act that allows the exclusion of “any alien who has engaged in a terrorist activity,” who is likely to engage in such activities, or who belongs to a group that has endorsed such activities.
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