{"id":4745,"date":"2017-07-06T13:13:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/?p=4745\/"},"modified":"2017-07-06T13:19:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:19:01","slug":"afghan-all-girl-robotics-team-denied-us-visas-while-robot-granted-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/afghan-all-girl-robotics-team-denied-us-visas-while-robot-granted-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan all-girl robotics team denied US visas while robot granted entry"},"content":{"rendered":"

A <\/span><\/span><\/span>team of\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Afghan<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0girls who created a robot to compete in an event in the United States will have to watch it perform on the internet after they were refused visas.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The six-strong team of girls’ from the town Herat had their robot selected to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge competition in Washington. Joe Sestak, a US congressman who is president of the competition, said: “<\/span><\/span><\/span>I’m deeply saddened about the Afghan team not getting visas.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>“<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Arrangements are being made for the girls to watch on Skype as their robot competes against other teams from around the world.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Afghanistan is not on the list of six predominantly Muslim countries named in President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban order. However teams from Iran and Sudan, which are named in the order, were given visas. So was a “Team of Hope” made up of Syrian refugees.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The US State Department approved 112 business visas for Afghan visitors in May, much less than for Syria or Iran, according to latest figures.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A team of\u00a0Afghan\u00a0girls who created a robot to compete in an event in the United States will have to watch it perform on the internet after they were refused visas. The six-strong team of girls’ from the town Herat had their robot selected to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge competition in Washington. Joe Sestak, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4754,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions\/4754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}