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The visa program leaving hopeful immigrants empty-handed

Clip: 11/17/2016 | 9m 28s

Cash-for-visa program squanders Pakistani couple’s savings and hopes of life in the U.S.

After leaving their home in Pakistan and living in Dubai, Noreen and Shehryar Iqbal aspired to move to the U.S. through the EB-5 Visa program, which grants green cards and eventually U.S. citizenship for large, job-creating investments. Now their life savings are gone and there are no green cards in sight. What happened? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.

11/17/2016 | Rating NR

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