Posted on 05/28/2025 12:29:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The judge said a customs officer had acted improperly in stripping Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, of her visa after she failed to declare research samples she was carrying into the country.
A federal judge on Wednesday said she would grant bail to Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, in an immigration case stemming from Ms. Petrova’s failure to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country.
“There does not seem to be either a factual or legal basis for the immigration officer’s actions” in stripping Ms. Petrova of her visa on Feb. 16, Christina Reiss, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Vermont, said in a court hearing.
She added that “Ms. Petrova’s life and well-being are in peril if she is deported to Russia,” as the government has said it intends to do.
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Din't do nuffin.'
“She added that “Ms. Petrova’s life and well-being are in peril if she is deported to Russia...”
When she was entering the country with these samples, from which country had she just come?)
[When she was entering the country with these samples, from which country had she just come?)]
Real scientists know that there are folders full of requirements to bringing biological samples into the country.
If she’s so good, she won’t have any trouble getting a similar posi in Europe.
She actually might get a chance to stay if she flips on the Harvard professor who arranged all this.
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Aaaaaaaaaaaa just try to bring fresh fruit into California from Oregon.
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