15-year-old student Pouya Ghadirian was all set to go to space camp in the U.S. with his high school when he found out he wouldn’t be getting a visa.
Reportedly the first Australian to be denied a visa to travel within the United States, Ghadirian was born in Australia, and has Australian and Iranian dual citizenship “by descent.”
The Melbourne-based Year 11 student told 9 News he was “gutted” about not being able to visit Washington and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Alabama.
Arriving at the US Consulate in Melbourne on Monday, Ghadirian said things got very bleak. “They were a bit shocked and they didn’t know how to handle it. They said they had terrible news,” he told AAP according to SBS. “They said it was the first time it had happened in an Australian embassy.” Read more…
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