EAST LANSING, Mich. - U.S. authorities declined to admit an Iranian graduate student after he landed at an airport to start classes at Michigan State University, an attorney said. Alireza Esfidajani, 27, was stopped Sunday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport and interviewed by agents. He was held at a jail in Monroe County and returned to Iran on Monday. “They deemed him being inadmissible but they never said under what grounds,“ attorney Ghazal Nicole Mehrani told The Detroit News. “The issuance of a visa or participation in the visa waiver program does not guarantee entry to the United States.”Esfidajani was supposed to start classes soon, MSU spokeswoman Emily Gerkin Guerrant said.

Source: thestar January 28, 2020 16:07 UTC