By Glenn R. Morales, Attorney at Law, Private International Law U.S. Consular Officers face the laborious task of evaluating requests for the renewal of American visas from certain foreign citizens who, in the past, may have committed crimes or offences for which they have never faced trial in a law court of the United States or, in other cases, people who were served deportation orders by the U.S. Immigration Courts and had their visas cancelled by a U.S. Immigration Official at an entry port, either at an airport, a sea-port or a land border during their preliminary or secondary migration inspection. Data on such foreign citizens, who have been excluded from entry to the United States, and whose American visas have been automatically revoked, is entered into the consular record system and is duly registered and notified to all the American Consulates around the world. Many of these foreign people whose American visas have been revoked at airports, sea-ports or land borders, an