Report presumably sent out as a mailing. After Dennis Brutus applied for a renewal or extension of his H-1 Visa on January 25, 1981 that would enable him to teach African Literature at Northwestern University, where he is a full professor, the Immigration and Naturalization Section (INS) on February 6, 1981 denied his application because it was not filed in a timely manner and required him to leave the U.S. by March 5, 1981. Brutus requested a reversal of this ruling, saying that he was ordered by the British Government to relinquish his British passport for a Zimbabwe passport (prompted by Zimbabwe's independence). On June 7, a group of Brutus' colleagues and friends formed the Dennis Brutus...
Report presumably sent out as a mailing. After Dennis Brutus applied for a renewal or extension of his H-1 Visa on January 25, 1981 that would enable him to teach African Literature at Northwestern University, where he is a full professor, the Immigration and Naturalization Section (INS) on February 6, 1981 denied his application because it was not filed in a timely manner and required him to leave the U.S. by March 5, 1981. Brutus requested a reversal of this ruling, saying that he was ordered by the British Government to relinquish his British passport for a Zimbabwe passport (prompted by Zimbabwe's independence). On June 7, a group of Brutus' colleagues and friends formed the Dennis Brutus Defense Committee. The INS informed Brutus on June 25, 1981 that his appeal was denied. Acting on the advice of his attorney, Lewis Myers of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, Brutus sent a telegram to Robert Johnson (the Immigration Officer who only handles cases that have received Congressional inquiry) requesting an interview to discuss the June 25th order. The interview was granted, and Brutus and Myers were informed by the INS that his file had been lost. Attorney, H. Nasif Mahmoud, immigration specialist, was hired to represent Brutus. The document challenges why U.S. law would uphold the South African definition of "Communist," given its running an apartheid, racist regime that is ostracized worldwide. A friend of Brutus who lived in Zimbabwe, who also exposed apartheid's atrocities to the world, was murdered recently by South African Secret Police. People are asked to send letters supporting Brutus' application for permanent residency in the U.S. to the Acting Regional Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Section in Minneapolis, MN. The report mentions the Communist Party, Margaret Edinburg, Congressmen Harold Washington and George W. Crockett, Jr., and a distinguished scholar rating.
