Priego: Not Denied Entry Into USA

According to a statement made by someone claiming to be comics scholar Ernesto Priego on the blog of The International Comic Arts Forum 2007 Chair Marc Singer, he was not denied an entry into the United States to present at ICAF, as was asserted on his behalf. Priego:

"I appreciate the post, but I would like to say that I wasn't 'denied entry'; my visa was not renewed, most probably because I did not apply for it in person and did not submit enough documents proving what I'd be doing in the States. So they didn't know I was going to a conference. I had just applied for a normal renewal.

I don't want to make any further public comments on this matter, but I wanted to publicly clarify the distinction between being denied entry as a scholar and not having gotten the paper renewed. Information travels very fast on the Internet, and sometimes it gets distorted as it flies over the seas of bits and pixels.

I am, of course, profoundly sorry I won't be able to attend ICAF..."

I regret running the story when I did, although this exactly why one tries to source things in the body of an article in terms of claims and statements, so I don't feel too badly there. I find a lot of things confusing here, actually, including the chasm between the ICAF's take and Priego's, the seeming disconnect between the two just in terms of being in contact, that Priego waited two days to reply to anyone's questions and that now he doesn't want to make comments on a story he says doesn't exist. Although for all I know there's layers and layers of story here yet to be uncovered. Or perhaps this all wrapped up in people having galaxy-wide differences of opinion on the implications of being denied a visa for unknown reasons. I don't know.
 
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