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Nature 443, 6-7 (7 September 2006) | doi:10.1038/443006a; Published online 6 September 2006

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Lengthy visas delays and persistent security checks have turned foreign scientists away from the United States. Now the country is striving to woo them back. Geoff Brumfiel and Heidi Ledford report.

When Nature first contacted Olexei Motrunich two-and-a-half years ago, he was beside himself. The 30-year-old Ukrainian physicist had studied and worked in the United States since 1994, and had just taken a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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