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Download Sudhansu Misra 3
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Narrator: Sudhansu Misra (SM)
Interviewer: Polly Sonifer (PS)
SM: Right after I joined Honeywell, they applied for my immigration visa. In those days, they took only 100 immigrants from India throughout the year, so I was one of the hundred. That was until Kennedy became the president, 1964. So, they didn't have any other routes, so you had to be within that hundred. So, I was in the preference because I was working for the military at UNIX and for the Honeywell Company. And then, they went and investigated my very roots, right from the school days, went to my high school teacher.
PS: In India?
SM: Yes, everything was investigated because I was not only considered for immigrant, I was also going for a secret clearance. Immigration visa wasn't too hard, but the secret clearance, that was very involved.
PS: Did they talk to your teachers in India and your family?
SM: Yes, yes. Family, teachers, friends, whoever I gave as a reference. They made an inquiry, yes.
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