“Here we have someone born and bred in a country with its own, difficult World War II history trying to spend a year working at a museum dedicated to Holocaust commemoration, reconciliation and education,” said Mark A. Rothman, the Museum’s Executive Director. “This inexplicable denial frustrates the intention of this young man to strengthen relations between his country and ours.”
Added Rothman: “The primary reason for the Mr. Hofer’s denial was USCIS’s determination the visa would not, in fact, foster cultural exchange. If work with our museum doesn’t constitute a cultural exchange under American law, I don’t know what would.”