US visa rules forced SYL envoy Issa into Canadian dependence on Somali expatriates

Evidence

With a crowded schedule, the General Assembly tabled the Somali issue until the summer of 1949, and the SYL delegate needed to extend his visa to remain in the United States. The American authorities demanded that he deposit $500 in his account in New York. Issa pleaded with British authorities to allow him to transfer money from Mogadishu, but the British refused to grant his wish, and Issa could not remain in New York. He went to Canada, where Somalis in the United States, such as Jama Dirie, known as Abu Raas, who owned a small grocery store in Harlem, and Ismail Ahmed I-jeeh and his African American wife Kathy, who lived in Brooklyn, maintained him. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 267