A Tibet women's soccer team has been denied U.S. visas to participate in a tournament in Dallas.
Cassie Childers, a coach and executive director for Tibet Women's Soccer, said 16 team members were told at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, that they "have no good reason to visit the U.S." They sought travel visas for the Dallas Cup scheduled April 9-16.
Childers, who's from New Jersey, said in an email from India that embassy officials didn't glance at the documents or provide explanations.
All but two of the 16 who visited the embassy last month hold Indian Identity Certificates issued by the Indian government for Tibetan refugees. They function as passports but don't represent citizenship to India.
A State Department official declined to discuss individual visa cases.
