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Stuck in Samoa: The US refuses to take back this ‘stateless’ man

After a bureaucratic glitch, Mikhail Sebastian's Samoan vacation morphed into a real-life Tom Hanks’ ‘The Terminal.’ Will he ever return to the US?

Paradise forever? One would think Samoa is not the worst place to get stuck in for a while. But for Mikhail Sebastian, a stateless man, it's "like hell."

Hannah Johnston

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