In 2004, Elena Lappin became known as one of the journalists deported from the United States due to a lesser known requirement for journalists to apply for a peculiar kind of visa. Elena Lappin's experience of the deportation from the US has been printed in prestigious news papers, such as Los Angeles Times and The Guardian.
Bibliography
Jewish Voices, German Words: Growing Up Jewish in Postwar Germany and Austria (1994)
Foreign Brides, twelve humorous short stories (1999) about women coping in foreign countries with foreign husbands.
The Nose, novel (2001)
External links
Welcome to America (http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1231089,00.html) in The Guardian (Elena Lappin's account of the deportation)
ElenaLappin is a British author and journalist, born in Moscow in 1954, who grew up in Prague and Hamburg, and has lived in Israel, Canada and the United States.
In 2004, ElenaLappin became known as one of the journalists deported from the United States due to a lesser known requirement for journalists to apply for a peculiar kind of visa.
ElenaLappin's experience of her brief imprisonment and deportation from the US has been printed in prestigious news papers, such as Los Angeles Times and The Guardian.
Lappin, 49, a naturalized British citizen originally from Russia, said she came to Los Angeles as a freelance writer for The Guardian, a British daily newspaper.
Lappin said she didn't know journalists needed a special visa to work in the United States and had previously traveled in the country without one.
Lappin said she was taken to a processing center in downtown Los Angeles and placed in a small cell until being deported to London the next day.
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