>Mine usually involve my visa application being denied.
A friend of mine - a naturalized US citizen - is married to a woman from Uzbekistan. If she returns to Uzbekistan, she's likely to be boiled alive, or shot, or something like that, because she's a journalist who's written critically about the regime. But the INS is telling her she's got to go back there for two years before she can re-apply to come here. Appeals are underway, but it's really messy.
Doug