LOS ANGELES — After declining to issue a travel visa to Dennis Kasumba, the Ugandan orphan profiled in The Los Angeles Times, the American Embassy in Kampala backtracked Thursday and approved Kasumba's request to travel to the U.S. this month to play in the MLB Draft League.
"I'm very happy," Kasumba said after leaving the embassy. "I'm very excited."
Kasumba, 18, had been denied a U.S. visa three times because he had been unable to prove he had close family ties that would compel him to return to Uganda. That proved tough since the teenager never knew his father, and his mother abandoned him when he was 2 months old.
