Aliens from space

Possibly old news, but the first time I've heard it:

For the first time, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service,
after some prodding by the U.S. State Department, will officially
allow two aliens from space to land in the United States. It seems
that U.S. entry visas for cosmonauts Vladimir Dezurov and Grennady
Strekalov were forgotten before the launch of Mir-18. They were
launched from Kazakstan on March 14 and are scheduled to land either
in Florida or California in early July aboard the Space Shuttle
Atlantis (STS-71). The U.S. State Department has, for the first
time, asked for a waiver for "aliens from outer space." The INS has
agreed not to arrest the cosmonauts for illegal entry into the
United States. (This was in 1995)