Teachers can face consequences of license revocations, suspensions, and written reprimands. Appellants requested and received hearings to review the revocations of their passports. Revocations under subsection 10(2) only applied to those with citizenship or nationality in another country. Both appellants appealed to the Board of Passport Appeals which recommended affirmance of the revocations. The examiners recommended that the passport revocations be sustained. In a closed Executive Session, the Delegates upheld the membership revocations. Most of these revocations have held up in court. The citizenship revocations were discussed on the newly launched al-Arab News Channel on 1 February. Such revocations have occurred over the history of the decoration. The charter revocations represented nearly a third of the union's national membership.