They've 'obtained' [='acquired'] the necessary permission to enter.
These ideas no longer 'obtain' for our generation.
The drug is legally 'obtainable' in this country.
(..) Then by train or auto or foot across the rim of Africa... ...to Casablanca in French Morocco. Here, the fortunate ones, through money or influence or luck... ...might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon. And from Lisbon to the New World. But the others wait in Casablanca. And wait... (..)1942 Casablanca