A group of U.S. lawmakers want to make it easier to kick foreigners out of the country whose visas have been revoked for security reasons. Meanwhile in Texas, the National Guard has taken control of a public park close to the southern border. NTD’s Arian Pasdar has the latest on U.S. immigration policies.
A border dispute between New Delhi and Beijing left three Indian Asian Games athletes stranded at home. “We’re all sad,” said Onilu Tega, an Indian woman wushu athlete. She stated that Visa issues were the reason why she couldn’t travel to the games. That’s because the absent trio comes from India’s eastern state, which Beijing […]
SYDNEY—American rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, may not be suitable for an Australian visa because of his history of anti-Semitic remarks, a government minister said on Wednesday, as pressure mounted to deny the award-winning rapper entry. Minister for Education Jason Clare condemned Ye’s “awful” anti-Semitic comments involving Hitler and the Holocaust, saying others […]
BEIJING—Chinese embassies suspended issuing new visas for South Koreans and Japanese on Tuesday in apparent retaliation for COVID-19 testing requirements recently imposed by those countries on travelers from China. The embassies in Tokyo and Seoul announced the suspensions in brief online notices. The Seoul notice, posted on the embassy’s WeChat social media account, said the […]
The Biden administration is set to allow nearly 65,000 H-2B foreign visa workers to take on nonagricultural jobs in the United States over the next nine months. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a final rule on Dec. 12, allowing nonagricultural employers to apply for 64,716 additional visas for the […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—The leaders of Estonia and Finland want fellow European countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens, saying they should not be able to take vacations in Europe while the Russian government carries out a war in Ukraine. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas wrote Tuesday on Twitter that “visiting Europe is a privilege, […]
Some 584,885 foreigners overstayed their visas in fiscal year 2020, according to a newly released report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS released the report this week but made it appear as if it were released in September 2021 after being pressured by Republican senators for defying the law and not releasing it. […]
Evacuations from Afghanistan resumed the week of September 11th, as the Taliban allowed the first flights to take off from Kabul’s airport after the U.S. pullout on Aug. 31. As rescue efforts continue, private groups have taken the lead role. We speak to Rick Clay who runs Afghan Rescue Crew (ARC) Plan B to hear […]
Britain won 65 medals at the Tokyo Olympics, making it the second most successful Olympics overseas. The Times newspaper says the Chinese regime is abusing a special visa scheme designed for Hongkongers to send its spies to the UK. Scotland lifts most of its COVID-19 restrictions, but masks are still required in some settings.
A Chinese state-owned media is using its strongest language yet to threaten the United States—after Beijing simulated an invasion of Taiwan in a military exercise. The president of the Philippines announces that his country’s friendship with communist China is over. He tells Beijing, “Kill me if you want to kill me, I will be here.” […]
Beijing is acknowledging that the United States has suspended visas for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials and their families. The new visa curb applies to officials working at four major regime agencies involved in human rights abuses.
The Biden administration has announced it will offer 22,000 extra seasonal guest worker visas to employers “likely to suffer irreparable harm” to their businesses without such employees, with 6,000 visas reserved for people from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, in a bid to “expand lawful pathways for opportunity in the United States.”
On Nov. 2, China’s foreign ministry accused the United States of giving Chinese journalists visas that are soon set to expire. This May, the Trump administration reduced Chinese journalists’ visas to 90 days, with an option to extend. That followed China expelling American journalists from several mainstream media from the country. Spokesperson Wang said some […]
WASHINGTON/BEIJING—The United States is blocking visas for certain Chinese graduate students and researchers to prevent them from stealing sensitive information, the acting head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said on Sept. 9. Chad Wolf repeated U.S. charges of unjust business practices and industrial espionage by the regime in China, including attempts to steal […]
Four Republican senators have written to President Donald Trump, pressing that he suspend issuing guest work visas to compensate for the jobs lost due to the CCP virus pandemic. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Trump on May 7 urging him to extend […]
