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Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic sparked a major controversy in Australia when he tried to enter the country to play in the upcoming Australian Open using a medical exemption for coronavirus vaccination. His request was initially granted, but his visa was revoked when he arrived at Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne on Wednesday.

E-commerce giant Amazon recently announced that it will no longer accept payments made with Visa credit cards issued in the UK, blaming the decision on high fees. Visa says that it is “very disappointed that Amazon is threatening to restrict consumer choice in the future.”

The international organization Human Rights Watch demanded in a statement on Sunday that sponsors of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics certify that and explain how their participation in the event – held in a country currently committing genocide – does not involve or enable gross human rights atrocities.

Prince Harry’s eco tourism firm Travalyst announced Thursday it is teaming up with tech giant Google to promote itself to the world.

Simone Biles’ sponsors, including Athleta and Visa, are lauding her decision to put her mental health first and withdraw from the gymnastics team competition during the Olympics.

Over 30 women sued Pornhub Thursday and accused the site of violating federal sex trafficking laws, distributing child porn, racketeering, and additional crimes.

China’s state-run Global Times reported on Monday that visa applications will be “streamlined” for foreign visitors who have been inoculated with vaccines produced in China.

Mastercard and Visa announced they are investigating allegations made in a New York Times column that Pornhub is posting videos that portray child abuse on its adult website.

Reps. Jordan and Reschenthaler are requesting the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a government watchdog, review to what extent the Chinese Communist Party is abusing the U.S.’s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program.

The Philippine government on Friday announced that U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) have been banned from visiting the country due to “interfering with our processes as a sovereign state,” as Philippine presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo put it. More specifically, Durbin and Leahy have been involved in the case of incarcerated Philippine Sen. Leila de Lima, who they regard as a political prisoner.

Credit card giant Visa is warning its cardholders that cyber criminals are targeting gas pumps in order to steal personal credit card data.

Many millions of Indian graduates should be allowed to take white-collar jobs from U.S. college graduates, says a coalition of top U.S. business leaders.

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency has been dealt a major blow as partners eBay, Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe announced in quick succession Friday that they are withdrawing from the project.

The federal government approved a visa for a national from Saudi Arabia in 2011 who attended an al-Qaeda training camp, the Islamic terrorist organization responsible for the September 11, 2001, attacks.

“Nationally, I think we should make it possible for everybody to obtain identifications so that cities like mine don’t have to create solutions like this,” he said.

A coalition of groups in the migration industry is demanding the government provide more ‘healthcare visas’ to help illegal migrants use Americans’ healthcare dollars.  

Visa chairman and CEO Alfred Kelly says his company will continue to process gun sales as long as buying guns is a legal activity.

The U.S. State Department has reportedly granted a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif so he can attend a meeting this week at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

Social media giant Facebook is expected to reveal its new digital cryptocurrency next week, backed by Visa, Mastercard, Uber, and others.

Democrat presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke says employers should be able to hire foreign workers instead of Americans whenever there are “labor demands.”

Zhao Qianli, 21, was sentenced on Tuesday to a year in federal prison for taking photographs of sensitive parts of the Naval Air Station in Key West, Florida. He was an exchange student from the North University of China studying in the U.S. at the time of his arrest.

One of the most persistent Brexit scare stories was disarmed Friday after the European Council themselves announced Brits would enjoy visa-free travel across Europe after Brexit.

It is the most totalitarian form of blacklisting: not just to be prevented from speaking on a university campus, or to be kicked off social media, but to be shut out of the entire financial system. That is the terrifying new threat to freedom that western societies must now contend with.

The New York Times is pressuring credit card giants to monitor customers’ buying habits and blacklist gun purchases. 

The Chinese Foreign Ministry finally admitted on Thursday that Chinese police arrested a third Canadian over the past week. The detainee is a woman named Sarah McIver said to be suffering “administrative punishment” due to her “illegal employment.”

The mastermind and architect behind the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks on the United States, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was able to obtain a visa to enter the U.S. just six weeks before the attacks. 

The David Horowitz Freedom Center has had its ability to accept credit card donations restored after the initial decision to financially blacklist the organization was made by payment processor Worldpay allegedly at the request of Mastercard. Horowitz credits Breitbart News and the Drudge Report for bringing attention to the story on Friday.

The David Horowitz Freedom Center has allegedly had their donation processing system blocked by Visa and Mastercard following a campaign by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a statement on Wednesday explaining that Jany Leveille, the apparent spiritual leader of the New Mexico compound where a group of Muslim extremists held 11 starving children and evidently killed a small child, is an illegal alien from Haiti who overstayed her visa by over 20 years.

The Home Office is allowing women with severe mental disabilities to be forcibly married and raped, in Britain and Pakistan, so that foreign men can obtain a visa and stay in the country.

Government officials are handing visas to the husbands of girls who have been forcibly married, raped, and impregnated abroad, allowing them to settle in Britain permanently.

The financial services company Visa has announced that it will no longer use actor Morgan Freeman for its commercials amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment. 

Canadian authorities, noting an influx of illegal aliens coming across the border and draining the country’s resources, are asking the United States to better enforce its immigration laws to keep Nigerian refugees from making their way to Canada.

Wells Fargo stemmed the tide of the push for new financial restrictions on gun makers and sellers by stressing that it is not a bank’s job to set U.S. gun policy.

Citibank used a March 22 “Commercial Firearms Policy” to announce a requirement that gun stores quit selling “high capacity” magazines in order to do business with the bank.

Visa rejected calls to cut ties with semiautomatic rifle manufacturers by announcing it is not their job to “[set] restrictions on the sale of lawful goods and services.”