Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro said during a radio broadcast on Thursday that he was applying for a U.S. visa to attend a salsa music festival in New York City next month, omitting that the U.S. government has not only sanctioned him but is offering up to $15 million for information leading to his arrest on charges of drug trafficking.
The government of India on Sunday announced “tourist visas issued to nationals of China are no longer valid.” The Times of India called it a “tit-for-tat move” in retaliation for China barring over 20,000 Indian students from returning to Chinese soil after they ventured abroad.
A first-grade teacher and another individual in North Carolina have been arrested on methamphetamine trafficking charges. The Fayetteville Police Department (FPD) said in a release that detectives seized more than four pounds of methamphetamine during the investigation.
The Justice Department announced Tuesday that a dual U.S. and Russian citizen had been charged for allegedly being an illegal Russian agent.
Britain is to revise its visa rules for Ukrainian citizens, allowing up to 200,000 to settle in the country so long as they already have family within the UK.
Britain’s Conservative Party government has loosened rules surrounding Ukrainian visas in order to allow close relatives of British Citizens to more easily come to the UK.
An American woman who survived a forced child marriage is warning that President Joe Biden’s massive Afghan resettlement operation to the United States may be aiding and abetting “in a culture of forced marriage” between minor girls and adult men.
President Joe Biden’s administration released a report this month that claims climate change is causing the mass migration of people being forced from their homes and communities.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says some Afghans “for understandable reasons” are committing visa fraud to try to get to the United States.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped charges against five members of the Chinese military whom federal prosecutors previously accused of lying to obtain visas to get jobs and a doctoral spot at United States universities.
The House on Thursday made special visas, reserved for Afghans who can get refuge in the U.S. for aiding the American war effort, available to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other groups.
The Taliban released a statement on Monday reassuring Afghans who worked with U.S. and NATO forces as interpreters and assistants there is no need to flee the country now that foreign militaries are pulling out as the Taliban has no plans to kill them.
The government of Greece is set to roll out a new “digital nomad” visa for those able to work remotely, with the plan expected to favour post-Brexit Britain by offering British citizens visas twice as long as other countries.
The United Kingdom witnessed 18 million passenger arrivals and issued nearly 670,000 new visas during the first year of coronavirus restrictions, prompting concern that the government will never be able to reach long-promised migration targets.
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), told his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday the UAE will roll over a $2 billion loan and “extend every possible support” in an effort to improve relations between the two countries.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced visa restrictions Monday for “officials of the Chinese Communist Party and People’s Republic of China believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, the repression of members of ethnic minority groups, religious practitioners, and human rights defenders.”
Philippine Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said on Tuesday that roughly 2,800 Chinese nationals granted “visas upon arrival” under a program to encourage Chinese tourism have overstayed their visas and will now be expelled from the country.
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden is eyeing Texas in his last week on the campaign trail as the Washington Post reports that Democrats see opportunity in the Lone Star state thanks to “demographic changes” that have secured Virginia and Colorado for them.
A stampede in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, that killed at least 12 women and injured many more on Wednesday was caused by desperation to get hold of Pakistani visas, local officials confirmed.
President Donald Trump answered a town hall question about the roughly 700,000 young illegal migrants protected by the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty, saying, “We’re going to take care of Dreamers.”
The U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday it has revoked over 1,000 visas for Chinese nationals due to national security concerns.
A majority of undecided voters say they see immigration as a labor issue, supporting reductions to legal immigration in order to protect the United States labor market from cheap, foreign competition, a survey finds.
The Philippines stopped issuing visas to foreigners, banning all nationalities from entering the country, this week in an effort to stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus throughout the island nation.
Naturalized U.S. citizen Edward Peng Xuehua was sentenced to 48 months in prison and fined $30,000 Tuesday after being convicted of passing sensitive U.S. information to China on behalf of Beijing’s Ministry of State Security (MSS).
Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, is touting a new visa program to flood small American towns with legal immigrants to grow the regions’ populations — a boon to corporate investors, housing developers, and big business.
The allotment of green cards to foreign nationals arriving from countries listed on President Trump’s travel ban have continued almost unchanged, dropping by less than five percent, since 2017.
More than 260,000 foreign nationals have been legally admitted to the United States from all 13 travel ban countries between 2016 and 2018.
An illegal alien has pleaded guilty to helping fraudulently secure visas for illegal aliens who falsely claimed to be crime victims.
The majority of likely swing voters say they want to end the process known as “chain migration,” wherein newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the United States, a new poll finds.
Prosecutors announced on Thursday that police have detained ten people during the investigation of a visa scam that brought thousands of Chinese into Taiwan, some of whom may have been Chinese espionage assets.
An open borders lobbying group, partially funded by billionaire George Soros, says “we need to abolish” the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to protect foreign nationals accused of visa fraud.
A Korean-born immigration lawyer faces years in jail for allegedly selling green cards and citizenship rights to more than 125 Koreans.
President Trump expanded the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), adding Poland to the list of 38 counties from which nationals can freely travel to the United States without a visa, despite warnings from investigators who reviewed failures in the immigration system after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
President Donald Trump did not endorse Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s green-cards-for-India bill when he spoke at the Sunday rally in Texas attended by 50,000 Indian supporters of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan said Bahamians will be allowed into the U.S. without travel documents.
Pete Buttigieg says he will aid families in rural America by importing more migrants — even though mass-migration policies are already pulling wealth and young Americans from rural areas into major cities.
Mainland China suspended its visa program for tourist visits to Taiwan on Thursday, ostensibly because relations across the Taiwan Strait have deteriorated. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen denounced the move as an effort to apply economic pressure against the island ahead of its presidential election in January.
Hungarian Cabinet spokesman Zoltán Kovács has said pro-migrant proposals agreed by the UN and EU show they “are serious about legalising illegal migration, contrary to the will of the people.”
Around 2,000 migrants are expected to leave Italy per month as humanitarian residency permits expire, following the passage of the migration and security decree drafted by populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
The communist regime running Cuba protested on Thursday to allegedly having its diplomats blocked from receiving visas to work at the Cuban embassy in Washington or the United Nations. The Trump administration limited the number of Cuban agents in the U.S. following the sudden unexplained illness of American diplomats in Havana.
