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The Chinese government celebrated heavy travel and tourism during China’s Labor Day holiday season, which ran from May 1 to May 5, as a sign the struggling economy is beginning to recover.

Tories have decided it is now time to act, prompting Labour to quip: “who do [they] think has been in charge for the past 13 years?”.

When asked what he would do about it, the Prime Minister seemed sanguine, saying only “we will look at that”. 

Democrats on the Boston City Council are looking to extend local voting rights to foreign nationals in the United States legally.

Republicans are coalescing around a plan to revoke the visas, particularly for foreign students, of Hamas sympathizers.

Reps. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) and Andy Ogles (R-TN) are introducing legislation that would ban President Joe Biden’s administration from importing Palestinians to the United States to be resettled in American communities.

The Chinese government announced on Wednesday that it has taken “appropriate” measures in retaliation for India refusing to grant visas to Chinese reporters.

Net immigration into the UK is set to once again rise to a record high in 2023, experts in the field have said.

An American think-tank has launched a lawsuit demanding that the U.S. government hand over files relating to Prince Harry’s visa application in light of his drug taking.

Germany put a temporary halt on admissions of asylum seekers from Afghanistan after claims that migrants may have been abusing the system.

Britain has reportedly launched an investigation into its visa rules amid fears that authorities have let hostile Islamist preachers into the country.

The European Union is considering restricting visas to countries that do not accept deportations following a meeting in Sweden. 

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suggested he believes he can get away with increasing mass legal immigration if he can convince the public he is tackling illegal immigration. 

At a time when immigration into Britain is at a record high, the UK government has agreed a visa deal with India that will allow more migrants into the country.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who the administration of leftist President Joe Biden personally sanctioned last year in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, received a visa to enter America for this month’s United Nations General Assembly, Moscow confirmed on Tuesday.

The number of American jobs outsourced to foreign visa workers each year has exploded in recent decades to over half a million, federal data suggests. 

The Irish government has suspended visa-free travel for refugees from safe European countries for the next 12 months but has made exemptions for Ukrainian refugees. The Irish government announced the policy change, which will require refugees in safe European countries

Countries that fail to take back their criminal migrants and failed asylum seekers could end up being sanctioned by the UK government according to new plans.

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.