Getty Images Tuvalu is the world’s second lowest-lying country More than a third of Tuvalu citizens have entered the ballot for a world-first climate visa which would allow them to permanently migrate to Australia. Opening for the first intake on 16 June, the influx of registrations could indicate that programme will be hugely oversubscribed, with...
West Indies spinner Akeal Hosein and batter Jyd Goolie have been unable to travel to the UK for the upcoming matches against England and Ireland because of visa issues. Both remain in Trinidad having failed to gain visas after UK entry requirements were updated for Trinidad and Tobago citizens on 23 April. Hosein, 32, second...
Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington DC Bloomberg via Getty Images On Tuesday, Harvard University students held a protest in support of international students US President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered embassies to stop scheduling appointments for student visas as it prepares to expand social media vetting of such applicants. In a copy of a memo...
Rubio pointed to Trump’s supposed “antisemitism” orders in a cable announcing upcoming guidance. The Trump administration has put a pause on new student visa application interviews as it prepares to expand its surveillance of the social media activity of those seeking to study in the U.S., Politico reports, in the latest instance of the administration’s...
Something tells me that the foreign-student agitator issue won’t trouble Columbia University for long. They may not get the chance to be troubled by foreign students at all after yesterday’s disgraceful paroxysm of anti-Semitic intimidation and violence. As both John and David have already recounted, pro-Hamas demonstrators seized control of yet another building on the...
South African firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema says he has been denied a visa to attend a conference in the UK on 10 May. Malema said the UK had no “substantial justification” for its decision, and he saw it as an “attempt to silence a dissenting political perspective”. In a leaked letter to Malema’s deputy,...
Visa applications from nationalities thought most likely to overstay and claim asylum in the UK could be restricted under a new government crackdown. Under Home Office plans, first reported in the Times, people from countries such as Pakistan, Nigeria and Sri Lanka may find it more difficult to come to the UK to work and...
The administration says that it is restoring student visa records while it drafts a new policy to allow terminations. The Trump administration is walking back visa record terminations for thousands of students across the U.S. after suffering numerous losses in court and admitting last week that officials do not have the authority to terminate students’...
Paul Seddon Political reporter Getty Images The government is no longer ruling out a youth visa deal with the EU, ahead of a summit next month to “reset” relations after Brexit. Labour has previously said it has “no plans” for such a scheme, which would make it easier for young people to study and work...
“You are not welcome here,” read a chilling statement from a top DHS official. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it is monitoring immigrants’ social media accounts for supposed “antisemitism” — a seeming code word for speech criticizing Israel’s U.S.-backed occupation of Palestine and genocide of Palestinians. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...
No one can claim they hadn’t been warned. Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued last month that the US offers student visas for those who wish to study in this country, not agitate and contribute to illegal actions on behalf of terrorist organizations. And the same is true for applications to emigrate to the US,...
South Sudan has criticised the revoking of US visas for all its nationals, saying it was based on an incident involving a citizen of a different African country. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the visa ban on Saturday, citing South Sudan’s refusal to accept the return of its citizens being removed from the...
The former president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, says his US visa has been revoked. Arias, a Nobel laureate, said he was informed of the decision weeks after he had publicly criticised Donald Trump, comparing the behaviour of the US president to that of a Roman emperor. The 84-year-old, who was awarded the Nobel Peace...
Tamasin Ford BBC Global Disinformation Unit and Africa Eye Undercover footage shows Dr Kelvin Alaneme explaining how he sells UK jobs to foreign nationals Recruitment agents who scam foreign nationals applying to work in the UK care sector have been exposed by BBC secret filming. One of the rogue agents is a Nigerian doctor who...