Category: Americas

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

US CDC Updates COVID-19 Guidelines

The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its COVID-19 guidance to help the public better protect themselves and understand their risk as the virus now poses significantly less risk of severe illness, hospitalisation and death compared to early on in the pandemic. “We’re in a stronger place today as a nation,…
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US To Remove Green Card Cap

The United States has proposed a bill that focuses on a skills-based approach for employment-based visas and supports the reduction of immigration backlogs by slowly eliminating the per-country cap over a nine-year period. The Immigration Bill, HR 3648 also called “The Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment (EAGLE) ACT of 2022“ was originally…
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Costa Rica’s Digital Nomad Visa

Applications for Costa Rica’s digital nomad programme have opened. The Digital Nomad Visa was signed into law in 2021 by president Carlos Alvardo. It was expected that details would be released soon after that. However, the program hit a few snags, causing a delay until early July 2022, when Alvarado finalised the regulations. But, after…
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UK Visa Delays

If you have recently applied for a UK visa, you will probably be aware that it may take longer to receive a decision on your application due to widespread delays currently impacting Home Office processing times. The UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) office is currently facing a high volume of applications for visas, resulting in…
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The US Will No Longer Honour Expired Passports As of July

As of July 1, Americans returning to the US from abroad are no longer allowed to enter the country with an expired US passport.  This had previously been allowed for passports that expired from January 2020 due to delays in processing. The rule was originally supposed to end in March of this year, but it…
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