Category: Immigration updates

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

US Travel Update: US Opens Travel from Other Countries

DHS Terminates COVID-related Flight Arrival Restrictions The U.S. Government published an announcement confirming that it will stop requiring the arrivals of international flights to only a certain number of airports in the US. But the reason the decision has been reached is not new. Starting on September 14, 2020, the original restrictions aimed at stopping…
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Trump Cancels Visas for Over 1,000 Chinese Nationals

The United States revoked visas for more than 1,000 Chinese nationals to prevent visa abuse & research Theft under a presidential proclamation. The move denies entry to students and researchers deemed a security risk by the State Department. China has called the moves a violation of human rights. Under a presidential proclamation announced on late…
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Judge Urges Trump Administration to Grant Visas to Green Card Lottery Winners - DV Program Lottery

Judge Urges Trump Administration to Grant Visas to Green Card Lottery Winners

President Donald Trump’s administration was ordered by a federal judge in Washington to resume issuing immigrant diversity visas to persons who won them through the US Green Card lottery 2020. This is after the Green card procedures were frozen amid the COVID-19 ban on temporary US work visas. The Green card lottery, also known as…
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Spain backs Kuwait’s Schengen visa waiver request

The Spanish Parliament supports the exemptions of Kuwaiti citizens from visa requirements to enter the Schengen area, the Spanish Senate President Pilar Llop has announced. Additionally, Llop said he would back this effort within the European Parliament (EP) during his recent visit to Kuwait, where he met Kuwait’s Ambassador to Madrid Eyada Al-Saeedi,  Kuwait has…
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United States Visas: Couples Re-Unite, US K Visas to Resume Urgently

US Resumes Processing K Visas, as a Priority The United States government has announced that the processing of K visa applications will be resumed with high priority, according to the United States Department of State announcement. K visas are US visas created for international citizens who are married or plan to marry a citizen of…
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