Culture
8 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in Partner Visa 820 and 801 Applications
The Australian Partner Visa (subclass 820/801) is one of the most document-heavy and closely-examined categories of visa in the…
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Culture
8 Ways Business Owners Can Improve Protection Visa Approval Chances
The application for a Protection Visa (Subclass 866) is one of the most scrutinized immigration processes in Australia. Each claim is…
Business
Iran introduces punitive visa requirements for Lebanese after Beirut cancels bilateral agreement
Lebanese citizens will now be charged €20 for entering Iran, with a €10 euro deduction if the visit is religious in nature. Tehran…
Business
Three African countries agree to UK migrant returns after visa penalty threat
Three African countries have agreed to take back foreign offenders and illegal migrants after the UK Home Secretary threatened them with…
News
Trump Suspends Visa Processing for 75 Countries as ICE Terror Spreads
The full list of countries subject to the freeze is: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas,…
Blog
5 questions about the diversity visa lottery shutdown
Trump ordered Homeland Security to shut down the program after learning that Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the gunman who attacked Brown…
News
Trump Wants People to Submit DNA Just to Get a Tourist Visa
“I don’t want to file perjury charges against you, but I’m of the opinion that the Trump administration—DHS, your DHS—approved the asylum…
Blog
Foreigners allowed to travel to the U.S. without a visa could soon face new social media screening
Foreigners who are allowed to come to the United States without a visa could soon be required to submit information about their social…
Culture
Visa, Mastercard to cut fees, let retailers reject certain cards
VISA and Mastercard reached a deal with retailers to reduce some of their fees and give merchants more leeway to reject customers who use…
Business
Visa fee U-turn for man hoping to reunite family
A father who could not afford to apply for a visa needed to move his family from Canada to the UK has had the fee waived. Christopher…
Culture
Visa quarterly profit rises on strong transaction volumes
Visa reported a rise in fourth-quarter adjusted profit on Tuesday (Oct 28), as strong consumer spending helped the global payments…
Business
Father says visa cost is keeping his family apart
A father says he is living thousands of miles from his family because he cannot afford the visa application for them to move to the UK.…
Culture
US$100,000 H-1B visa fee may draw top talent to Asia: analysts
Singapore will benefit from the H-1B1 visa exemption, they say, while US SMEs and startups will be hit the hardest The hefty new…
News
Doctors Issue Stark Warning Against Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Rule
“Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars. Still more, it should not be…
Culture
US: Wall Street opens lower after rally, Trump’s visa crackdown weighs
WALL Street’s main indices opened lower on Monday (Sep 22) after rallying to record highs in the previous session, while uncertainty…
News
Trump Just Effectively Ended the H-1B Visa Program
President Donald Trump will reportedly seek to increase the cost of an H-1B temporary visa by nearly 1,000 percent via a forthcoming…
Business
Burkina Faso scraps visa fees for African travellers
Burkina Faso says it has removed visa fees for all African travellers, in an effort to facilitate the movement of people and goods into…
Culture
Visa closes US open-banking unit as data fight heats up: source
Open banking has gained traction in Europe, where regulators required banks to share data with licensed third parties, but the US lacks…
Culture
Visa beats quarterly estimates on resilient consumer spending but steady forecast drags shares
Visa beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter profit and revenue on Tuesday (Jul 29), as the global payments processing company was…
Culture
China’s quant funds boost US recruiting after Trump’s visa curbs
Chinese quantitative hedge funds are stepping up efforts to hire science and engineering students in the US affected by US President…
Culture
Visa, Mastercard race to tame a US$253 billion crypto threat
A turf war is breaking out in the vast world of digital payments – and the incumbents are suddenly on defence. Tech firms and crypto…
News
Trump’s Immigration Team Goes Full Fascist With Threat to Visa Holders
Fox News’s efforts to make Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani seem like a bad influence for New York City are only making him…
Business
Home Office accused of ‘racist crackdown’ on Nigerians after denial of visit visa
The Home Office has been accused of a “racist crackdown on Nigerians” after refusing a visa to a man who runs one of the west African…
Lifestyle
Trump Administration Freezes Student Visa Interviews Amid Crackdown
The Trump Administration has moved to suspend new student and exchange visitor visa interview appointments, signaling a sharp escalation…