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BRUSSELS, Nov 13, 2023 (AFP) – People applying for visas to visit Europe’s Schengen area will soon do so via an online platform, under a change adopted by EU foreign ministers on Monday. The shift towards digitalisation of the visa process will also do away with the need for applicants to get a sticker in their passport, meaning no more appointments at consulates or service providers’ offices. The change, unveiled after a months-long legislative process, […]
by Daniel STUBLEN Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — China will once again start issuing a range of visas to foreigners as of Wednesday, the country’s embassy in Washington said, a major easing of travel restrictions in force since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The move marks the latest step towards reopening China to the outside world, as Beijing gradually breaks with the strict zero-Covid strategy that defined its pandemic response until a […]
Prague, Czech Republic (AFP) EU foreign ministers on Wednesday agreed to suspend a 2007 visa facilitation deal with Russia but stopped short of a wider visa ban as requested by some member states. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the ministers had agreed that relations with Moscow “cannot be business as usual” and the agreement should be “fully suspended”. Following the informal meeting in Prague, he said this would make it “more difficult” and […]
Card payment giants Visa and Mastercard announced Saturday they will suspend operations in Russia, the latest major US firms to join the business freeze-out of Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. “Noting the unprecedented nature of the current conflict and the uncertain economic environment,” Mastercard said it had “decided to suspend our network services in Russia.” Visa, for its part, said that “effective immediately” it would “work with its clients and partners within Russia to cease […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — The UAE announced a new visa Sunday allowing foreigners to work in the country without being sponsored by an employer, loosening residency requirements in an attempt to boost economic growth. Foreigners in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates are generally only given limited visas tied to their employment, and long-term residency is difficult to obtain. But those holding the new “green visa” will be able to work without company sponsorship, […]
(Eagle News) — Foreigners who were hired to work here by employers based in the Philippines may now be given work visas, the Bureau of Immigration announced. According to the bureau, this was after Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente issued an operations order allowing companies that wish to engage such services to apply for a 9(g) working visa on behalf of those foreigners outside the Philippines. Upon approval by the bureau, the order granting the visa […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States has revoked visas of more than 1,000 Chinese students and researchers under an order by President Donald Trump that accused some of them of espionage, the State Department said Wednesday. Trump, in a May 29 proclamation as tensions rose with Beijing on multiple fronts, declared that some Chinese nationals officially in the United States for study have stolen intellectual property and helped modernize China’s military. The State […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday the United States will ban visas to some employees of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, which Washington is seeking to isolate. “The State Department will impose visa restrictions on certain employees of the Chinese technology companies like Huawei that provide material support to regimes engaging in human rights violations and abuses,” Pompeo told a news conference. © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte’s threat to end the Visiting Forces Agreement if the United States does not reverse the cancellation of Senator Ronald Dela Rosa’s US visa was all about “one-sided foreign relations,” the senator himself said. In a statement, Dela Rosa said Duterte was, after all, a “leader who doesn’t want his people treated unfairly.” “Ok lang mga sundalo nila labas-masok sa ating teritoryo while a senator of this republic is barred from entering their […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday threatened a visa ban on the crew of an Iranian supertanker whose departure from Gibraltar Washington failed to block. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said the Grace 1 was assisting Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, which the US deems a “terrorist organization,” meaning crew members “may be ineligible for visas or admission to the United States under the terrorism-related inadmissibility grounds.” © Agence France-Presse
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Several California residents were arrested Tuesday in connection with a scheme to help Chinese nationals obtain student visas by hiring people to take English proficiency exams for the foreign students. Federal authorities allege that those involved in the plot used counterfeit Chinese passports to impersonate 19 different students who were required to take the so-called TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) exam in order to get a […]
(Eagle News)–Immigration agents arrested two Africans for using fake Canadian visas, the Bureau of Immigration announced on Sunday, Feb. 17. In a statement, the BI said Cameroonian Etienne Makang Nformem, 35, was arrested on Feb. 9, upon his arrival via a Gulf Air flight from Bahrain at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. He had said he was going to Toronto, Canada after three days. Four days later, Sudanese Abdelmotalab Idris Himat Mohamed, 29, was apprehended at NAIA […]
