International students denied U.S. entry under new visa rules

By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – International students have already been denied entry to the United States under new Trump administration rules that bar them from the country if their…

States sue Trump administration over college student visa rule

WASHINGTON – Seventeen states and the District of Columbia sued President Donald Trump’s administration Monday to block a new rule that would force international college students to leave United States…

U.S. Visa Changes Leave Students in Limbo

Loay Alem, an engineering student from Saudi Arabia who is attending University of California Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, July 7, 2020. (Kendrick Brinson/The New York Times) LONDON — Oliver…

Foreign students fret over being sent home after U.S. visa rule

By Kristina Cooke, Mimi Dwyer and Humeyra Pamuk (Reuters) – When the phone rang Tuesday morning, Raul Romero had barely slept. The 21-year-old Venezuelan, on a scholarship at Ohio’s Kenyon…

I Got A Medical Tourist Visa To Give Birth In Another Country

The three of us at our temporary home in Bangkok just a few days after my daughter’s birth. (Photo: Photo Courtesy of Elen Turner) The phrase “medical tourism” might make…

Will Western Union, Visa And Revolut Drive The Next Wave Of M&A Activity In The Payments And Money Transfer Sectors?

Western Union CEO Hikmet Ersek ASSOCIATED PRESS Each December for the past few years, this author, along with many others, predicted further consolidation in the cross-border payments market. Competition has…

Surging cost of visa appointments in wake of coronavirus leaving families without legal documentation

Bedford Point UKVCAS Core Centre in Croydon, where the prices of visa appointments have surged: Google Maps People living in the UK legally are being left without proof of their…

Why international students may have Big Tech to thank for the US’s visa reversal

Sometimes, it helps to have friends in high places. A coalition of powerful U.S. technology companies and trade organizations threw their support behind a legal challenge — launched by Harvard…