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The Sudanese-born Australian writer and activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied, 27, has been denied entry in the United States last week, and deported within just three hours. From the moment she was told she could not enter the US until she returned back to London, where she resides, she had been tweeting about what was going on. "I’m currently at the border and they’ve said I’m being deported. This should be fun. What are my rights?" she tweeted at [...]

The popular H-1B visa program, which gives the opportunity to foreigners of areas which require specialized knowledge to come to the United States and fill available jobs, has reached its cap within just 5 days. While application opened on April 2, by Monday the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service announced through a press release published on its official website that the congressionally-mandated 65,000 H-1B visa cap for fiscal year 2019 has been reached, and a sufficient [...]

If you are planning to obtain a visa to the United States of America, keep in mind that from now on you will probably have to submit your phone number, email and social media history of the five previous years. That's because the US State Department is planning to start requiring these details from the applicants among other documents and information. According to a notice posted by the Federal Register, the Department is revising the collection to [...]

Israeli applicants with a valid visa no longer need to show up at the US embassy in Tel Aviv for a personal interview in order to renew their visa. Lately, the US embassy in Israel announced that Israeli citizens who wish to visit the US are now eligible for the Visa Interview Waiver program. Which means that Israelis can now apply online to renew their visas, and send their passport to the embassy by mail. According to [...]

16 percent less international students have successfully obtained a visa to the United States during 2017, compared to the previous year, an analysis by The Sunday Telegraph has found. The analysis shows that 6 percent less British students have succeeded in getting a visa to the US, with the number dropping from 4,753 in 2016 to 4,470 in 2017. What makes 2017, the year when least Britons were granted with a US visa, since 2010. While during [...]