Tag: US Visa

• Tuesday, August 13th 2019 - 07:26 UTC

  Trump latest: “wealth test” rule for immigrants could deny visas and residency to thousands of poor applicants

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled a sweeping rule on Monday that some experts say could cut legal immigration in half by denying visas and permanent residency to hundreds of thousands of people for being too poor.

• Friday, February 9th 2018 - 20:23 UTC

  US extends Timerman a new visa who can now fly to New York

  

  United States handed this week a new visa to Argentina's ex foreign minister Hector Timerman, after having revoked the document almost a month ago. Current foreign minister Jorge Faurie was instrumental in obtaining the visa, according to Buenos Aires diplomatic sources.

• Saturday, November 5th 2016 - 10:17 UTC

  Ezeiza airport shortlisted for 'domestic' gateway into the U.S.

  

  Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport was shortlisted by the Department of Homeland Security of the United States along with ten other terminals in the world to be of “assessed preference” in the preclearance program.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2015 - 06:46 UTC

  Maduro gives US two weeks to cut size of Caracas embassy staff to 17

  

  Venezuela's government has given the U.S. two weeks to slash the size of its embassy staff in Caracas to 17 diplomats as tensions between the two nations rise. Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez made the announcement Monday after a meeting with the top American diplomat in Caracas. She said it is up to the U.S. to decide which of an estimated 100 diplomats it wishes to send home.

• Wednesday, August 29th 2012 - 03:02 UTC

  Daughter of Cuban economy “reforms tsar” flees to the US and is living in Tampa

  

  The 24-year-old daughter of Cuban Vice President Marino Murillo, sometimes mentioned as a possible successor to ruler Raul Castro, defected earlier this month and is now living in Tampa, Florida, according to Miami’s El Nuevo Heraldo.

• Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 06:09 UTC

  Brazil has become the fourth largest source of tourists to the US

  

  Brazil ranks as the fourth largest source of overseas visitors to the United States with 1.5 million visits in 2011, which represents a 26% increase from 2010 said the State Department in a release. With these figures on the table “the Department of State is taking action to expand the already extensive ties between our nations”.

• Saturday, October 1st 2011 - 05:34 UTC

  NYC mayor blasts US visa policy: turning away skilled workers ‘national suicide’

  

  The United States needs to allow more visas to help the economy and should let highly skilled engineers who study in US universities stay in the country, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in Washington.