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Investment limits for US 'Golden Visa' likely to be hiked


... Trump admin arms immigration officials to outright reject H-1B applications · New rule allows deportation if H-1B extension is rejected · Over 20 Indian-origin persons sentenced in massive call center scam in US · 'Closely engaged' with US on H-1B ...

Trump proposes to end visa lottery system


Washington, Jan 26. US President Donald Trump has proposed to end the visa lottery system in favour of reducing the backlogs of highly-skilled workers, a plan which may benefit thousands of Indian IT professionals who are currently having several ...

H-1B visa hopefuls, green card holders are feeling the wrath of 'America first' Trump


Following President Donald Trump's demands for a crackdown on H-1B visas, there has been a radical shift in how US immigration officials handle applications for the program. Every year, Uncle Sam allocates 65,000 H-1B visas for highly skilled ...

Milchan: Where's my visa? Netanyahu: Where's my cigars?


While seeking assistance to extend his working visa in the US, international movie mogul Arnon Milchan was asked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about his cigar supplies, according to the testimony of the premier's former chief of staff, Ari Harow ...

Visa Tests A New Secure Card That Verifies Your Fingerprint


Visa is exploring biometric authentication with sensors attached to debit and credit cards. Zack Palm. 18 january 2018. Visa plans to use biometric technology similar to what smartphones have, allowing people to authenticate purchases with their ...

Visa joins other major US credit card companies in getting rid of signatures


Visa has announced that starting in April, it will get rid of the requirement for signatures on credit card purchases in North America. Now that Visa is on board, all four of the major credit card companies are removing signature requirements ...

The Kushner Family's Company Is Being Investigated Over Use of a Controversial Visa Program


U.S. regulators and prosecutors have requested information from the real estate development business run by Jared Kushner's family over a program that allows wealthy foreigners to obtain visas for investing in American projects, said two people with ...

US and Turkey visa crisis ends after three-month standoff


The United States and Turkey announced Thursday an end to visa restrictions that have affected thousands of travelers, but tensions continued to fester as Turkish officials disputed a U.S. account of how the crisis was resolved. The U.S. Embassy in ...

Va. man behind $20 million H-1B visa fraud faces deportation after prison


A Virginia businessman who used shell companies to fraudulently apply for nearly a thousand foreign workers visas will spend 28 months in federal prison and then is likely to be deported to India. His wife is also being sent back and will be ...

Decision Provides Hope for International Entrepreneurs Seeking to Utilize 'Start-Up' Visa


A recent federal court decision brings good news to international entrepreneurs hoping to utilize the “start-up visa.” Officially known as the international entrepreneurial rule, the IER provides an important additional path for international ...

The Trump Administration Wants to Block H-1B Visa Spouses From Working in the US


A new Trump administration effort could prevent the spouses of highly skilled foreign workers from working legally in the U.S., according to a new statement from the Department of Homeland Security cited by CNN. The plan concerns the spouses of those ...

Now the time to get new Uber-Visa card?


Uber, Visa and Barclays recently hosted an event in Los Angeles designed to promote the rich benefits of a new credit card. I accepted an invitation to fly in, dine with execs, spend the night at the SLS hotel and learn more about it. This occurred ...

Turkey resumes visa application services for US travelers, but . . .


When we last left off in early October, Turkey had suspended visa application services for Americans. Turkish Airlines was offering refunds on Turkey-bound flights through Christmas. And U.S. citizens with plans but no visa were stuck in limbo, likely ...

Brazil Opens Electronic Visa Program


Brazil has launched an electronic visa program for American and Canadian passport holders that will be implemented in 2018, offering a dramatically less expensive and more efficient way of obtaining a travel visa to the country. In an announcement last ...

South El Monte lawyer pleads guilty to $50M EB-5 visa-fraud scheme in San Gabriel


FBI agents bringing out boxes of evidence from California Investment Immigration Fund office in San Gabriel. Feds raid San Gabriel Valley locations Wednesday, April 5, 2017 over alleged scheme giving green cards to criminals on Chinese most-wanted list ...

E-visa: Americans Won't Need Anymore to Go to a Consulate to Get a Brazil Visa


The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that its e-visa program (Programa de Visto de Visita por Meio Eletrônico) is available as of November 21. Non-Brazilian visitors can apply for a visa for Brazil at www.vfsglobal.com/brazil-evisa.

US State Department: Israel won't get visa waiver so fast


The Jerusalem Post Customer Service Center can be contacted with any questions or requests: Telephone: *2421 * Extension 4 Jerusalem Post or 03-7619056 Fax: 03-5613699 E-mail: [email protected] The center is staffed and provides answers on Sundays ...

US State Dep't: Israel won't get visa waiver so fast


US State Dep't: Israel won't get visa waiver so fast. Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu photo: Kobi Gidon, Laam. Israeli telcos ordered to cut call center waiting Israeli telcos ordered to cut call center waiting. 15 Nov, 2017 14:30. שלח תגובה במייל Ran ...

US lifts visa ban against Turkey ahead of key diplomatic meetings


Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, talks to Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, right, as they attend the inauguration ceremony of the Melike Hatun mosque in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Oct 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) more ...

Visa Launches Real-Time Payments In Europe


Visa, the payments company, announced news on Thursday (Nov. 2) of the European launch of Visa Direct, a real-time international payments platform. In a press release, Visa said Visa Direct enables person-to-person (P2P), business-to-consumer (B2C), ...

“No more Visa Lottery” – Donald Trump cancels Diversity Visa (DV) lottery


WASHINGTON – The President of the U.S Donald Trump has said his administration would put an end to the long-existing Diversity Visa (DV) lottery program. “No more visa Lottery and this year's marks the end of the program.” – Trump told BBC1's Raymond ...

What President Trump Got Wrong About the New York City Attacker


Let's start with the basics: Eight people were killed and 11 were injured on Tuesday afternoon when a driver struck several pedestrians on a bike path in lower Manhattan, an incident which is being investigated as an act of terrorism. Law enforcement ...

Trump rips Schumer for visa program that let terrorist into US


President Trump lashed out at Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer and a lottery visa program that the terrorist who plowed into pedestrians in lower Manhattan reportedly used to enter the United States. “The terrorist came into our country through what is ...

No End in Sight for US-Turkey Visa Battle


With no end in sight for the diplomatic standoff between the U.S. and Turkey, various publications are reporting that the cessation of new travel visas to Turkey is beginning to impact American travelers. The U.S. and Turkey suspended issuing new ...

OnDeck Collaborates with Ingo Money and Visa to enable real-time Loan Funding to Small Businesses


Since 2007, the Company has powered Main Street's growth through advanced lending technology and a constant dedication to Customer Service. OnDeck's ... For more information, visit usa.visa.com/aboutvisa, visacorporate.tumblr.com and @VisaNews.

Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation And Visa Help Young Girls ASPIRE To Succeed


If you believe in yourself, you're going to go far,” said Karen Strong, senior vice president of Visa's global client support and implementation. Strong was one of four panel members during the first discussion on achieving success and goal-setting ...

Turkey won't submit to US 'impositions' in visa crisis


ANKARA — Turkey will not submit to “impositions” from the United States over an on-going visa crisis and will reject any conditions it cannot meet, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. A delegation from the United States is visiting ...

Turkey suspends visa applications for US tourists, halting travel to the republic


Earlier this week, a brief note appeared on the website and Twitter account of the Turkish Embassy in Washington. The meat of the message was: “ . . . effective immediately we have suspended all visa services regarding the U.S. citizens at our ...

It Just Got a Lot Harder For Citizens of the US and Turkey to Visit Each Other


NEW YORK, USA - SEPTEMBER 21: US President Donald Trump is seen during his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (not seen), at Lotte Hotel in New York, United States on September 21, 2017. Anadolu Agency Getty Images. By Hallie ...

US and Turkey Suspend Visitor Visa Services After Diplomatic Fall Out


The U.S. Embassy in the capital of Ankara tweeted a statement from the U.S. Mission to Turkey saying that recent events have forced it to "reassess the commitment of the Government of Turkey to the security of U.S. Mission facilities and personnel.".

Cubans who want to visit the US now face more difficult and expensive hurdles


Traveling to the U.S., home to an estimated two million Cuban Americans, will now be more difficult and expensive for family members living in Cuba. With the severe reduction in staff at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cubans who want to apply for ...

Has the DV Visa Lottery been cancelled?


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Visa Announces Team Visa Roster for the Upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games


Visa (NYSE:V) today announced its global Team Visa roster for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, comprised of over 40 Olympians and Paralympians from 17 countries, including Mikaela Shiffrin (USA), Chloe Kim (USA), Mark ...

Vantiv and Visa launch new small business merchant settlement service, FastAccess Funding™


As the leading US merchant acquirer that manages more transactions than any other processor, Vantiv serves its clients with FastAccess Funding and an integrated, all-in-one payments approach that delivers a customized settlement schedule that fits any ...

Trump to stop travel from countries that refuse to help Homeland Security


President Donald Trump poses for a portrait in the Oval Office in Washington in this Friday, April 21, 2017, file photo. Trump will mark the end of his first 100 days in office with a flurry of executive orders as ... more >. Share. Tweet. Share. Pin ...

Russia calls US visa move a bid to stir up unrest in country


The US Embassy in Russia on Monday said it will halt issuing nonimmigrant visas in Moscow for eight days after the Kremlin ordered a reduction of American diplomatic staff in the country, according to a report. The US Embassy said it would resume ...

New e-system to replace UAE visa stickers on passport pages?


The smart visa system, launched on August 1, allows individuals, establishments and typing centres to obtain entry and residency permits digitally, without having to visit Customer Service centres. A number of typing centres, which have obtained a ...

A Bitcoin Visa Card? Not So Fast


A Singapore-based startup has big plans for digital currency: The firm, called TenX, intends to issue a pre-paid card that will "Take Bitcoin Into [the] Real World With Visa." Or at least that's what the headline says. According to Bloomberg, which ...

Russian lawyer was let into US without a visa by Obama administration


The news site said she was granted a “special immigration parole” by the feds to help defend a client under criminal investigation. At the time, Veselnitskaya was representing a Russian businessman, Denis Katsyv, who was being investigated by the ...

After Visa Denials, Afghan Girls Can Attend Robotics Contest in US


A group of six girls from western Afghanistan will be able to attend an international robotics competition for which they had spent months preparing after the United States this week reversed a decision to deny them entry to the country. The team, from ...

Son-in-Law, Yes. Grandparent, No. Who's Allowed in Under Trump's New Visa Criteria.


People protest the original travel ban at Philadelphia International Airport. Photo: NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images. After the Supreme Court finally handed President Trump a victory in the long legal battle over his attempt to ban people from six ...

Turkey offers 7-day transit visa to Pakistanis


Turkey is offering free of charge transit visa with seven days of stay in Turkey to Pakistani nationals travelling with Turkish Airlines to the Schengen countries, UAE, UK and Ireland. According to a statement issued by Gerry's, these visas can be ...

Visa Launches New Payment Methods For FIFA Stadiums


... the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017, to introduce a Visa NFC-enabled Alfa-Bank payment band, which is available for 1,000 Russian Ruble (approximately $18 USD) at Visa Customer Service booths throughout stadiums and reloadable using personal credit ...

Visa to Roll Out Cashless Experience at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017


Visa's innovations, however, enable its financial institution customers to offer consumers more choices: pay now with debit, pay ahead with prepaid or pay later with credit products. For more information, visit usa.visa.com/about-visa, visacorporate ...

VeriTrain será el nuevo proveedor de servicios de token de Visa


"Los usuarios digitales son, mayoritariamente, usuarios omnicanal: el 90% de ellos utiliza banca en línea, el 88% el ATM, el 73% usa banca móvil, el 73% acude todavía a una sucursal y el 53% realiza operaciones mediante el call center", explica ...

US embassies start new vetting of visa applicants


Consular officers at U.S. embassies around the world have started more intensive vetting of some visa applicants, including asking for their social media handles, in an effort to block potential terrorists and other national security threats from ...

Do you need a visa to visit Canada?


Citizens of nearly 150 countries, as well as stateless individuals, need a visa to travel to Canada. Most visitors — U.S. citizens and other visa-exempt travelers, as well as visa-holding foreign nationals — are permitted to remain in Canada for up ...

China pitch by Kushner sister renews controversy over visa program for wealthy


A much-criticized visa program that allows foreigners to win fast-track immigration in return for investing $500,000 in U.S. properties was extended in a bill signed by President Trump just one day before a sister of senior White House adviser Jared ...

Do you need a visa to visit Thailand?


Taking a trip to see Thailand's beautiful beaches or explore the frenetic, colorful city of Bangkok? For trips under 30 days, citizens of 48 countries — including the United States, Canada, and much of Europe — do not need a visa to travel as a ...

Do You Need a Visa to Visit Vietnam?


Citizens of several European states, for example, can travel as tourists to Vietnam without a visa if their stay is under 15 days; and citizens of several southeast Asian nations can enter and remain in Vietnam without a visa for stays of up to 30 days ...

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