19 décembre 2018
16 décembre 2018
Admitted Russian Agent Came to U.S. on Student Visa
By Elizabeth Redden. A Russian national who pleaded guilty Thursday to acting as a foreign agent in the U.S. entered the country in 2016 on a student visa and completed a master’s degree at American University. More...
16 décembre 2018
Proposed Rule Benefits Advanced Degree Holders Seeking H-1Bs
By Elizabeth Redden. It will likely be easier for advanced degree holders from U.S. universities to get H-1B skilled worker visas under a rule change proposed by the Trump administration. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published a proposed rule today that the agency projects will result in a 16 percent increase in the number of H-1B visa recipients who have a master’s degree or higher from a U.S. institution. More...
27 novembre 2018
Chinese researchers angry over US backtrack on visas
The United States embassy in Beijing has revoked 10-year multiple-entry visas issued to some researchers specialising in China-US relations, a further tightening of entry controls as ties between the two countries worsen, writes Wendy Wu for the South China Morning Post. More...26 novembre 2018
Choosing Between Dreams and Family
Iranian students are silently subjected to a convoluted and unfair visa process, argues Adam Weinstein. More...
5 novembre 2018
Trump administration proposes new restriction on student visas
The Trump administration plans to make a major change to student visas, according to a notice published in the Federal Register on Wednesday. Instead of student visas being valid for “duration of status” — that is, for as long as the visa holders are full-time students and meet other requirements — there would be a fixed “maximum period of authorized stay,” with options for extension that are currently unspecified. More...
31 octobre 2018
Fixed Maximum Terms for Student Visas?
By Elizabeth Redden. The Trump administration published notice on Wednesday that it intends to propose a new rule in fall 2019 establishing a maximum period of authorized stay for international students and other holders of certain nonimmigrant visas. More...
31 octobre 2018
Unity College Helps Gambian Student Denied Visa
By Elizabeth Redden. In late August Inside Higher Ed published an article about a student from Gambia who was twice denied a visa to come to the United States despite having secured financial support for her education, including a substantial scholarship to a college in New York State. More...
31 octobre 2018
A Boost for Graduates of U.S. Universities in H-1B Visa Pool?
By Elizabeth Redden. The Trump administration plans to publish a proposed rule this month that would increase the probability that holders of advanced degrees from U.S. institutions would be selected for one of 85,000 H-1B skilled worker visas available in the annual lottery, Politico reported. More...
31 octobre 2018
British Scholar Can't Travel Visa-Free Due to Sudan Fieldwork
By Elizabeth Redden. A British professor is unable to give a plenary speech at a conference in Arizona because of her academic travels to an archaeological site in Sudan in 2014. She will instead be delivering her talk at the Cultural Evolution Society’s conference, which began Monday at Arizona State University, by Skype. More...
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