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In US ally Thailand, feelings of betrayal after Trump’s visa freeze | Migration News
Bangkok, Thailand – For Thai national Khaochat Mankong, 2026 was meant to be the biggest year of her life. After filing the necessary paperwork with the United States embassy in Bangkok, Khaochat, 27, was poised to start a new life with her American husband in California. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list Last […]
US to suspend visa processing for 75 countries starting next week
The State Department is freezing immigrant visa processing for 75 countries in an effort to clamp down on applicants it deems likely to become a public charge. The directive instructs embassies and consulates to halt decisions beginning Jan. 21 while the department reassesses its vetting procedures under existing immigration law, according to an internal memo […]
‘Undermines free speech’: Labour MP hits back at US government over visa ban on UK campaigners | Elon Musk
A senior Labour MP has accused the Trump administration of undermining free speech after Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, announced sanctions against two British anti-disinformation campaigners. Chi Onwurah, the chair of parliament’s technology select committee, criticised the US government hours after it announced “visa-related” sanctions against five Europeans, including Imran Ahmed and Clare […]
Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa | Donald Trump News
The United States has revoked the visa of Nigerian author and playwright Wole Soyinka, who became the first African author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Speaking at Kongi’s Harvest Gallery in Lagos on Tuesday, Soyinka read aloud from a notice he recently received from the local US consulate, asking him to […]