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Animals
Shohei Ohtani’s dog gets massive fake visa from US Embassy in Japan
United States Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel presented Shohei Ohtani with a replica visa for his dog Decoy during his visit to the U.S. Em...
Bryan Ke
Government
AAPI congressmembers demand Biden admin take action on visa backlog
Members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging immediate action to address t...
Michelle De Pacina
News
Vivek Ramaswamy vows to end visa program he used 29 times
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed to end the H-1B visa program, the same program he used to hire foreign employees for hi...
Carl Samson
Crime
New York cafe owner accused of sexually assaulting, harassing Asian employees
The owner of the popular Marie Eiffel Market on Shelter Island, New York, is facing a lawsuit filed by eight workers, including six women an...
Education
South Korea seeks 300,000 foreign students by 2027
South Korea plans to attract 300,000 international students by 2027, a move it hopes will boost local universities’ global competitiveness a...
Singapore
Singapore passport overtakes Japan’s as world’s most powerful
Singapore has recently dethroned Japan to claim the title of having the world’s most powerful passport, according to a new ranking. About th...
Isa Peralta
Judge grants bail to Indian, Pakistani ‘PUBG’ couple days after their arrest
A Pakistani and Indian couple who has made headlines for meeting while gaming online and were arrested for violating India’s immigrati...
Reintroduced bill aims to reunite Filipino WWII veterans with their children
Lawmakers have reintroduced a bipartisan bill to speed up the visa process for children of Filipino World War II veterans. On Tuesday, the F...
Coronavirus
China stops issuing visas for travelers from S. Korea, Japan in retaliation for COVID restrictions
Before you read: Advocates fear new COVID testing requirements for Chinese travelers will stoke anti-Asian hate US announces negative COVID ...
150-year wait to get a green card: Indian H1B visa holders hold protest in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley tech workers from India held a demonstration in front of Representative Zoe Lofgren's (D, CA-19) home in San Jose, Cali...
Ryan General
US Revokes Over 1,000 Visas From Chinese Grad Students and Researchers
The U.S. has revoked more than 1,000 visas for Chinese graduate students and research scholars after deeming them as a “high risk̶...
Trump Admin Walks Back Plan to Deport International Students Enrolled in Only Online Classes
After sparking a series of lawsuits, the Trump administration backed out of its proposed visa policy that planned to deport international st...
US Plans to Deport International Students Who Only Have Online Classes
International students enrolled at U.S. institutions that will hold classes solely online this fall are at risk of being deported, the Immig...
Trump Suspends Entry of Certain Foreign Workers Until the End of 2020
President Donald Trump suspended the entry of certain foreign workers into the U.S. on Monday, a move geared toward protecting American empl...
Controversial Firing of a Chinese Facebook Engineer Angers China
Software engineer Yi Yin was recently fired from Facebook after he accused the tech giant of mistreating foreign employees. Yin said that he...
Alvin Chan
American Man Sues Japan For Not Letting Him Live With His Japanese Husband
An American man who married a Japanese man in the U.S. sued the Japanese government this week, demanding long-term resident status foreigner...
9 Chinese Exchange Students Denied Entry to the U.S., Sent Back to China
Nine exchange students returning to Arizona State University from China were stopped and temporarily detained by Customs and Border Protecti...
Chinese Tourists No Longer Allowed to Visit Taiwan By Themselves
China has ceased issuance of individual tourist visas to Taiwan beginning Aug. 1. In a brief statement on Wednesday, the country’s Ministry ...
Food
Vegan Japanese Restaurant Owners Could Be Denied Visas If Their Sales Don’t Increase
An immigrant couple running an organic vegan restaurant in California might be forced to return to Japan if they do not meet target sales re...
Vietnamese Brothers Finally Get Visas to Save Brother’s Life After Help From Congresswomen
A pair of Vietnamese brothers can now travel to the U.S. to donate bone marrow for a third brother suffering from cancer. Originally denied ...
Vietnamese Men Denied U.S. Visas to Go Donate Bone Marrow to Dying Brother in San Jose
Two Vietnamese brothers were denied temporary U.S. visas necessary for them to donate bone marrow to their dying brother living in San Jose....
Jin Hyun
Visa Applicants May Now Need to Give 5 Years of Social Media Accounts
All visa applicants to the U.S. will now be required to hand over their social media names, email addresses and phone numbers used over the ...
Khier Casino
ICE Created A Fake University to Trick Indian Immigrant Students and Arrest Them
Emails revealed this week show how the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) set up a fictitious school called the “University of ...
U.K. Woman Slaps Indonesian Immigration Officer After She Overstayed Her Visa in Bali
A British tourist who lashed out at an immigration officer has been detained in Indonesia and is facing criminal charges, according to the D...
Asia
Trump’s Administration Limits Visas for Chinese Tech Students
Instead of being issued with automatic maximum possible duration, visas granted to Chinese citizens may soon be limited by United States con...
Chinese Immigrant Who is a US Veteran to Be Deported By ICE
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is moving forward with deporting veteran and Chinese immigrant Xilong Zhu, ignoring a directive fr...
Heather Johnson Yu
Thai Prostitute Arrested in Taiwan May Have Infected Dozens of Men with HIV
A 24-year-old Thai sex worker who visited Taiwan and saw clients during that time has tested positive for HIV. The woman, only identified as...
China Will Give Visas to Ethnic Chinese Overseas So They Can Return to the Motherland
Foreigners of Chinese descent will be able to apply for a hassle-free 5-year visa with multiple entries into China starting Thursday, Feb. 1...
Wife of Chinese NYC Construction Worker Denied Visa to Bury Her Dead Husband
The family of a 33-year-old Chinese construction worker who died in a fall last Tuesday will not be able to attend his funeral in New York a...
Vietnamese Mother Misses Her U.S. Navy Son’s Funeral After Visa is Denied TWICE
Hung Truong, the father of four-year Navy veteran Ngoc Hoan Truong, is infuriated with the United States government’s decision not to approv...
Indian Woman’s UK Visa Gets Rejected Because Her English is ‘Too Good’
A pregnant Indian woman’s wish to be reunited with her husband in Scotland was temporarily foiled after her visa application was rejec...
U.S. Stops Issuing Visas in Cambodia Because the Country Won’t Take Back Deportees
The American embassy in Phnom Penh stopped issuing certain visas on Wednesday as Cambodia fails to take back its citizens being deported fro...
Foreign-Born U.S. Military Recruits Promised Citizenship May Now Face Deportation
A thousand foreign-born recruits in the U.S. Army may face deportation as the Pentagon reportedly plans to scrap a program that previously p...
Trump Just Made Getting a U.S. Visa Even Harder With Social Media Background Checks
The United States government has approved a new requirement for revised visa applications that would allow officials to check applicants’ so...
California Father and Daughter Sentenced For Organizing Green Card Marriages For Chinese Nationals
A California woman and her father were both found guilty of running an illegal business that helps Chinese nationals obtain a green card via...
King Malleta
Why More Chinese Students in the U.S. Are Going Back to China After Graduation
Securing a work visa abroad for many Chinese graduates is difficult and could take a long time, which is why many are going back home to Chi...
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