Applying for a US visa soon? Key updates every applicant must knowThe US government is tightening visa rules with stricter social media checks, a new integrity fee, and fewer interview waivers. Proposed re...
02 Sep, 2025, 03.45 PM IST
US to limit visa duration for international students, media professionals & cultural exchange visitorsThe Trump administration proposed new rules to limit the duration of visas for international students, cultural exchange visitors, and jour...
28 Aug, 2025, 12.29 PM IST
Türkiye eases work permit regulations for refugees and foreign workersTürkiye has eased work permit requirements for refugees and foreign nationals to tackle labor shortages. New regulations allow certain grou...
22 Oct, 2024, 05.10 PM IST
Notice to French journalist for violation of visa rules: India tells FranceIndia clarified that the notice issued to a Delhi-based French journalist was due to violation of visa rules, not the nature of her journal...
28 Jan, 2024, 03.17 PM IST
China, US to ease restrictions on each other's media workersLimits on media workers have fuelled tensions between the two countries for more than a year after the US limited the number of visas issue...
17 Nov, 2021, 08.49 AM IST
NRI Helpdesk: Are you eligible for the National Interest Exception?With immigration rules constantly changing with the pandemic situation, it is difficult to keep up to date with it all. For our NRI readers...
22 May, 2021, 11.10 AM IST
The current status and likely future course of various work & student visas in USTrump has promised a stricter work visa regime in a bid to create more jobs for American workers in a struggling economy. His rival Joe Bid...
01 Oct, 2020, 01.00 PM IST
Trump administration proposes fixed time limit for students', researchers', journalists' visasThe proposal scheduled to be notified in the Federal Register on Friday is not country-specific, but has been brought in view of the abuse ...
26 Sep, 2020, 11.06 AM IST
US announces new visa restrictions on China over access to Tibet; Beijing vows to retaliateBeijing has continued systematically to obstruct travel to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Tibetan areas by US diplomats and ...
08 Jul, 2020, 09.41 PM IST
China threatens 'countermeasures' against US as media war escalatesReacting to Washington's move, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a media briefing here that "this will severely affect Ch...
11 May, 2020, 09.22 PM IST
Trump administration tightens visas for Chinese reportersThe Trump administration is tightening visa guidelines for Chinese journalists in response to the treatment of U.S.journalists in China, as...
09 May, 2020, 10.52 PM IST
Foreign journalists violating Indian laws liable to be punished: MHAMcNaughton, an Irish national who won the Pulitzer Prize in May 2018, allegedly travelled to restricted and protected areas in Jammu and Ka...
28 Dec, 2018, 01.15 PM IST
Indian journalist and another scribe ordered to leave MaldivesThe two journalists, Indian national Money Sharma and British national of Indian-origin Atish Ravi Patel, were handed over to immigration a...
10 Feb, 2018, 05.05 PM IST
Google ad reignites hope for easier Indo-Pak visasThe latest advertisement by Google depicts two elderly friends who reunite for the first time after the partition of India and Pakistan.
15 Nov, 2013, 03.20 PM IST
- Details of Pak govt's secret fund payments made public
Pakistan's SC today made public a list of journalists and other persons who received payments of nearly Rs 178 mn from the secret fund of t...
22 Apr, 2013, 10.37 PM IST
- China to introduce US style visa rules for foreigners
China will introduce US style visa rules for foreigners, which included procedures like finger printing, to put in place biological identif...
27 Dec, 2011, 11.37 AM IST
- EU in contact with banks about possible rival to Visa, MasterCard
The European Commission said Wednesday that contacts had been held with banks on setting up a payments card network that could rival Visa a...
16 Apr, 2008, 08.28 PM IST