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Catherine Doyle and Brendan Hughes BBC News NI Getty Images DJ Próvai from Kneecap performing onstage during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on 11 April in California Sharon Osbourne has called for a west Belfast rap group’s US work visas to be revoked. Last weekend, Kneecap performed at Coachella, an annual music […]
CNN — For hundreds of thousands of people every year who dream of studying or researching in the United States, a student visa is the golden ticket. Now, for hundreds of people already at US colleges and universities, it is turning into . . .
Watch: Moment Tufts University student is arrested by masked immigration agents The Trump administration has revoked visas of hundreds of international students and detained roughly a dozen others on college campuses across the US, often without any warning or recourse for appeals. Videos of some of the arrests, showing plain-clothes officers handcuff and arrest students […]
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that the US is immediately revoking visas issued to all South Sudanese passport holders due to the African nation refusing to accept its citizens who have been removed from the US. Rubio, in a statement on Saturday, added that the US will also block any arriving citizens […]
The decision comes as political tensions mount in South Sudan, causing fears of a renewed civil war. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Washington is revoking all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders, accusing the African nation’s government of not accepting the repatriation of its nationals and “taking advantage of the United States”. “Every […]
Washington is revoking all visas for South Sudanese passport holders and blocking new arrivals, secretary of state Marco Rubio said on Saturday, complaining the African nation is not accepting its nationals expelled from the US. The state department “is taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and prevent further issuance […]
CNN — What was supposed to be a joyous time for Georgia barber Rodney Taylor after his recent engagement turned into a nightmare when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up to the couple’s doorstep and arrested him – threatening to deport him to Liberia, a country he left when he was a toddler.
The United States has ordered consular offices to significantly expand their screening processes for student visa applicants, including through comprehensive social media investigations, to exclude people they deem to support terrorism. Coming after several high-profile visa revocations and targeted arrests over pro-Palestinian campus activism, a state department cable from 25 March, obtained by the Guardian, […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday the State Department has revoked 300 or more student visas, as the White House increasingly targets foreign-born students whose main transgression seems to be activism. Rubio warned that the administration was looking out for “these lunatics.” Around the country, scholars have been picked up, in some cases by […]
The US state department is undertaking a widespread visa-review process, revoking hundreds of visas and placing hundreds more under scrutiny, targeting mostly foreign nationals engaged in pro-Palestine activism, according to official statements. The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, confirmed the scale of the crackdown, announcing that he has canceled visas for more than 300 people […]