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An L1 visa pilot scheme, targeting Canadian executives transferring to the US for their companies, is stripping them of a ‘perk’ they have enjoyed for years under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In the tiny US border town of Blaine, Washington DC, Canadian executives are no longer able to have their L1 visa processed on-the-spot.
Four members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council quit in July in protest over President Donald Trump’s, ‘zero tolerance’ US immigration policies. The Trump administration’s tough stance on illegal immigration had resulted in more than 2,000 children being separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border in recent months.
For seven or eight months it was difficult for many people who needed to apply for a Tier 2 visa from abroad.
UK Visa and Immigration made several changes to UK immigration rules that came into effect on 6 July, 2018. Several immigration categories have been affected, but headline changes to Tier 2 visa rules have undoubtedly been recognised as the most significant.
A new, UK startup visa will be launched in Spring 2019, the Home Office has announced. The government wants to make more UK visas available to foreign tech entrepreneurs, enabling them to set up businesses in Britain.
Senator John McCain US immigration reformer, five times elected to the US Senate and Vietnam war hero died on 25 August 2018 of brain cancer. He had been ill for over a year.
Donald Trump had claimed that John McCain was not a war heroPreviously Donald Trump had said at a campaign event in Iowa in June 2015 that Mr McCain was not a war hero.
"He's a war hero because he was captured," Mr Trump said. "I like people that weren't captured."