Us Visa Waivers

The US State Department granted a visa to a man in Iran hoping to donate bone marrow to his US citizen brother with blood cancer, obtaining a rare waiver to President Donald Trump's travel ban, the family's lawyer said on Thursday.

The Trump administration put new requirements in place on Friday for the 38 countries participating in the US Visa Waiver Program, including that they use US counterterrorism data to screen travelers, officials said.

In a bid to keep ISIS supporters out, the US has tightened its visa waiver programme for nationals of certain countries, making it harder for them to enter America if they had dual citizenship of Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Syria or visited one of them in the last five years.

The United States on Thursday began implementing restrictions to its Visa Waiver Program under a law passed after last year's Paris attacks that makes it harder for citizens of some countries to visit.

Iran said on Sunday new US visa regulations for visitors from 38 mainly European countries but including Iran flies in the face of Tehran's landmark nuclear deal with the West.

Diplomats from the 28-member European Union on Monday warned they could respond in kind if the United States makes good on plans to end visa-free entry for some EU nationals.

In a rare slip, US President Barack Obama today wrongly said that Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani woman accused of carrying out the grisly California massacre along with her husband, arrived in the US under a visa waiver programme, forcing the White House to issue a correction.

The White House announced changes to the US visa waiver programme on Monday so that security officials can more closely screen travellers from 38 countries allowed to enter the United States without obtaining visas before they travel.

US Senator Rand Paul, a Republican presidential hopeful, called for a halt on Wednesday to the visa waiver program for travelers from countries including France in the wake of the Paris attacks.

Islamist radicals are at war with the US and the Obama Administration has refused to recognize the "enemy", America's first-ever Hindu lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard has said.

US Congress approved legislation on Wednesday deepening US-Israeli cooperation after softening a push to grant Israelis visa-free travel rights to the United States even as the Jewish state persists in blocking some Arab and Muslim Americans from its territory.

The new programme will make it easier for Indian citizens to come to the US for various purposes.

In what may come as good news to American visa applicants, the United States today announced that Indians who are renewing their visas, valid or expired, within four years, are likely to get waiver for a personal interview.

The US State Department granted a visa to a man in Iran hoping to donate bone marrow to his US citizen brother with blood cancer, obtaining a rare waiver to President Donald Trump's travel ban, the family's lawyer said on Thursday.

The Trump administration put new requirements in place on Friday for the 38 countries participating in the US Visa Waiver Program, including that they use US counterterrorism data to screen travelers, officials said.

In a bid to keep ISIS supporters out, the US has tightened its visa waiver programme for nationals of certain countries, making it harder for them to enter America if they had dual citizenship of Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Syria or visited one of them in the last five years.

The United States on Thursday began implementing restrictions to its Visa Waiver Program under a law passed after last year's Paris attacks that makes it harder for citizens of some countries to visit.

Iran said on Sunday new US visa regulations for visitors from 38 mainly European countries but including Iran flies in the face of Tehran's landmark nuclear deal with the West.

Diplomats from the 28-member European Union on Monday warned they could respond in kind if the United States makes good on plans to end visa-free entry for some EU nationals.

In a rare slip, US President Barack Obama today wrongly said that Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani woman accused of carrying out the grisly California massacre along with her husband, arrived in the US under a visa waiver programme, forcing the White House to issue a correction.

The White House announced changes to the US visa waiver programme on Monday so that security officials can more closely screen travellers from 38 countries allowed to enter the United States without obtaining visas before they travel.

US Senator Rand Paul, a Republican presidential hopeful, called for a halt on Wednesday to the visa waiver program for travelers from countries including France in the wake of the Paris attacks.

Islamist radicals are at war with the US and the Obama Administration has refused to recognize the "enemy", America's first-ever Hindu lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard has said.

US Congress approved legislation on Wednesday deepening US-Israeli cooperation after softening a push to grant Israelis visa-free travel rights to the United States even as the Jewish state persists in blocking some Arab and Muslim Americans from its territory.

The new programme will make it easier for Indian citizens to come to the US for various purposes.

In what may come as good news to American visa applicants, the United States today announced that Indians who are renewing their visas, valid or expired, within four years, are likely to get waiver for a personal interview.