Tag Archives: Visa

The Trump administration is halting immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, including Brazil, Iran, Russia and Somalia, in the latest and most far-reaching step yet to restrict legal immigration pathways to the United States. The indefinite pause, which takes effect Jan. 21, is intended to limit applicants deemed …

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said late Thursday she was suspending applications for a diversity visa program because the man suspected of killing two Brown University students and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor this week obtained a green card through the program in 2017. Noem said on social media she …

President Donald Trump has unveiled a new visa initiative dubbed the “Gold Card,” designed to grant lawful permanent residency to wealthy foreigners willing to invest $5 million in the United States. The initiative, which Trump says will launch within two weeks, aims to attract “very high-level people” while generating revenue …

Jimmy Williams The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Visa on Tuesday, accusing the world’s largest payments network of maintaining an illegal monopoly over debit payments through exclusionary agreements that stifled competition and harmed consumers. In its lawsuit, filed in New York, the DOJ claims Visa’s dominance …

Visa and Mastercard are suspending operations in Russia, the companies announced Saturday, citing the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. According to a press statement, Visa will begin working to discontinue transactions in Russia, but it will take a few days. Mastercard said it would suspend all its network services in …