Immigration news

According to a NAFSA Member Interest Group that focuses on China, thousands of Chinese students are to set to miss out on travelling to the US because of visa processing delays. Now, a petition has been launched by the group to raise awareness of what it describes as the ‘Chinese F1 Student Visa Crisis for 2021 – 2022 School Year’.

 

The petition claims that US F1 visa services in the Communist country have been closed for over 13 months, while hundreds of thousands of F1 visa applications already face delays. 

A legal bid to extend the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) has been blocked by the high court. Judges dismissed claims made by campaigners that EU residents living in the UK who fail to apply to remain in the country before the 30 June deadline could face ‘devastating consequences’, similar to those suffered by the Windrush generation.

 

Triggered by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), the legal bid urged the Home Office to extend the EUSS deadline to ensure that those who miss the cut-off do not become undocumented and liable to detention and deportation.

Anti-immigrant group, The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), has objected to a series of Biden administration rule reversals affecting the H1B visa route. In comments submitted to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FAIR opposed the Biden administration’s decision to revert to a lottery system for allocating H1B visas.

 

The UK government has published an official statement of changes to UK immigration rules. The majority of changes have been made to the UK Work Visa and Study Visa routes and include:

 

The opening of the new graduate route on 1 July, 2021

The expansion of the Shortage Occupation List (SOL)

The streamlining of Global Talent Visa access for winners of specific awards

The legality of Trump’s controversial US immigration public charge rule will not be reviewed by the Supreme Court it has emerged. Last month, Workpermit.com revealed that the Supreme Court was set to review the rule that blocks thousands of immigrants from applying for legal permanent residency in the US if they rely on state benefits.

 

US President Joe Biden has been blasted for seemingly ‘locking the door’ on thousands of US visa applicants who were denied US entry under the Trump-era Muslim ban. Biden partially rescinded the order recently and invited those previously turned away to reapply. However, by rescinding the ban, thousands selected to receive diversity visas were excluded.