Spain bans 'golden' investor visas for non-EU citizens in a bid to curb the housing crisis.
Spain this week stopped allowing non-EU citizens who make property investments access to residency visas, closing off a pathway to Spanish citizenship.
The government said it introduced the measure to help ease Spain’s housing shortage that could reach a deficit of 600,000 homes in 2025.
Laura Chinchilla a Rodrigo Chaves: ¿Presidente? Más bien parece vocero del gobierno extranjero
Laura Chinchilla a Rodrigo Chaves: ¿Presidente? Más bien parece vocero del gobierno extranjero
San José, 03 mar (elmundo.cr) – La expresidenta de la República, Laura Chinchilla, criticó con dureza la postura del gobierno de Rodrigo Chaves ante la reciente rev [...]
#CancelaciónDeVisaDeEEUU #CostaRica #Destacada #DonaldTrump #EstadosUnidos #LauraChinchilla #RodrigoChaves #VISA
»#Visa Offers $100 Million to Get #Apple #CreditCard Business: #Visa and #AmericanExpress are trying to win the Apple card business, and #Mastercard is fighting to keep it« https://www.pymnts.com/credit-cards/2025/report-visa-offers-100-million-to-get-apple-credit-card-business/?eicker.news #tech #media
Datensicherheit vs. Bequemlichkeit? 
Meine Bank will mir unbedingt eine Debitkarte von Mastercard/Visa aufdrängen – und ich finde das gar nicht okay! 
Warum müssen meine Finanzdaten an ein US-Unternehmen gehen? 
Ich habe den Chatbot meiner Bank zur Rede gestellt… und die Diskussion ist eskaliert! 
@digitalcourage ist das normal und tue ich überreagieren?
https://youtube.com/shorts/OELJzaAZ1Jc
#Datenschutz #Bankenwahnsinn #Debitkarte #Privatsphäre #Finanzwelt #Mastercard #Visa #Datenkrake #DigitaleFreiheit #Souveränität #BankingFails #Technokratie 
EE.UU. cancela la visa al expresidente de Costa Rica Óscar Arias, anuncia el Partido Liberación Nacional
CNN Español — El Gobierno de Estados Unidos canceló la visa de Óscar Arias, expresidente de Costa Rica y Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1987, informó Miguel Guillén, secretario general del Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN).
Gobierno de Donald Trump cancela visa de Estados Unidos a expresidente Óscar Arias
La cancelación de la visa del premio Nobel de la Paz la confirmó el secretario general del Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN), Miguel Guillén.
What is the ETA? European travellers need €12 entry permit to visit the UK starting this week https://www.byteseu.com/882230/ #airport #Brexit #EuropeanUnion #flight #GreatBritain #passport #UnitedKingdom #VISA
"Remaining in the United States without a lawful #immigration status can result in fines, #detention, &/or *#deportation*. It may also make you ineligible for a future US #visa. Please note that deportation can take place at a time that *does not allow the person being deported to secure possessions or conclude affairs in the United States* [snatched off street]. Persons being deported may be sent to *countries other than their countries of origin* [#CECOT].”
"State department shares new standard for [#visa] denials based on social media posts, financial donations and memberships"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/student-visa-applications-denials
PS: "Potentially derogatory” social media posts can be used against visa applicants. So can their "attitude towards US citizens or US culture, including government institutions or founding principles." This is open viewpoint discrimination. "Support for terrorism" is the new Trumpist label for dissent and disagreement.
#Trump’s #SecretPolice Are Stalking More and More Students
We are at that point when one can consider that travelling to the #USA if you're not #WASP and wealthy, is highly dangerous. And also remaining in the US if you are only on #visa or #greencard also puts you at high risk of being simply disappeared on a pure whim, by zealote officers of a heavily #racist, #xenophobic and #authoritarian #dictatorship . The USA are not a #democracy anymore. You can't trust it.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-ice-secret-police-student-abduction/
❝Jasmine Mooney, Detained Trying to Renew #Visa:
"My name is Jasmine Mooney, and I am from #Canada. ...
I was detained on March 3. I was in detention for a total of 12 days before they released me. Everything in that place is meant to break you" ...
❞
#RümeysaÖztürk's attorneys include in their filing that her arrest & detention — without any notice — is not a necessary or usual part of #visa revocation but an experience "designed to #silence her, #punish her for her #speech, & ensure that other #students will be chilled from expressing pro-#Palestinian viewpoints."
#Immigration ofcls also detained #Palestinian activist & #Columbia graduate #MahmoudKhalil – a #GreenCard holder – earlier this month in front of his pregnant wife, Noor, a US citizen. Other students detained by immigration ofcls include #BadarSuri, an Indian postdoctoral fellow at #Georgetown University, after #DHS accused him of having ties to Hamas.
In recent wks, federal authorities have detained a handful of other #university #students & #researchers – including #GreenCard holders – who have expressed #Palestinian solidarity amid #Israel’s deadly war on #Gaza. Earlier this week, 30-yr-old #RumeysaOzturk, a Turkish doctoral student at #Tufts University, was detained by masked federal ofcls in dramatic footage that has caused widespread outrage.
Also earlier this month, #Canada citizen #JasmineMooney was detained by US authorities & was held by #ICE for 2 weeks before being released. In another case, a tourist from #Germany, 29-yr-old tattoo artist #JessicaBrösche, spent 6 weeks in #detention including 8 days in #solitary confinement after she was arrested at the Mexican border on 18 Feb.
…A GoFundMe page set up by Anderson for #KseniyaPetrova said that the researcher was hired to work for #Harvard Medical School & had entered the US on a #WorkVisa. Anderson did not specify which work #visa category Petrova was under.
…Reports of Petrova’s detention come just weeks after a French #scientist was denied entry in the US this month after US #immigration officers searched his phone & found messages critical of #Trump.
#immigration #law #Constitution #DueProcess #CivilRights #DualState
We had no idea initially what had happened to her since she was unable to send any messages or make any calls upon detention. She was moved to a facility in Vermont at first & then #Louisiana where she is now. Where she is now is a #jail that has space rented by #ICE & is kept in a room with over 80 other female detainees,” Anderson posted.
Russian #scientist from #Harvard Medical School detained by #ICE
Cora Anderson, a friend & colleague of #KseniyaPetrova, shared the news of Petrova’s detention, saying Petrova arrived at #Boston’s Logan airport on 16 Feb from a trip to France when she was stopped by US authorities who revoked her #visa & told her she was to be deported to #Russia. In response, Petrova said she feared political persecution & was then sent to a #detention facility.
#immigration #law #Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/russian-scientist-harvard-medical-school-ice-detention
US-Regierung droht ausländischen Studierenden mit Visa
Die US-Regierung will weiter gegen Studierende vorgehen, die aus ihrer Sicht für Unruhe sorgen. Hunderte Visa wurden laut US-Außenminister Rubio bereits entzogen. Aktuell sorgt die Festnahme einer türkischen Doktorandin für Aufsehen.
NOT OK
A. There is NO evidence that #RumeysaOzturk did any of the things #MarcoRubio said. She wrote an op-ed. That’s it.
B. Even if she had participated in #protests, what the #Trump admin did is NOT the process a #visa holder goes through. Normally you receive a notice & have a month. They arrested her on the street w/no notice, took her phone & belongings, threw her in the back of a van, & flew her to a detention center in a different state.
They may as well have black bagged her.
#woke 
