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2025 Visa Trends: Whims and Caprices Rule

Posted on July 12, 2025

The US used to be a welcoming country, opening its arms to tourists, business visitors, investors, executives, managers, creatives, and professionals such as scientists, mathematicians, and IT and business specialists. Not anymore. The mantra of this Administration? “A visa is a privilege, not a right.” But while each country of course has the right to determine who may enter, each country also has laws to define who may enter and who may not. Those immigration laws are to be complied with, not ignored, twisted, and run over by the whims and caprices of an Administration Run Amok.

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P is a professional in her home country with a US visa history dating back many years. In early 2019, she received a new US visa and traveled to the US to visit family. Later, during the pandemic, she gave birth in the US at the end of 2020, paying the hospital bills and leaving within a couple of months. But notwithstanding the black-and-white edict of the Trump Birth Tourism Rule that it would only apply to visas issued after January 2020, the consul decided to apply the rule retroactively to P. The consul entered the US “death penalty” against P: finding her permanently inadmissible under the misrepresentation provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Section 212(a)(6)(C)(i). It is not clear if the decision stemmed from discrimination, a personal agenda, or sheer ignorance, but after the preparation of a chronology of events, supporting documentation, and a request to rescind, the Department of State promptly removed the 6Ci permanent bar from P.

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