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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · Aug 27
Got an analysis, perspective, or story to share? The Consular Magazine explores migration and travel, particularly where government policy, action, or diplomacy plays a role. Open to all, from students and young professionals to seasoned experts. Interested? The Center warmly welcomes your writings!
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 2d
The Consular Newsletter (October 06-12, 2025) is now available. This week, Mali’s $10,000 visa bond for U.S. travelers tests diplomatic ties, while the EU’s biometric border rules tighten entry checks across the bloc.
The Consular Newsletter (October 06-12, 2025)
This week, Mali’s $10,000 visa bond for U.S. travelers tests diplomatic ties, while the EU’s biometric border rules tighten entry checks across the bloc.
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 2d
Europe says goodbye to passport stamps. Source:
Europe Says Goodbye to Passport Stamps ✈️ | TravelPirates
The EU’s new Entry/Exit System went live yesterday—marking the end of an era for travelers. Blurb:
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 2d
Death row, detainment and dire geopolitics cause onslaught of Canadian consular cases. Source: @thealbertan.bsky.social.
Death row, detainment and dire geopolitics cause onslaught of Canadian consular cases
OTTAWA — Global Affairs Canada says deteriorating stability worldwide is causing a massive expansion in the work required to protect Canadians abroad, with the department warning Foreign Affairs Minis...
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 2d
Visiting the European Union? Expect to give your biometric data. Source: @nytimes.com.
Visiting the European Union? Expect to Give Your Biometric Data.
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 3d
Mali imposes $10,000 visa bond on U.S. citizens in response to Trump's visa policy. Source: @businessinsider.com.
Mali imposes $10,000 visa bond on U.S. citizens in response to Trump's visa policy
Mali has introduced a new visa policy requiring U
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 3d
S. Korea, Cambodia in talks to bolster consular support after torture death of student. Source:
S. Korea, Cambodia in talks to bolster consular support after torture death of student | Yonhap News Agency
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Cambodia have been in talks to strengthen consu...
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 3d
Somalia invites global bids to produce new third-generation e-passport. Source:
Somalia invites global bids to produce new third-generation e-passport
Mogadishu (HOL) — Somalia’s Immigration and Citizenship Agency (ICA) has announced the launch of an international tender to produce a new third-generation passport as part of efforts to modernize nati...
www.hiiraan.com
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 3d
Turks in Gaza will mean dead Americans. Source:
Turks in Gaza Will Mean Dead Americans
When a US Ambassador Was Killed in Benghazi, Turkey Looked Away—and Has Continued to Encourage Islamist Extremism
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 3d
Discover this 2025 article on EU visas via @tandfresearch.bsky.social.
Visas and mobility: The EU’s ‘great shutdown’ that won’t stop population flows
This article offers a critical analysis of the current literature on visa studies, particularly with regard to its methodological limitations and how they impact our understanding of worldwide migr...
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 4d
S. Korea vows swift repatriation of remains of late student after torture death in Cambodia. Source:
(LEAD) S. Korea vows swift repatriation of remains of late student after torture death in Cambodia | Yonhap News Agency
(ATTN: ADDS rescued cases in last 6 paras, additional photos) SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Yonhap) --...
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 4d
Burkina Faso refuses to take deportees as US stops issuing visas. Source:
Burkina Faso refuses to take deportees as US stops issuing visas
The West African nation's foreign minister asks if the decision led to the US suspending issuing visas.
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 4d
Man convicted over burning Koran outside London consulate was ‘using right to free speech’, appeal hears. Source: @standard.co.uk.web.brid.gy.
Man convicted over burning Koran was ‘using right to free speech’, appeal hears
Hamit Coskun is appealing against his conviction after he held the flaming religious text aloft outside the Turkish consulate in London
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 4d
Govt scraps blue number plates for Honorary Consuls' vehicles. Source:
Govt scraps blue number plates for Honorary Consuls' vehicles
The government has decided to discontinue the use of blue number plates for vehicles used by honorary consuls representing foreign governments in Nepal.
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 4d
October 12 is Spain's national day. Feel free to suggest updates: arcg.is/1TDPiy1
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 4d
Discover this 2025 article on young citizens and the unequal access to voting via @crispp.bsky.social and @tandfresearch.bsky.social.
Young citizens, mobility and the unequal access to voting
Political equality across age groups requires reasonably equal opportunities for adults of any age to engage in electoral participation. This paper sheds light on one reason why young citizens are ...
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 5d
Out-of-control taxi cab slams into pole outside Chinese consulate, injures 4. Source: @nypost.com.
Out-of-control taxi cab slams into pole outside Chinese consulate, injures 4
The carnage happened just outside the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in New York, which is located on the corner of 12th avenue and 42nd street.
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 5d
‘Clear parallels’ with Windrush as UK-born toddler denied passport. Source: @theguardian.com.
‘Clear parallels’ with Windrush as UK-born toddler denied passport
Campaigners say lessons not being learned as three-year-old’s mother is asked to prove right to free NHS treatment
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 5d
What the EU's new biometric border rules mean for non-EU travellers. Source: @france24.com.
What the EU's new biometric border rules mean for non-EU travellers
Non-EU citizens travelling to and from the Schengen area will now have to pass through a new biometric Entry/Exit System (EES), which starts operations from Sunday. The new system removes the requirem...
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 5d
Trump plows ahead with changes to the diversity visa lottery. Source: @washingtonexaminer.bsky.social.
Trump administration completing overhaul of diversity visa lottery
President Donald Trump is moving ahead to implement changes to the Diversity Immigration Visa Program that he has claimed is ripe with fraud.
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 5d
China’s Consulate General in Kota Kinabalu urges an intensified search to find two missing Chinese tourists. Source: @globaltimescn.bsky.social.
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 5d
Nvidia CEO says company will cover visa fees; Ford warns employees about RTO. Source:
NVIDIA CEO says company will cover visa fees; Ford warns employees about RTO - Ragan Communications
Plus, a report on the stigma of AI use at work.
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 5d
October 12 is Equatorial Guinea's national day. Feel free to suggest updates: arcg.is/1TDPiy1
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 5d
Discover this 2025 article on student visa holders in Australia via @journals.sagepub.com and @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social.
Problematising ‘visa determinism’: Contested and multifaceted migratory identities among student visa holders in Australia - Rafael Azeredo, Renata Casado, 2025
Sociology of migration scholarship has recently criticised the unreflective use of categorisation in migration research and practice. This article extends this ...
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 6d
October 10 is Fiji's national day. Feel free to suggest updates: arcg.is/1TDPiy1
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 6d
October 10 is Cuba's national day. Feel free to suggest updates: arcg.is/1TDPiy1