The Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a US airliner had been placed on a UK watchlist and barred from entering Britain earlier this year, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said on Monday. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, Johnson confirmed 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had been placed on a watch list in May after applying for ...

A Southern California pastor has been accused by immigration authorities of helping foreigners fraudulently obtain student visas and handing out phony diplomas at a fake graduation ceremony on a campus where they never attended class. Samuel Chai Cho Oh, 65, surrendered to authorities Tuesday and faces a charge ...

India has tightened its rules for long-term tourist visas, officials said Wednesday, in a move that is causing confusion for travellers and will affect thousands of foreigners in the country. Under previous rules, tourists on five or 10-year visas were required to leave the country every 180 days. But many would simply fly to a neighbouring country such as Nepal ...

STILL WANTED: FOREIGN TALENT--AND VISAS

Even as job losses in the U.S. mount, employers have stepped up the hiring of skilled workers from abroad, according to data from the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services. The acceleration in recent weeks has put companies close to exhausting the 65,000 visas allotted each year for foreign hires under what's ...