The Trump administration is preparing to shutter all international offices of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a move that could slow the processing of family visa applications, foreign adoptions and citizenship petitions from members of the military stationed abroad.
Although the Alien Tort Statute was originally intended to prevent diplomatic friction between the United States and other countries, its application to foreign government officials and foreign corporations has caused significant diplomatic tensions for the U.S. government.
But there has to be an American law principle calling for such application of foreign law.
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§ 767.15 Application to foreign sunken military craft and U.S. sunken military craft not under the jurisdiction of the Navy.
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Asked whether Yanukovych or his entourage would be blocked from receiving visas to the country if they were to make such an application, the foreign ministry spokesman would only say that "Switzerland is following very closely the situation in Ukraine".
It is variously called a "transactions tax," a "financial transactions tax," a "security transaction excise tax" or a Tobin tax (after the Nobel Prize-winning economist James Tobin, who famously argued for its application to foreign exchange purchases in the late 1970s).
One would undercut the range of new derivatives rules under Dodd-Frank — on transparency, capital and business standards — by delaying and weakening their application to foreign branches of American banks.
