Renewing a visa takes much longer, too.
The measures include mandatory, in-person interviews with a U.S. consular officer prior to receiving or renewing a visa, and background checks for those studying topics deemed to pose a security risk, which includes many areas in the physical sciences, engineering, and computer science.
The proposed rules would allow the government to label these immigrants as "public charges," which could prevent them from obtaining a green card or even renewing a visa.
In some cases, foreign-born professionals have grown weary of the struggle to get and renew a work visa in the United States and moved on to cities like London, where they say they feel more welcome.
When I was studying Chinese, one of my readers included articles on how to renew a student visa, why credit card debt is bad, and whether or not depression is a "disease of civilization".
Her application to renew an expired visa has been stuck in mysterious bureaucratic limbo since 2014.
And she has to somehow come up with the thousands of dollars it takes to renew said visa a few years later, hoping she can find a new sponsor company or stay with the same one.
There's concern for the freedom of the press in Hong Kong after the government declined to renew the visa of a veteran Financial Times' editor, dealing an alarming blow to the country's thriving journalism community.
Indonesia refused to renew the visa of an Australian journalist who has written about human rights abuses there.
In 2010, after Jamal exhausted his appeals to renew his visa, he received a notice to appear before ICE.
She said she had to fly back to Paris every three months to renew her visa, but later got a student visa and married an American lawyer whom she had been tutoring.
