immigration

The executive order introduces new measures to curb international competition for US jobs, including highly skilled positions in research and academia.

Despite having valid visas to attend universities, more than a dozen would-be graduate students have been detained at the airport and sent back to Iran in recent months.

The fast-track Global Talent visa will have no cap on the number of researchers able to come to the UK.

The Department of Justice plans to require cheek swabs at the border, with the data then entered in a national criminal database.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the immigration program will help the nation remain a science superpower post-Brexit.

Individual researchers and science societies are finding solutions so colleagues around the globe can attend conferences, from remote presentations to relocating conferences.

The latest rejections of visa requests have scientists up in arms.

As people move to the United States from Southeast Asia, the microbes in their digestive tracts begin to Westernize, possibly explaining high rates of obesity and other metabolic issues in these immigrant populations.

Money from the NIH’s budget, among others, will be used to care for kids in federal custody.

The goal is to expedite the time it takes to bring families together, but immigration advocates say the tests raise concerns about how the government will use the data.

How a new administration in the U.S. affected scientists around the world throughout 2017

Some researchers are at risk of job loss and even deportation if Trump decides to end a program that allows undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children to obtain work permits. 

The cancer scientist and his family have been sent home, and an official claims that his detention was not triggered by the Trump travel ban.

Policies that limit researchers’ travel could restrict scientific progress and partnerships.

The judges’ decision allows exceptions that may permit scientists’ travel from the blocked countries.

The University of Rhode Island neurotoxicologist and dean came to the U.S. for college in the 1980s. 

Despite several changes in the Trump administration’s new immigration ban, scientists continue to voice concerns about the executive order.  

Music, the future of American science, and more

The 23-year-old neuroscience graduate student, born in Saudi Arabia and raised in numerous countries, came to the U.S. as a teenager to attend college.