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More Russians are using the domestic Mir payment system, and some banks are issuing the cards in a co-brand with China’s UnionPay. Source link

The European Commission called on EU governments on Monday to end national programmes to sell citizenship to investors, also known as golden passports schemes, and urged them to suspend the sale of visas to Russians and Belarusians.The move follows a new push from the European Parliament to shrink and regulate …

Anna Sorokin – who conned New York’s social scene under the name Anna Delvey and whose exploits as a fake heiress became the subject of the hit Netflix show Inventing Anna is being deported, two sources familiar with the situation said.Sorokin was expected to be removed from her prison in …

Most Hong Kong residents who successfully applied for a pathway to UK citizenship are university educated, married or in a relationship with children, and have no plans to return to the city, according to a British Home Office survey.The survey interviewed a random sample of 500 British National (Overseas) visa …

Amid the pandemic and geopolitical tensions with the West over the past two years, members of China’s middle class found themselves increasingly compelled to postpone plans to emigrate overseas, while others refrained from sending their children abroad to study.But as a growing number of international schools in China have announced …

The Australian government cancelled Novak Djokovic’s visa for a second time on Friday, saying the world tennis No. 1, unvaccinated for COVID-19, may pose a risk to the community. Immigration Minister Alex Hawke used discretionary powers to again cancel Djokovic’s visa, after a court quashed an earlier revocation and released …

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday his government has yet to decide on cancelling tennis superstar Novak Djokovic’s visa. Immigration Minister Alex Hawke’s earlier statement that he is pondering whether to tear up the visa “has not changed”, Morrison told a news conference in Canberra on the Covid-19 …

China has confirmed visa applications from US officials planning to visit during the Beijing Winter Olympics, which start February 4.The South China Morning Post reported last week that the US government had recently submitted three-month visa applications for 18 people to provide “security support operations” at the Games, just weeks …