After the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and its owninspector general faulted the U.S. Department of State for failingto oversee summer work and training exchanges for foreigners, theState Department plans to cut back a program it can't seem tomanage. At issue is the Exchange Visitor Program, authorized by the1961 Fulbright-Hays Act (PL 87-256) and now administered by theState Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs(ECA). It brings approximately 275,000 students, scholars,trainees, and interns to the United States annually.
there was a tweet from a junior minister and ijust looked at the french website in the uk and it says there will be an announcement so we haven t had an official announcement but everything indicates that from tomorrow, the 1ath, friday, the restrictions which were imposed a month ago on the 18th of december will be removed. those restrictions, as everyone knows, who is wanting to come to france were draconian. it meant you couldn t come for tourism and you had to declare, had to have a compelling reason to come over here, which meant you basically had to be french or domiciled in france to come across the channel and that played havoc with a lot of people s arrangements for christmas and skiing holidays. it seems that from tomorrow that requirement for a justification to come will be removed. it has already been slightly loosened a week ago. work travel became possible within certain limits. now it seems that all requirements for a justification to travel will be removed from midnight