Visa justice: Border rules block poorer nations from world summits
LIN TAYLOR, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how citizens with less powerful passports struggle to reach major conferences and climate talks where policy is shaped…
Battered by economic crisis, Sri Lankans seek passport to a better life
Colombo, Sri LankaReuters RMR Lenora stood in a snaking queue outside Sri Lanka’s Immigration and Emigration Department headquarters for two days last week, hoping to get a passport and, with it, a chance to leave a country wilting under an economic crisis. A garment worker, 33-year-old Lenora decided to apply for a job as a […]
Vanuatu’s citizenships-for-sale scheme keeps economy afloat
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Soaring demand for Vanuatu’s controversial passport scheme has kept the South Pacific island nation’s budget in surplus despite the COVID-19 pandemic and a damaging cyclone crippling its dominant tourism sector, budget papers show. Vanuatu late on Thursday reported a budget surplus for the first six months of 2020 of 3.8 billion vatu ($US34.16 […]