The Biden/Harris administration announced this morning that it will ease travel restrictions to the U.S. in “early November;” no specific date has been announced yet. The new rules will allow […]
After more than a year of canceled, postponed, or reimagined performances, U.S. arts organizations, presenters, and agents have resumed programming and planning for the 2021-22 season, only to find […]
For once, we have good news! You may recall that in early 2019, the previous administration announced two deeply anti-artist visa rule changes: They cancelled the “traditional expedite,” a service that […]
We, the below-signed U.S. arts organizations, submit the following in response to the Call for Public Comment on the National Endowment for the Arts Strategic Plan FY 2022-2026: In redrafting […]
Trump-era public charge rule no longer in effect, and foreign nationals in legal status in the U.S. may now make use of certain public assistance programs, including SNAP (“food stamps”) […]
Good news! (Go figure!) Two years ago, the IRS made a new rule, the impact of which was to hugely increase the effective tax withholding on low earning and independent […]
It’s been a dizzying few months in the world of U.S. immigration. The latest whiplash-inducing event occurred last Tuesday night when a court blocked USCIS’s planned fee increases and other […]
What Artists Need to Know About the Status of the New Public Charge Rules & Unemployment Benefits/Maintenance of Visa Status 1.5 NOTE: This advisory, dated September 16, 2020, supersedes all […]
USCIS fee increases and other changes Effective October 2, USCIS is raising the filing fees for most visa petitions and applications. The fee for O petitions, which is currently $460, […]
In the U.S., the rights of freedom of speech and freedom to assemble are at the foundation of artistic expression, and at the core of our right to publicly protest […]
What Artists Need to Know About the Status of the New Public Charge Rules & Unemployment Benefits/Maintenance of Visa Status 8/19/2020 – this advisory supersedes all prior “public charge” advisories […]
The federal courts ruled that the use of public healthcare and other public benefits will not trigger the new “public charge” rules during the COVID-19 national health emergency. In his […]
In collaboration with JioSaavn, Big Room, CoveyLaw, and Folk Alliance, Tamizdat has published “The Legal Landscape of Live Streaming.” (click link to download PDF) This essential guide resulted from our […]
Last February the U.S. government implemented new rules expanding the its power to deny visas to foreign nationals who have used or whom they think are likely to become reliant […]
As the performing arts are rapidly transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic, artists and arts professionals are pivoting to new media to stay connected with audiences and with each other. But […]
In February the U.S. government implemented new rules expanding the U.S. government’s power to deny visa petitions and applications of certain foreign nationals whom they think are likely to become […]
The White House incited widespread panic Monday, April 20, when President Trump tweeted that he planned to suspend the issuing of all visas and green cards. Tuesday, April 21, however, […]
On Monday, April 20, President Trump tweeted that he intends to suspend legal immigration to the U.S. indefinitely. In typical fashion, the White House has declined to issue any details, […]
With the broad endorsement of the international performing arts community, Tamizdat and the The League of American Orchestras are sending an advisory to USCIS and Department of State, requesting assistance […]
The impact of the COVID-19 virus is having a massive impact on artist mobility. USCIS is still processing petitions, but US embassies are not processing visas. Premium Processing is suspended. […]
The impact of the COVID-19 virus is having a massive impact on artist mobility. USCIS is still processing petitions, but US embassies are not processing visas. Premium Processing is suspended. […]
With the cancellation of SXSW, artists and industry are scrambling to adjust their plans. Not surprisingly, we are hearing lots of questions about what people can and cannot do. The […]
President Trump’s 2017 Presidential Proclamations limited travel to the U.S. by nationals from seven countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, with restrictions on North Koreans and Venezuelans […]
Presumably in response to world events of the last few days, we are seeing reports of U.S. Customs And Border Protection officers subjecting Iranian nationals and individuals of Iranian descent […]
In the kind of legal whiplash that has become the norm, USCIS’s new form for filing for an artist work visa petition has been stayed by a Federal Court injunction. […]
In the recent weeks, the UK Home Office has offered assurances that under a unilateral decision (not reliant on a deal) the mobility rules governing UK-bound EU performing artists will […]
On August 14, 2019, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security published a new rule that would expand USCIS’s power to deny certain immigration benefits to foreign nationals who DHS thinks […]
Last autumn the The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) created a new rule that bars foreign artists who earn less than $10,000 per year in the U.S. from the “Central […]
The ISM, the UK’s professional body for musicians, is currently running a survey to find out more about the experiences of musicians from non-EU/EEA countries visiting the UK to perform, […]
The IRS will soon announce details regarding a much-anticipated change in the Central Withholding Agreement Program. The IRS has just released the following announcement: “The IRS Central Withholding Agreement (CWA) […]
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