{"id":53743,"date":"2016-01-04T12:57:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T17:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/?p=53743"},"modified":"2016-01-04T12:57:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T17:57:37","slug":"us-canada-tighten-visa-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2016\/01\/04\/us-canada-tighten-visa-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Canada tighten visa requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">N &#8211; News<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"> <!--more-->Citizens of 38 countries, including most of Europe, currently do not need a visa to visit the United States for stays up to 90 days. It&#8217;s called the Visa Waiver Program. But soon anyone who is a dual citizen of countries including Iraq, Syria, Iran and Sudan or anyone who has visited those countries since early 2011 will require a visa when travelling to the United States. Legislators say it is intended to stop potential terrorists from entering the US. Critics say it could block legitimate travel. It&#8217;s not clear when the new rules will go into effect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Many travelers heading to Canada will soon need to enroll in the Electronic Travel Authorization program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Starting March 15th, foreign nationals entering Canada from a visa exempt country will need to be enrolled in the program, which mirrors a similar U.S. system. Later in the year, citizens of Brazil, Bulgaria, Mexico and Romania will be eligible for the program and will no longer need a visa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Some U.S. workers will get a raise for 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Fourteen states begin the new year with increased minimum wages. Some states now have a minimum wage over 10 dollars an hour, but many are sticking with the federal minimum wage of 7.25 an hour.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N &#8211; News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}