Visa streamlines management structure; president leaving, COO to get added responsibilities

August 26th, 2009 Visa names Jenkyn to strategy & development postSAN FRANCISCO — Visa Inc. on Wednesday announced the appointment of Oliver Jenkyn as the electronic payment network's global head of strategy and corporate development.

July 1st, 2009 Visa sells shares of Brazilian business under IPOSAN FRANCISCO — Visa Inc. on Wednesday said that through its international subsidiary, it has sold roughly 136.5 million shares of its Brazilian business in connection with its initial public offering.

May 7th, 2009 LONDON - Three Indian illegal immigrants have been accused of running the biggest visa scam in British history. Ringleader Jatinder Sharma, 44, whose firm provided its customers with fake degree papers, references and CVs to help them enter Britain illegally, has already pleaded guilty to a number of immigration offences.

May 7th, 2009 LONDON - Three Indian illegal immigrants have been accused of running the biggest visa scam in British history. Ringleader Jatinder Sharma, 44, whose firm provided its customers with fake degree papers, references and CVs to help them enter Britain illegally, has already pleaded guilty to a number of immigration offences.

April 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Two US senators have introduced a bill to make it tougher for American firms to employ foreign professionals under its H-1B and L1 visa programmes utilised the most by Indians and the Chinese. The bill introduced by Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin Given Thursday would require US firms looking for skilled foreign professionals to make a 'good faith' attempt to employ Americans first before seeking foreign workers.

April 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Getting a student visa to Britain will become much simpler. All you need to ensure is that you have got admission to a college there and will be able to support yourself financially during the course of the study.

March 26th, 2009 KOLKATA - An 'irrational tax structure' is crippling the art industry and the government should slash import and value-added taxes (VAT) on artworks to help the sector flourish, says an industry lobby group. 'The tax structure on artwork is too irrational in India.

March 24th, 2009 BRUSSELS - Brussels-based Europe India Chamber of Commerce has criticized the European Union's restrictive visa policy towards Indian business people and called for improvements, EuAsiaNews reported. 'This goes against the spirit of EU-India strategic partnership as due to the visa restriction it has become practically impossible for Indian business people to fulfil setting up businesses in Europe and also to conclude any business collaboration,' Sunil Prasad, secretary general of the body, said Tuesday.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The faculty members of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have threatened agitation from March 20 if the government does not soon announce a revised payscale for them, but have also assured that they will not disrupt the academic session. According to members of the faculty of these premium institutions, a general fear is looming large that their payscales may be downgraded along with those for other colleges run by the central government.

March 10th, 2009 LONDON - Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse's plans for a massive American comeback gig were shattered Sunday night after she was denied a US work visa. Mirror.co.uk reports that Winehouse was due to play at the Coachella festival, California, next month but was told her entry would be blocked because she has been charged with assaulting a fan.

March 7th, 2009 MOSCOW - A Russian-Venezuelan agreement scrapping visa requirements entered into force Friday. The agreement will allow Russians and Venezuelans to visit each others' countries for up to 90 days without having to apply for visas.

March 3rd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Bringing global management education to the doorsteps of Indian students, the Netherlands-based Wittenborg University (WU) is planning to open its learning centres in India in the next few months. While making this announcement, WU director of International projects P.D.

February 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a move that will ease processing of travel and visa documents for inbound tourists from Singapore and boost tourism and trade ties between both the countries, the Indian High Commission in Singapore has hired Quoprro Global, a subsidiary of Cox and Kings India Limited, to start visa and passport services. According to the mandate given by the Indian High Commission, Quoprro Global will accept all visa applications for India from Singapore nationals and other foreign nationals, who are residents of Singapore, as well as passport applications for Indian nationals residing in Singapore.

January 21st, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has no plans to seek a US visa after the change of guard at the White House, an official said here Thursday. Modi has not made any request for a visa to visit the US as he has no plans to go to that country in the near future, an official at the Chief Minister's Office said in a press release here Thursday.

January 13th, 2009 KOLKATA - There is a rising demand in India to learn the Chinese language, but New Delhi is hardly issuing visa to teachers from China, says Beijing's top diplomat here. 'There are no native Chinese teachers to teach the language to Indians since April 2008 despite the growing demand to learn the language,' Consul General Mao Siwei said in an interview here.