One lawyer whose firm represents at least 4,000 international artists a year says that visa delays have become more frequent over the last six months. One of the clients missed a performance in the U.S. earlier this month. More from KQEDnews:
and other advocacy groups, who say these questions cause visa applicants to censor their online speech out of fear. Lawyers and talent bookers say the visa application process for international artists is opaque, arbitrary and inconsistent, and discourages much-needed cultural exchange at a time of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States.
Typically, Covey says, the application for an O or P visa for visiting entertainers, athletes and scholars takes several weeks to get approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the State Department. But because it's difficult to predict whether an artist will be asked to fill out a DS-5535 form, arts presenters have been running into unexpected visa delays that set off a chain reaction of lost revenue.
Hawa Kasse Mady Diabate of Trio Da Kali missed her June 1 performance with the Kronos Quartet due to an unexpected visa delay. Arts presenters say these are becoming more common under the Trump administration's"extreme vetting" policy. "It's racism, and it's economics, and it's demographics," says Covey, adding that artists from Africa and Latin America are seen as likelier to immigrate illegally, and Middle Eastern artists are stereotyped as potential terrorists."The overlap of those Venn diagrams is enormous, and that's why it's hard to unravel this problem."
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