This is the proposal of the Department of Homeland Security which comes as a part of a fixed time limit of visas on students, researchers, and journalists.
The Trump administration has decided to restrict the stay of the Chinese journalists in the US to just 90 days with a provision to further extend for another 90 days as per a federal notification released today.
This proposal came from the Department of Homeland Security and is a part of the fixed time limit of visas on the students, journalists and researchers.
The time limit for the foreign journalists, in general, has been restricted to 240 days by the US government and another extension for 240 days will be given and for a journalist from China, the US government would issue the visa for just 90 days and an extension for another 90 days.
The federal notification has been issued on Friday by the Trump Administration.
All the stake holders have 30 days to respond to the federal notification before the order will be enforced.
Foreign nationals traveling on a passport issued by China or Hong Kong would be issued I visa which is a category of visa for the foreign journalists which will be admitted till the activities assigned to the journalist are completed before 90 days.
However, passport holders from the Macau administration have been an exception to this rule.
The extension for Chinese journalists is for 90 days only.
Foreign journalists and their dependents must have to leave the US immediately after the expiry of their I visa or upon the denial of their extension application.
In March this year, the US government asked the Chinese media outlets to reduce the number of their staff in the country.
Four of China’s state-run media outlets, Xinhua news agency, China Global Television network, China Radio International and City daily were asked to cut down their total staff from 160 to 100.
In June, the US’ Trump administration has termed the top run Chinese media houses in the country as foreign missions terming them as outlets made for propaganda which are controlled by the communist parties of China.
In February, the US has added 5 other Chinese media outlets to this list.
These all 9 entities have met the criteria of foreign missions according to the US administration under the Foreign Missions act which means that these agencies are controlled by the foreign governments.
