Obtaining US visas: A plight for foreign conflict reporters

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) is publishing an analysis on the difficulties foreign journalists face attempting to obtain visas to travel to the United States, either due to visa denials based on the grounds of “terrorist activities” or because the visas remain pending indefinitely. RSF calls on the United States government to provide transparency in the visa application and appeals processes.For the past several months, RSF and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have catalogued the accounts of foreign journalists who have had issues obtaining visas to travel to the United State

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