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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-09/australians-with-us-e3-working-visas-hit-with-new-rules/105752706
>The US State Department has issued a directive that means Australians on working visas in the US, including the Australia-specific E-3 visa, may have to travel back to Australia to renew them every two years.
>The directive, which took immediate effect after it was issued on the weekend, warns visa-holders against the common practice of travelling to countries closer to the US to renew their visas.
AIIEEEE! Having to travel back to the mother cunttree? Doesn't the flight cost six gorillion to and from Australia?
>Josh Pugh, who runs the popular America Josh website and online community for Australians in the US, said some Australians who had flown to London for visa interviews on Monday, local time, had already been caught out.
>"We've heard directly from about a dozen people already who have said that they got to the interview like they had many times before, they went through the process [and then were] told that their visa had been refused because of this new directive," he said.
>"It's incredibly difficult for them, because now they are without status, or without a visa, to re-enter the States in some cases."
How could you do this to "American Josh" (actually an Australian)?!?!?! He's a "digital strategist", an important part of the economy!