FPA

Me as FPA President Editorial for FPA Newsletter.

New Visa Requirements threaten Our Members

The Foreign Press Association was born in New York at the end of the First World War, and

also stuck around for the Second. Its members have chronicled epidemics, depressions and

recessions, witnessed the birth of radio, TV - and the Internet. However now there is an

impending "Perfect Storm," putting in doubt our raison d’ être. If the foreign press are not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awwK5O5mpLU

 August 19, 2026 

RE: DHS final rule establishing a fixed time period of admission for representatives of foreign media organizations and journalists (July 17, 2026) 

Dear Members of Congress, 

We are a coalition of nonprofit journalist associations and press freedom advocacy organizations writing in opposition to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new restrictive rule ending the decades-long practice of admitting foreign correspondents for as long as their assignments last. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUcjfhJelPY