{"id":199990,"date":"2025-06-20T13:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199990\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:43:10","slug":"french-mp-authorized-to-travel-to-us-after-initial-visa-rejection-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199990\/","title":{"rendered":"French MP authorized to travel to US after initial visa rejection \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amirshahi told POLITICO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/newsletter\/brussels-playbook\/stuck-in-the-middle-east-with-eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Wednesday<\/a> that he had said on his visa application his trip was part of an effort to \u201cbuild a progressive alliance and understand life in the United States under the Trump presidency\u201d \u2014 a framing that, he said, led him to believe the initial refusal was politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Amirshahi said he had been in direct contact with French President Emmanuel Macron about the matter and received a formal note from France\u2019s foreign ministry confirming that he was traveling in his capacity as a parliamentarian.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference Thursday, Amirshahi said he was scheduled to attend several meetings with elected American officials and public figures, including New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amirshahi told POLITICO on Wednesday that he had said on his visa application his trip was part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[34,2000,299,36,38,6717,1771,1772,49,6863],"class_list":{"0":"post-199990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-emmanuel-macron","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-french-politics","13":"tag-transatlantic-relations","14":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","15":"tag-u-s-politics","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-visas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114715990808060015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}