Two days ago (12th May 2023) at 17:00 PIBA started sending out the SMS notifications about visa extensions. As usual, the messages state the updated expiry date of an existing visa, and vaguely says “there’s no need to go to…
Following our protest campaign against the imminent shutdown of the 4 biggest visa departments in Israel, and due to the exhaustion of all other protest means, the Israeli Association for International Couples is escalating the protest campaign and announces a…
As you may have seen on all our other platforms (Facebook, Instagram and our Facebook Community), last Thursday evening AIC has launched a protest campaign against the imminent shutdown of the 4 biggest visa departments in Israel. If you still…
On Saturday 11th March, on a bright sunny spring day, AIC hosted its second official event! More than 150 people, international couples, international families and quite a few international dogs :), gathered at Park HaYarkon for a one-of-its-kind, community potluck…
In the last two weeks, representatives of The Israeli Association for International Couples have been meeting with various Israeli parliament members in order to jump-start parliamentary activity in this new Knesset. In the meetings, we introduce new parliament members to…
Last week we have conducted a poll on our Facebook Community, asking our community members who recently submitted online application for partner visa, about their experience in getting a first response from PIBA. Polls such as this one are super…
As you for sure have heard, Benjamin Netanyahu notified the president on December 26th that he succeeded in forming a government. The new government was voted in at the Knesset this afternoon, December 29th. The new government, consists of 6…
We are currently working in collaboration with journalist Nesli Barda and her team, on brining the story of an international couple to her new documentary primetime TV show, “Love Bigger Than Life”. Check out this short snippet from one of…
In the last few weeks, we got a couple of reports about remarks made by PIBA clerks regarding the “validity” of the time periods in which partner visas were automatically extended – in the count towards the completion of the…
The Israeli Association for International Couples is recruiting volunteers for key management positions! We are looking for both Israelis and foreigners, preferably those who are part of the international couples community and are going through the gradual process, or completed…
This last Sunday, founder Adv. Lior Beres was invited to a closed forum arranged by Pnima – a nonprofit organization dealing with promotion of policies and solution for controversial topics in the Israeli soceity – discussing their initiative to create…
Now that we had some time to relax over the weekend, we want to thank all the participants in the opening event of our association, and summarize a historic event for the international couples community in Israel! We were happy…
