An award-winning Australian comedian has cancelled a planned trip to the US after receiving legal advice that she could be stopped at the border due to her previous jokes about the Trump administration.
Alice Fraser, who has appeared on Australia’s ABC and the BBC and toured internationally, was due to head to New York in the first week of May to promote her recently published book.
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She planned to apply for an O-1B visa, which permits comedians to live and work in the US if they demonstrate “extraordinary ability” in the arts. But after widespread reports of people being denied entry to the US and travellers being detained, Fraser sought a...
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