Editing Óscar Arias (section)

==Post-presidency==
In 2025, Arias's US visa was revoked by the [[US State Department]], which Arias blamed for his seeking better relations with China when he was president.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75dl7rdxexo|title=US cancels visa of Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias |publisher=BBC|date=2 April 2025}}</ref> In a Facebook post published in February, he remarked that [[Donald Trump]] acted like "a Roman emperor, dictating to the rest of the world what to do".

At a news conference in [[San José, Costa Rica|San José]], Arias stated that he had received a brief email from the U.S. government. The message referenced Section 221(i) of the [[Immigration and Nationality Act]], which grants the secretary of state and consular officers the authority to revoke visas at their discretion.<ref>{{cite news |last=Zhuang |first=Yan |title=Nobel Laureate and Ex-Leader of Costa Rica Says U.S. Revoked His Visa |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/us/politics/oscar-arias-sanchez-visa-trump.html |website=The New York Times |date=2025-04-02 |access-date=2025-04-04}}</ref>