Mahvash Siddiqui

Mahvash Siddiqui is a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. A veteran career U.S. Foreign Service Officer with over two decades of government experience in diplomacy, national security, and strategic policy, she has served in senior diplomatic leadership roles, including acting consul general in Germany, selected as chargé d'affaires (acting ambassador) at the U.S. embassy in Tonga — as well as consular and national security postings in India, the UK, Iraq, Qatar, the UAE, and Washington, D.C. Her work focuses on immigration reform, nonimmigrant visa oversight, and protecting the economic security of American workers.