The U.S. State Division introduced Wednesday it is going to pause issuing immigrant visas to residents of 75 nations over issues that they might depend on public help sooner or later.
In a publish on X, the U.S. authorities mentioned immigrants from the checklist of nations “take welfare from the American individuals at unacceptable charges.”
The checklist, which incorporates U.S. allies and adversaries, alongside a number of prime locations for American vacationers, was later posted on U.S. State Division’s web site.
The nations, divided by area, embrace:
The Americas
– Antigua and Barbuda
– Bahamas
– Barbados
– Belize
– Brazil
– Colombia
– Cuba
– Dominica
– Grenada
– Guatemala
– Haiti
– Jamaica
– Nicaragua
– St. Kitts and Nevis
– St. Lucia
– St. Vincent and the Grenadines
– Uruguay
Europe
– Albania
– Belarus
– Bosnia and Herzegovina
– Kosovo
– Moldova
– Montenegro
– North Macedonia
Asia-Pacific
– Afghanistan
– Armenia
– Azerbaijan
– Bangladesh
– Bhutan
– Cambodia
– Fiji
– Georgia
– Iran
– Iraq
– Jordan
– Kazakhstan
– Kuwait
– Kyrgyzstan
– Laos
– Lebanon
– Mongolia
– Myanmar
– Nepal
– Pakistan
– Russia
– Syria
– Thailand
– Uzbekistan
– Yemen
Africa
– Algeria
– Cameroon
– Cape Verde
– Côte d’Ivoire
– Democratic Republic of the Congo
– Egypt
– Eritrea
– Ethiopia
– Ghana
– Guinea
– Liberia
– Libya
– Morocco
– Nigeria
– Republic of the Congo
– Rwanda
– Senegal
– Sierra Leone
– Somalia
– South Sudan
– Sudan
– Tanzania
– The Gambia
– Togo
– Tunisia
– Uganda
The freeze, which is about to start Jan. 21, doesn’t have an effect on vacationer visas.
It’s going to stay in impact “till the U.S. can be certain that new immigrants is not going to extract wealth from the American individuals,” in response to the U.S. State Division’s web site.
The company mentioned it’s conducting a full overview of “all polices, laws and steering to make sure immigrants from these high-risk nations don’t make the most of welfare in the USA or change into a public cost.”
The coverage doesn’t have an effect on present immigration visas. Nevertheless, the U.S. authorities has beforehand signaled it is reviewing immigration visas granted underneath the Biden Administration.
Joseph Edlow, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers, in a publish on X in November, mentioned he is “directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of each Inexperienced Card for each alien from each nation of concern,” on the course of President Donald Trump.
He added that “the American individuals is not going to bear the price of the prior administration’s reckless resettlement insurance policies.”
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