The U.S. State Division introduced Wednesday it would pause issuing immigrant visas to residents of 75 international locations over considerations that they might depend on public help sooner or later.
In a put up on X, the U.S. authorities stated immigrants from the listing of nations “take welfare from the American folks at unacceptable charges.”
The listing, 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 international locations, divided by area, embody:
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 sure that new immigrants is not going to extract wealth from the American folks,” based on the U.S. State Division’s web site.
The company stated it’s conducting a full evaluation of “all polices, laws and steering to make sure immigrants from these high-risk international locations don’t make the most of welfare in the US or grow to be a public cost.”
The coverage doesn’t have an effect on present immigration visas. Nonetheless, the U.S. authorities has beforehand signaled it is reviewing immigration visas granted beneath the Biden Administration.
Joseph Edlow, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers, in a put up on X in November, stated he is “directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of each Inexperienced Card for each alien from each nation of concern,” on the path of President Donald Trump.
He added that “the American folks is not going to bear the price of the prior administration’s reckless resettlement insurance policies.”
