According to the report released on Friday, which quoted anonymous officials, the US government’s draft list included 43 nations, broken down into three different travel restrictions.
A full visa suspension would be set for the first ten nations, which includes North Korea, Iran, Syria, Iran, and Syria.
In the second group, five nations, including Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, and South Sudan, would be subject to partial suspensions that would impact both student and tourist visas as well as other immigrant visas, with some exceptions.
If their governments “do not make efforts to address deficiencies within 60 days,” the draft memo stated that a total of 26 countries, including Belarus, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan, would be taken into account for a partial suspension of US visa issuance.
Under the condition of anonymity, a US official who spoke to Reuters reported to the Reuters news agency that Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, could be one of the list’s members.
On January 20, Trump issued an executive order mandating increased security screening for foreigners entering the country to identify threats to national security.
A list of nations that should be partially or completely suspended from travel by March 21 was ordered by the order, which mandated that several cabinet members submit a list of these countries by March 21.
The US president’s executive order was a part of a comprehensive immigration crackdown he launched at the start of his second term. In a speech from October 2023, he pledged to impose restrictions on residents of the Gaza Strip, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, and “anywhere else that threatens our security.”
The Supreme Court in 2018 upheld Trump’s first-term ban on travel for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, which was later refuted by the latest travel ban proposal.
Source: Aljazeera
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