Trump administration to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 countries

US State Department says frost volition impact citizens of Somalia, Haiti, Iran and Eritrea, among different countries.

The United States says it volition suspend migrant visa processing for 75 countries astir the world, arsenic US President Donald Trump’s medication continues its wide-reaching crackdown connected immigration.

The Department of State said connected Wednesday that visa processing would beryllium paused for countries “whose migrants instrumentality payment from the American radical astatine unacceptable rates”.

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“The frost volition stay progressive until the US tin guarantee that caller immigrants volition not extract wealthiness from the American people,” it said, adding that the measurement would impact “dozens of countries”, including Somalia, Haiti, Iran and Eritrea.

Trump has pursued a hardline, anti-immigration docket since helium returned to bureau successful January 2025, promising to transportation retired the largest deportation cognition successful US history.

Over the past year, helium has announced curbs to respective US visa programmes and drastically slashed the fig of planned refugee admissions into the US.

His medication has besides deployed heavy equipped migration officers to large US cities to detain and deport radical accused of being successful the state illegally.

The State Department said earlier this week that it has revoked more than 100,000 visas since Trump’s instrumentality to the White House, a one-year record.

The Department of Homeland Security past period said the Trump medication has deported much than 605,000 people, portion 2.5 cardinal others near the US connected their own.

The State Department did not instantly merchandise a afloat database of the countries that volition beryllium subjected to the frost connected migrant visas connected Wednesday.

The AFP quality agency, citing an unnamed US official, said Brazil, Egypt, Thailand, Nigeria, Iraq and Yemen would beryllium among those affected.

Meanwhile, a State Department spokesperson said the frost connected migrant visa processing would statesman connected January 21.

The determination volition not use to applicants seeking non-immigrant, oregon impermanent tourer oregon business, visas.

David Bier, the manager of migration studies astatine the Cato Institute, said the Trump medication “has proven itself to person the astir anti-legal migration docket successful American history”.

“This enactment volition prohibition astir fractional of each ineligible immigrants to the United States, turning distant astir 315,000 ineligible immigrants implicit the adjacent twelvemonth alone,” Bier said successful a statement.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a elder chap astatine the American Immigration Council, said Wednesday’s announcement, erstwhile combined with previously announced US question bans, means the Trump medication “has present banned oregon suspended migrant visas for 90 antithetic countries”.

Seventy percent of the targeted countries were successful Africa, Reichlin-Melnick added.