The United States government has expanded a sweeping pause on legal immigration applications to include those filed by people from an additional 20 countries, including Nigeria, that President Trump added to his “travel ban” proclamation this week.
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A U.S. official, who requested anonymity, discussed the internal changes that have not been formally announced with CBS News.
Trump expanded the “travel ban” proclamation to include 20 additional nations, fully barring immigrants and travellers from five new countries and partially restricting the entry of people from another 15 nations.
The U.S. official told CBS News that USCIS has expanded its suspension of immigration cases to include the new nationalities added to Mr. Trump’s earlier proclamation.
The pause will now affect nationals of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria, the new countries facing full travel bans.
It will also impact those hailing from Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
These are the last set of countries face partial restrictions under the latest proclamation.
Previously…
Previously, the suspension of immigration cases applied to nationals of Afghanistan, Burundi, Chad, Cuba, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Laos, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Turkmenistan, Yemen and Venezuela. In his latest proclamation, Mr. Trump imposed a full entry ban on citizens of Laos and Sierra Leone, which previously faced partial restrictions.
In a statement posed on social media late Thursday, USCIS Director Joseph Edlow appeared to reference the expansion.
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