The U.S. State Department announced Wednesday it will pausissuing immigrant visas to citizens of 75 countries over concerns that they may rely on public assistance in the future.<\/p>\n
In a post on X, the U.S. government said immigrants from the list of countries “take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates.” <\/p>\n
The list, which includes U.S. allies and adversaries, alongside several top destinations for American travelers, was later posted on U.S. State Department’s website. <\/p>\n
The countries, divided by region, include: <\/p>\n
The Americas<\/strong> Europe<\/strong> Asia<\/strong> Africa<\/strong> The freeze, which is set to begin Jan. 21, does not affect tourist visas. <\/p>\n It will remain in effect “until the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people,” according to the U.S. State Department’s website. <\/p>\n The agency said it is conducting a full review of “all polices, regulations and guidance to ensure immigrants from these high-risk countries do not utilize welfare in the United States or become a public charge,” it said. <\/p>\n This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. State Department announced Wednesday it will pausissuing immigrant visas to citizens of 75 countries over concerns…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":517094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7574,32299,78,81,19446,79,18807,409,12287,83,4785,32301,27690,55762,65805,50,65806,3775,257,9159,10418,23312,11843,1439,67,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-517093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-afghanistan","9":"tag-algeria","10":"tag-breaking-news-economy","11":"tag-business-news","12":"tag-cambodia","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-guatemala","15":"tag-immigration","16":"tag-immigration-policy","17":"tag-iran","18":"tag-iraq","19":"tag-kuwait","20":"tag-laos","21":"tag-myanmar","22":"tag-nepal","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-nicaragua","25":"tag-pakistan","26":"tag-russia","27":"tag-social-issues","28":"tag-south-sudan","29":"tag-syria","30":"tag-thailand","31":"tag-u-s","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115897239478902101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
– 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<\/p>\n
– Albania
– Belarus
– Bosnia and Herzegovina
– Kosovo
– Moldova
– Montenegro
– North Macedonia<\/p>\n
– Afghanistan
– Armenia
– Azerbaijan
– Bangladesh
– Bhutan
– Cambodia
– Georgia
– Iran
– Iraq
– Jordan
– Kazakhstan
– Kuwait
– Kyrgyzstan
– Laos
– Lebanon
– Mongolia
– Myanmar
– Nepal
– Pakistan
– Russia
– Syria
– Thailand
– Uzbekistan
– Yemen<\/p>\n
– Algeria
– Cameroon
– Cape Verde
– C\u00f4te 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<\/p>\n