Some of the Latin American and Caribbean countries included are Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Uruguay.
SANTO DOMINGO – Effective January 21 of this year, the Trump Administration ordered the U.S. State Department to suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries. This decision is part of a comprehensive reassessment of admissibility criteria within a context of increasingly stringent immigration policies.
The measure was reportedly in response to the strict application of the "public charge" provision, which instructs consular officials to deny visas to applicants considered highly likely to depend on state benefits, according to official details from Fox News Digital.
According to the American newspaper, a significant number of the countries included are located in Africa. These include Nigeria, Morocco, Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, as well as Cameroon, Cape Verde, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Gambia, and Ivory Coast.
Europe
The memorandum also includes Eastern European nations, including Russia, Belarus, Albania, Bosnia, Moldova, Macedonia, Montenegro, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kosovo.
Asia and the Middle East
The official statement also includes the suspension of several countries in Asia and the Middle East. These include Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Nepal, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Mongolia, Lebanon, Jordan, and Yemen. The document, cited by Fox News Digital, indicates that these countries were included based on criteria related to security, public health, and the economic capacity of the applicants.
Latin America and the Caribbean
It also includes Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua and Uruguay, as well as Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Source: Fox News Digital
