STRENGTHENING NATIONAL SECURITY THROUGH COMMON SENSE RESTRICTIONS BASED ON DATA: At this time, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation increasing and strengthening entry restrictions on nationals from international locations with demonstrated, persistent, and extreme deficiencies in screening, vetting, and information-sharing to guard the Nation from nationwide safety and public security threats.
- The Proclamation continues the total restrictions and entry limitations of nationals from the unique 12 high-risk international locations established below Proclamation 10949: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.
- It provides full restrictions and entry limitations on 5 extra international locations based mostly on current evaluation: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria.
- It additionally provides full restrictions and entry limitations on people holding Palestinian-Authority-issued journey paperwork.
- It imposes full restrictions and entry limitations on 2 international locations that have been beforehand topic to partial restrictions: Laos and Sierra Leone.
- The Proclamation continues partial restrictions of nationals from 4 of the 7 authentic high-risk international locations: Burundi, Cuba, Togo, and Venezuela.
- As a result of Turkmenistan has engaged productively with the US and demonstrated vital progress for the reason that earlier Proclamation, this new Proclamation lifts the ban on its nonimmigrant visas, whereas sustaining the suspension of entry for Turkmen nationals as immigrants.
- It provides partial restrictions and entry limitations on 15 extra international locations: Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, The Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
- The Proclamation contains exceptions for lawful everlasting residents, current visa holders, sure visa classes like athletes and diplomats, and people whose entry serves U.S. nationwide pursuits.
- The Proclamation narrows broad family-based immigrant visa carve-outs that carry demonstrated fraud dangers, whereas preserving case-by-case waivers.
SECURING OUR BORDERS AND INTERESTS: The restrictions and limitations imposed by the Proclamation are needed to forestall the entry of overseas nationals about whom the US lacks ample info to evaluate the dangers they pose, garner cooperation from overseas governments, implement our immigration legal guidelines, and advance different essential overseas coverage, nationwide safety, and counterterrorism goals.
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