It has also been made known by the Trump administration that it will temporarily stop all immigration applications, such as green card applications and naturalization of migrants of 19 countries who were previously under travel bans earlier this year. The ruling is in conjunction with a wider clamping of the current immigration policies after the recent gunfire of two National Guard personnel close to the white house, an event that involved an Afghan citizen. The attack saw the death of one soldier and the other soldier was seriously wounded.
The policy change information was provided in a memo dated Tuesday, which was published on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website. The memo has affirmed that the nation has now halted immigration benefits of people of nations classified as the high-risk group by the administration. The freeze is on the pending decisions regarding permanent residency, citizenship application and other immigration benefits. The memo says that the USCIS Director Joseph Edlow will determine the time when the pause is going to be stopped.
In June, the administration already banned the travel of citizens of 12 countries, including Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, based on the threat to national security. Seven more countries Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela were restricted to access. The ban then was only imposed on the new arrivals and not on the immigrants of these countries who were already residing in the United States.
The new USCIS directive however is much more expansive. All 19 nations will now subject immigrants into more scrutiny no matter the time of their immigration in the U.S. The agency will also undertake a thorough audit of every immigration goodwill granted to those who immigrated under the Biden administration that has been an unprecedented move of signaling stricter vetting measures.
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