Starting Jan. 21, the Trump administration “will pause immigrant visa processing from 75 countries whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates,” the State Department wrote in a post on X. “The freeze will remain active until the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people.”
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced that it was indefinitely freezing immigrant visa processing for nearly 40 percent of the world’s countries, further intensifying its immigration crackdown as U.S.
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