US EditionDHS pauses immigration applications for an additional 20 countries
USCIS suspends immigration reviews for 20 countries amid security concerns and backlog, with exceptions for World Cup and Olympic athletes, affecting cases back to 2021.
- On Jan. 1, the Department of Homeland Security paused immigration applications from an additional 20 countries, and USCIS announced Thursday it will pause review of visas, green cards, citizenship, and asylum from those countries.
- Last month, the Trump administration expanded travel restrictions from 19 to 39 countries plus the Palestinian Authority after the arrest of an Afghan national suspect in the shooting of two National Guard troops.
- The list of affected countries includes Angola, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, and USCIS will re-review refugees admitted under the Biden administration and applications dating back to 2021, except athletes and teams for the World Cup and 2026 Olympics this year.
- The agency has already imposed an indefinite pause on asylum processing while it works through its backlog, and the memo frames the move as sharpening scrutiny to ensure national security and public safety.
- Towards the end of 2025, Department of Homeland Security began pausing and reviewing migration avenues, with limited exceptions for athletes at the World Cup and 2026 Olympics after travel restrictions expanded Jan. 1.
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DHS pauses immigration applications for an additional 20 countries
The Department of Homeland Security is pausing the immigration applications from an additional 20 countries after an expansion of travel restrictions took effect Jan. 1.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, in a memo released Thursday, said it would pause the review of all pending applications for visas, green cards, citizenship or asylum from immigrants from the additional countries. The memo also outlines plans to re-review appl…
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The Trump administration is pausing immigration applications, including visas, green cards, citizenship, and asylum, for people from 20 more nations, largely in Africa. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services made the announcement in a memo released Thursday and said it also plans to again review applications of immigrants from these countries as far back as 2021.…
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Immigration Pause Hits High-Risk Nations
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it is pausing immigration applications for more countries. It previously stopped processing Afghan immigration requests. “USCIS remains dedicated to ensuring aliens from high-risk countries of concern who have entered the United States do not pose risks to national security or public safety,” the memo, dated January 1, 2026, states. “To faithfully uphold United States immigrati…
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