The Trump administration is pausing all immigration applications for people from 19 countries. The pause puts on hold a wide range of immigration-related decisions such as green card applications or naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries that the Trump administration has described as high-risk. Earlier this year, people from those countries were banned from U-S […]
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U.S. pauses all immigration applications from 19 countries
The Trump administration is pausing all immigration applications for people from 19 countries. The pause puts on hold a wide range of immigration-related decisions such as green card applications or naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries that the Trump administration has described as high-risk. Earlier this year, people from those countries were banned from U-S travel. This latest crackdown is part of the president’s sweeping immigration changes in the wake of last week’s shooting of two National Guard troops by an Afghan national.