Plans for Muslim Ban 2025
On day 1 of President Trump’s Presidency. he signed an executive order to “protect U.S. citizens from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our national security, espouse hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes.”
He gave the Department of State 60 days to make their recommendations on which countries it considered posed security threats to USA, and whose nationals should be made ineligible to travel to the USA.
During his first adminstration, he had stoped visa issuance for 13 countries. This was the so called “Muslim Ban” as it primarily affected some countries whose populations were predominantly Muslim.
The 60 days the State Department have been given are almost up, and the memo which the State Department has been working on has been leaked. It is not yet the official recommendation. It has not yet been approved by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, tut THIS is what they are thinking.
And there are already 41 countries on the potential chopping block.
The State Department memo recommends banning of visas to around 41 countries.
The degree of banning has been divided into three separate groups
Red List: Countries recommended for full visa suspension.
Orange List: Countries recommended for partial suspensions
Yellow List: Countries recommended for partial suspension, if their governments do not make efforts to address deficiencies within 60 days
The countries on the Red list facing Full visa suspension are:
Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen
The countries on the Orange list facing Partial visa suspension
Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, South Sudan
The countries on the Yellow list, also facing partial suspension, IF their governments do not address deficiencies:
Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Turkmenistan, Vanuatu
The State Department memo has yet to be approved by the administration, including the US secretary of State, Marco Rubio,
it still could be amended, We shall have to wait and see.
I will be publishing soon a more detailed analysis and video, And more updates later as the situation develops.
Fred Wahl, the VisaCoach
