A U.S. judge on Friday struck down, opens new tab a Trump administration policy suspending the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries, saying that the policy exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statutory authority, Reuters reports.
The State Department’s suspension that also took effect in January impacted applicants from Latin American countries including Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay; Balkan nations such as Bosnia and Albania; South Asian countries Pakistan and Bangladesh; and those from many nations in Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean,
As well as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Iran, Iraq,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Lebanon, Moldova, Russia, Rwanda, Syria, Uzbekistan etc.
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