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US freezes all visa processing for 75 countries, including Somalia, Russia, Iran
- aebtebeten 9mo agoShould I not be surprised that this news seems to have hit Fox before State's official websites? https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news.html https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news.h... https://www.state.gov/press-releases/ https://www.state.gov/press-releases/
- garbawarb 9mo agoThey cited an internal memo. I wonder if it's part of the strategy to "leak" this before an official announcement.
- bongoman42 9mo agoInteresting that Kuwait is on the list, it is literally a first world country with very high per capita income. The list seems somewhat arbitrary.
- gck1 9mo agoThe most frequent argument I've seen, even here on HN against illegal immigration in US always was "use legal ways!". I'm a citizen of one of the listed countries. It's a safe country, all white (it's quite literally a Caucasian country). I was planning on using legal immigration, which already felt like I was trying to kill a 7 headed snake. Now that route is cut as well. To me, this means US does not want me and I will not immigrate there. But that's me, I've got principles. For all the rest that simply means "use illegal ways".
- coolThingsFirst 9mo agoRemember when they said legal immigration was fine? Why are NATO members in the banned list but not India? Absurd.