Us travel ban
Biden to review COVID travel ban 'week to week'
Asked how long travel restrictions that took effect Monday on South Africa and seven other southern African countries would remain in place, Biden said it 'kind...
Speaking at a joint news conference in Washington with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Onyeama said Nigeria was ‘blindsided’ by the US decision on Friday to add it and five other nations to an expanded version of the US visa ban.
These are some of the families waiting to see how they will be affected by President Donald Trump’s expansion of the US travel ban.
While he gave no details, a source familiar with the proposal said the tentative list included seven nations - Nigeria, Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Sudan and Tanzania.
Shaima Swileh wore dark glasses as she walked into the arrivals terminal at San Francisco airport Wednesday night. A group of supporters carrying placards greeted her.
The judge's restraining order remains in effect until the court decides on the case.
Under the proclamation, Trump said only people who enter the US at official checkpoints - as opposed to sneaking across the border - can apply for asylum.
The 5-4 ruling, with the court’s five conservatives in the majority, ends a fierce fight in the courts over whether the policy represented an unlawful Muslim ban.
About 20 people in the group were able to reach the final fence at the busy crossing, where they were watched by armed US border guards who did not immediately open the gate.
Trump’s policy, announced in September, blocks entry into the United States of most people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
With Chad taken off the list, seven countries — Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, North Korea and Venezuela — are still subject to the travel restrictions.
Since the ban took effect, the State Department told Reuters more than 375 waivers have been approved, but declined to say for which countries and out of how many applications.
It was not immediately clear if the marshals would travel solely on US-owned airlines or also on Mexican carriers.
This week the US Supreme Court allowed the ban to take full effect while litigation over its ultimate validity continues.
As president, Donald Trump has issued executive orders banning entry to some citizens of several Muslim-majority countries.
The Trump administration will temporarily delay processing of most refugees from 11 countries identified as high-risk.
Last week, the US mission employee in Istanbul was arrested on charges of links to a cleric blamed for last year’s failed coup.
Security analysts expressed surprise when Chad was named by the US last week alongside North Korea and Venezuela as part of an eight-country travel ban.
In 2015, among 778,781 physicians practicing in the US, 164,111, or 21 percent, were foreign medical graduates, the analysis found.