"The Trump administration is pausing all immigration applications such as requests for green cards for people from 19 countries banned from travel earlier this year, as part of sweeping immigration changes in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard troops. The changes were outlined in a policy memo posted Tuesday on the website of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency tasked with processing and approving all requests for immigration benefits."
"The agency said it would conduct a comprehensive review of all "approved benefit requests" for immigrants who entered the country during the Biden administration. The agency cited the shooting of two National Guard troops by a suspect who is an Afghan national as a reason for the pause and heightened scrutiny for people from those countries. One National Guard soldier was killed and another wounded in the Thanksgiving week shooting near the White House."
USCIS posted a policy memo pausing processing and approvals of immigration benefits for nationals of 19 countries designated as high-risk. The pause covers green card applications, naturalizations and a wide range of immigration-related decisions. The agency's director, Joseph Edlow, will determine when to lift the pause. The administration had previously banned travel by citizens of 12 countries and restricted access for seven others on national security grounds. The ban applied to citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, with restrictions for Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. USCIS said it will comprehensively review all "approved benefit requests" for immigrants who entered during the Biden administration. The pause follows a shooting by a suspect described as an Afghan national in which one National Guard soldier was killed and another wounded.
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