BySiladitya Ray,
Forbes Staff.
US immigration officials paused all immigration applications from 19 countries on the Trump administration’s travel ban list, days after President Donald Trump said he will “permanently pause migration” from “Third World Countries.”
In a notification issued on Tuesday night, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said it was placing a hold on all “benefit applications” for people from the 19 “high risk” countries “pending a comprehensive review.”
The impacted countries are the ones whose nationals are already subject to U.S. travel bans under an executive order signed by Trump in June—with the USCIS move also impacting people already in the U.S.
