WASHINGTON—The Trump administration plans to add to the number of countries covered under its travel restrictions, including Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, along with others in Africa and Asia, according to administration officials who have seen the list.

The administration plans to place visa restrictions limits on travelers from seven new countries: Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania. The countries wouldn’t all face blanket bans on travel to the U.S., but could have restrictions placed on specific types of visas, such as business or visitor visas, administration officials said.

The officials said the list isn’t final. The names of the seven countries was first reported by Politico.

The administration plans to roll out its expanded travel restrictions on Monday, marking the three-year anniversary of the initial travel ban Mr. Trump signed on his seventh day in office.

The administration has said its policy restricting travel is necessary to prevent potential acts of terrorism, as countries on the list don’t adequately vet their travelers to the U.S.

Its first order, which banned travel to the U.S. by most residents of seven majority-Muslim countries, was struck down by a federal court and withdrawn. A second iteration of the ban, issued in March 2017, was also struck down by a federal judge who said it still amounted to religious discrimination against Muslims.

A third version of the travel ban, issued in September 2017, was upheld by the Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling in June 2018 on the grounds that federal law gives the president broad authority to suspend entry to the U.S.

That current restrictions blocked travel by individuals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and North Korea and by political officials from Venezuela. The administration briefly included Chad on the ban list, but removed the country in April 2018.

Unlike the initial list, most of the new countries don’t have majority-Muslim populations. Several of them, however, have had relatively high rates of their citizens overstaying visas in the U.S., according to Department of Homeland Security data.

In the 2018 fiscal year, 24% of Eritreans on business or visitor visas overstayed their permits, along with 15% of Nigerians and 12% of people from Sudan. Those compared with a total overstay rate in the category of 1.9%.


source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-plans-to-add-seven-countries-to-travel-ban-list-11579638341?mod=hp_lead_pos4

Where are all the MAGA supporters?

Business or visitors visa banned.


Nigeria keeps retrogressing internationally under the watch of the Herdsman.

Good one, since y'all lot like the m0ron. We can as well send him to y'all, since he keep shitting all institution of checks and balances in this country.

Trump already systematically blocked Nigerians from entering USA since 2017. The rate of visa denial from that period till date calls for concern from critical minds. Now he’s trying to make it public and his true color will show more is he is re-elected.

Anyway there are lot of his foolish supporters in Naija so they should rejoice coz their lord and savior is already closing the gate against them.

MAGA for life like the sheeples say!

LegendHero:
Trump already systematically blocked Nigerians from entering USA since 2017. The rate of visa denial from that period till date calls for concern from critical minds. Now he’s trying to make it public and his true color will show more is he is re-elected.

Anyway there are lot of his foolish supporters in Naija so they should rejoice coz their lord and savior is already closing the gate against them.

MAGA for life like the sheeples say!

This is what baffles me about Nigerian Trump supporters. How can you insult and criticize Buhari and praise Trump? Like are you mentally impaired?

Ok

I am no fan of buhari in anyway but inclusion of Nigeria in the travel ban list is nothing but racism!

I will never understand why uninformed Nigerians support trump, a known and verified racist! It's even more ridiculous when you realize that Saudi arabia, the proven number one sponsor of wahabism and terrorism in the world do not have their citizens put on a travel ban list. Rather Saudi military personnels are trained in the US and their government are supplied with the best American weapons and logistics to commit genocide in Yemen. BUT Nigerian immigrants who are the most educated of any immigrant group in the US as well as relentlessly hardworking and who have been actual VICTIMS of terror get put on a travel ban list?!! Absolute madness!

Any nigerian that celebrates this as some good news because of your hate of the government should have their heads checked. If you think this travel ban will only affect northerners, think again!

And sincerely, if you are black and you are a trump fan-boy, you are a dunce!

DanjaNinja:


This is what baffles me about Nigerian Trump supporters. How can you insult and criticize Buhari and praise Trump? Like are you mentally impaired?

As in, sometimes I just weak for those guys.

Trump have always shown that he doesn’t like Africans and I don’t know why some of us are showing him blind loyalty.

The OPT that international student always use to get job after school is currently under review coz the Trump administration is trying to ban it citing some laws that it is illegal. Something that have been in existence for several years.

Now student on F-1 visa might find it hard to get job after school if the OPT ban comes to fruition. That means USA will be no more the land of sanctuary for ambitious student trying to live the American dream.

Well, his fans are many in Nigerian. MAGA for life!