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Trump administration considers adding 36 countries to travel ban list

By Adam Taylor
The United States is considering restricting entry to citizens of an additional 36 countries in what would be a significant expansion of the travel ban announced by the Trump administration early this month, according to a State Department memo reviewed by The Washington Post.

Among the new list of countries that could face visa bans or other restrictions are 25 African nations, including significant U.S. partners such as Egypt and Djibouti, plus countries in the Caribbean, Central Asia and several Pacific Island nations.

A State Department spokesperson said the agency would not comment on internal deliberations or communications. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Such a move would mark another escalation in the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown on immigration.

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The memo, which was signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and sent Saturday to U.S. diplomats who work with the countries, said the governments of listed nations were being given 60 days to meet new benchmarks and requirements established by the State Department. It set a deadline of 8 a.m. Wednesday for them to provide an initial action plan for meeting the requirements.

The memo identified varied benchmarks that, in the administration’s estimation, these countries were failing to meet. Some countries had “no competent or cooperative central government authority to produce reliable identity documents or other civil documents,” or they suffered from “widespread government fraud.” Others had large numbers of citizens who overstayed their visas in the United States, the memo said.

Other reasons included the availability of citizenship by monetary investment without a requirement of residency and claims of “antisemitic and anti-American activity in the United States” by people from those countries. The memo also stated that if a country was willing to accept third-country nationals who were removed from the United States or enter a “safe third country” agreement, it could mitigate other concerns.

It was not immediately clear when the proposed travel restrictions would be enforced if the demands were not met.

The countries facing scrutiny in the memo: Angola; Antigua and Barbuda; Benin; Bhutan; Burkina Faso; Cabo Verde; Cambodia; Cameroon; Democratic Republic of Congo; Djibouti; Dominica; Ethiopia; Egypt; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Ivory Coast; Kyrgyzstan; Liberia; Malawi; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Sao Tome and Principe; Senegal; South Sudan; Syria; Tanzania; Tonga; Tuvalu; Uganda; Vanuatu; Zambia; and Zimbabwe.

The list represents a significant expansion of a presidential proclamation issued June 4, when the United States fully restricted the entry of individuals from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The United States also had partially restricted the entry of travelers from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela under that order.

Democrats and other critics of the Trump administration have described its efforts to issue blanket travel bans on selected nations as xenophobic and bigoted, pointing to President Donald Trump’s efforts to block travel from Muslim-majority nations in his first term and the high number of African and Caribbean nations targeted during this term.

Early in his first term, Trump attempted to restrict travel from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Libya. The initial version of the ban caused confusion and chaos at airports. It faced numerous legal challenges until the Supreme Court upheld the third version of it in June 2018.

While the travel ban was rescinded under the Biden administration, Trump repeatedly pledged to reinstate it on the campaign trail, stating it would be “bigger than before.”

On Inauguration Day, the White House issued an executive order calling on U.S. agencies, including the State Department, to look for “countries throughout the world for which vetting and screening information is so deficient as to warrant a partial or full suspension on the admission of nationals from those countries.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/14/trump-travel-ban-expansion/

All black countries except maybe Bhutan, Cambodia, and Kyrgyzstan. Trump doing what he does best. He would go through with it..

Warning start repairing your country and your continent.

slimfit1:
Warning start repairing your country and your continent.

Correct 100%. If like 30 similar to Donald Trump become leaders of several Western nations, that is when your advice will hit home hard for so many Africans.

And today useless govt decided to condemn the attack on Iran

This will be a very very good news if its true

SarkinYarki:
And today useless govt decided to condemn the attack on Iran

exactly the fall out for condemning Israel attack on Iran.

He should target our political office holders both past and present including their families and cronies

United States is considering restricting entry to citizens of an additional 36 countries in what would be a significant expansion of the travel ban announced by the Trump administration early this month, according to a State Department memo reviewed by The Washington

COMRADES, this is a welcome development, when we said that this MU-MU tickets won't stand some crads said otherwise. The heat don start now

President Trump please don't do this we beg you in the mighty name of Jesus

SarkinYarki:
And today useless govt decided to condemn the attack on Iran

Shey nah Nigeria government cause that one??

Uncle Bola no day go US I for say make Trump impose the ban

But Baba da go France rather


The fear of FBI and CIA let Baba travel to US even with his Diplomatic identity

Less than 4 years from now, he will leave office and the next president will reverse most of his stupid policies

The brain drain should end

Thank you Trump

This is long awaited

Don't say, do, or THREATEN to do anything that's detrimental to the security, success, or reputation of Nairaland

Fix your country. If you support incompetence, the result of that incompetence you supported will be waiting to meet you in front in the near future

Mumu Trump Nigerians are actually doing the USA a big favour with the way our medical personnel are relocating to the USA (brain drain)

chopnaira:
All black countries except maybe Bhutan, Cambodia, and Kyrgyzstan. Trump doing what he does best. He would go through with it..

They won't list South Africans too

Because that's majorly the home of "Whites" in Africa

America is living on past glory. Nothing dey there!

Nigeria is now seen as a terrorist state when the Nigerian Govt sided with Terrorists in Iran.

But I pray Trump realizes that the Government's stance on this does not in any way to reflect the majority of the stance of Nigerians.

It's gonna be a good news to Big citizens like me; it will ginger the public office holders to repair whatever requires to be put in place...