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Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by ProfDumbledor(op): 7:55pm On Jun 14, 2025
Whahala dey oo!


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/

Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by chopnaira: 8:01pm On Jun 14, 2025
All black countries except maybe Bhutan, Cambodia, and Kyrgyzstan. Trump doing what he does best. He would go through with it..
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by slimfit1(m): 9:13pm On Jun 14, 2025
Warning start repairing your country and your continent.
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by WizardOfNG: 9:18pm On Jun 14, 2025
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.
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by SarkinYarki: 9:23pm On Jun 14, 2025
And today useless govt decided to condemn the attack on Iran
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by tunary(m): 10:01pm On Jun 14, 2025
This will be a very very good news if its true
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by RenoOkriTheGoat: 10:02pm On Jun 14, 2025
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Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by SEGLIZ: 10:02pm On Jun 14, 2025
SarkinYarki:
And today useless govt decided to condemn the attack on Iran
exactly the fall out for condemning Israel attack on Iran.
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by BlocksNG(m): 10:02pm On Jun 14, 2025
better. End Sars v2 will set things straight.
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by Evergreen4(m):
He should target our political office holders both past and present including their families and cronies
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by Iseoluwani: 10:02pm On Jun 14, 2025
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
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by Melagros(m): 10:02pm On Jun 14, 2025
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
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by MrPresident1: 10:03pm On Jun 14, 2025
President Trump please don't do this we beg you in the mighty name of Jesus
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by jamafa: 10:03pm On Jun 14, 2025
SarkinYarki:
And today useless govt decided to condemn the attack on Iran
Shey nah Nigeria government cause that one??
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by UkoAnnang(m): 10:03pm On Jun 14, 2025
cheesy

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
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by crossbreedwears(m): 10:04pm On Jun 14, 2025
Less than 4 years from now, he will leave office and the next president will reverse most of his stupid policies
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by ALISMILE(m): 10:04pm On Jun 14, 2025
The brain drain should end

Thank you Trump

This is long awaited
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by PlanetZero: 10:04pm On Jun 14, 2025
Don't say, do, or THREATEN to do anything that's detrimental to the security, success, or reputation of Nairaland
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by Nobody: 10:04pm On Jun 14, 2025
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
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by Thundafireseun: 10:04pm On Jun 14, 2025
Sincerely speaking… we don’t care …. Iran is preparing to bomb America along side Israel

If Trump likes he should restrict all blacks and black African countries from going to Heaven
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by VaginaAcademic: 10:04pm On Jun 14, 2025
Mumu Trump Nigerians are actually doing the USA a big favour with the way our medical personnel are relocating to the USA (brain drain)
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by Teebest01: 10:05pm On Jun 14, 2025
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
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by casualobserver: 10:06pm On Jun 14, 2025
America is living on past glory. Nothing dey there!
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by Moniter0: 10:07pm On Jun 14, 2025
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.
Re: Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by larryeffizy1(m): 10:08pm On Jun 14, 2025
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...
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