By Humeyra Pamuk
Washington (Reuters) -The Trump government is considering giving radical travel restrictions for the citizens of dozens of countries as part of a new ban, according to sources that are familiar with the issue and an internal memo seen by Reuters.
The memo mentions a total of 41 countries divided into three separate groups. The first group of 10 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Cuba and Noord -Korea, would be set for a complete visa suspension.
In the second group, five countries – Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar and Zuid -Sudan – would be confronted with partial suspensions that would influence tourist and student visa and other immigrant visa, with a few exceptions.
In the third group, a total of 26 countries, including Wit -Russia, Pakistan and Turkmenistan, would be taken into account, among other things, for a partial suspension of the American visa issue if their governments “do not make any efforts to tackle shortcomings within 60 days,” the memo said.
An American officer who spoke on condition of anonymity warned that there could be changes in the list and that it still had to be approved by the administration, including the American Foreign Minister Marco Rubio.
The New York Times reported for the first time on the list of countries.
The move goes back to President Donald Trump's first term ban on travelers from the seven majority-Muslim countries, a policy that went through different iterations before it was confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2018.
On January 20, Trump issued an executive order that an intensified security study from foreigners asking for admission to the US to detect the threats of national security.
On March 21, that order has had a list of countries submitted by countries from which travel must be partially or completely suspended because their “screening and screening information is so short”.
The Trump guideline is part of an immigration law law that he launched at the start of his second term.
He viewed his plan in a speech of October 2023 and promised to limit people from the Gaza Strip, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and “Anywhere Else who threatens our safety”.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to a request for comments from Reuters.
(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk; Writing by Costas Pitasding by Sam Holmes)
