NY TIMES: The administration has enacted a suspension on the approval of almost all type of visas for Palestinian passport holders.
NY Times: The new measures were laid out in an August 18 cable sent by the State Department headquarters to all U.S. embassies and consulates, and would prohibit Palestinians, including the diaspora, from entering the United States on various types of non-immigrant visas.
NY Times: The change will affect visas granted for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives, and business travel, at least temporarily. The restrictions cover anyone holding only a Palestinian passport; they do not apply to Palestinians with dual nationalities using other passports, or those who have already obtained visas.
NY Times: US Consulates were told to invoke section 221-G of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 to refuse visitor visas to anyone using a Palestinian passport in applications. The move is tantamount to a blanket rejection of Palestinian visa requests, according to former US officials.
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The Trump administration has enacted a sweeping suspension of approvals of almost all types of visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders, according to American officials.
The new policy goes beyond the restrictions announced by U.S. officials recently on visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza. Last week, the State Department also said
it would not issue visas to Palestinian officials to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York next month.
The more sweeping measures, laid out in an Aug. 18 cable sent by State Department headquarters to all U.S. embassies and consulates, would also prevent many Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in the Palestinian diaspora from entering the United States on various types of nonimmigrant visas, according to four U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.
The new measures affect visas for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives and business travel, at least temporarily.
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