Earlier this year, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced an indefinite pause on the adjudication of immigration benefit requests for individuals from thirty-nine African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries. This announcement was mandated by Executive Order No. 14161, issued January 20 2025. A further group of nations was added to the travel ban on Presidential proclamation 10998 on December 16, 2025. Overall, applications from citizens of 39 nations were placed on indefinite hold and persons from those countries were forbidden from travelling to the United States.
To the great embarrassment of American patriots and lovers of the constitution everywhere, “[O]n December 10, 2026, while speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania, the President described the Travel Ban as ‘a permanent pause on Third World migration, including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries.’” Dorcas Int’l Inst. of R.I. v. U.S. Citizenship & Immigr. Servs., No. 1:26-cv-00132-JJM-PAS (D.R.I. June 5, 2026)
“[T]he Benefits Hold Policy, the Global Asylum Hold Policy, the Comprehensive Re-Review Policy, and the Country-Specific Factors Policy—are declared unlawful and are vacated and set aside.” Dorcas Int’l Inst. of R.I. v. U.S. Citizenship & Immigr. Servs., No. 1:26-cv-00132-JJM-PAS (D.R.I. June 5, 2026)