{"id":1327090,"date":"2025-11-29T22:33:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/us-suspends-visa-and-asylum-applications-for-afghan-citizens-reasons-given\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T22:33:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:33:28","slug":"us-suspends-visa-and-asylum-applications-for-afghan-citizens-reasons-given","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/us-suspends-visa-and-asylum-applications-for-afghan-citizens-reasons-given\/","title":{"rendered":"US suspends visa and asylum applications for Afghan citizens: reasons given"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States has suspended all asylum and visa applications from Afghan citizens, following a shooting near the White House and President Donald Trump’s tougher immigration policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by the Washington Post<\/a> .<\/p>\n

The decision covers all applications filed by Afghan citizens, regardless of their status or reason for applying, the statement said. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow said the process has been temporarily suspended.<\/p>\n

“Application processing is suspended until officials can ensure the maximum possible vetting and selection of each foreign national,” Joseph Edlow said.<\/p>\n

The US State Department separately said the suspension also applies to all visas, noting that visas will not be issued even to applicants traveling on Afghan passports.<\/p>\n

The journalistic material notes that this decision was made after several public statements by President Donald Trump on social media. In these posts, he criticized migrants, commented on Democratic Party policies, and stated the need for changes in the field of immigration.<\/p>\n

Journalists emphasize that the suspension could affect a significant number of applicants who were in the final stages of document processing.<\/p>\n

What preceded this?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The decision follows a series of tough statements by President Donald Trump on immigration policy. He has vowed to “permanently stop” immigration from what he has called “third world countries.” His comments come amid heightened anti-immigration rhetoric following the attack on two National Guard soldiers near the White House, although the president has not directly mentioned the incident.<\/p>\n

On the evening of November 26, a shooting occurred near the White House, injuring two US National Guard soldiers. It was later revealed that 20-year-old Sarah Backstrom died in hospital. Her colleague, 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, was seriously injured and remains under medical supervision.<\/p>\n

The suspect in the shooting is an Afghan national, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, who arrived in the United States in September 2021, a month after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan was completed. Sources told the Washington Post that he underwent a thorough background check by counterterrorism authorities before arriving.<\/p>\n

The head of #AfghanEvac, an organization that helps Afghans who supported the United States during the two-decade war, criticized the administration’s new moves, saying the decision violates federal law and existing judicial rules.<\/p>\n

“This is a deliberate abandonment of our wartime allies and a violation of America’s word,” the head of the organization said.<\/p>\n

It was previously reported that the administration of US President Donald Trump is preparing to deport Ukrainians<\/a> who have final deportation orders. According to diplomats, among them are approximately eighty Ukrainian citizens.<\/p>\n

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The United States has suspended all asylum and visa applications from Afghan citizens, following a shooting near the White House and President Donald Trump’s tougher immigration policies. This is reported by the Washington Post . The decision covers all applications filed by Afghan citizens, regardless of their status or reason for applying, the statement said. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":62678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1327090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}