{"id":6114,"date":"2026-01-23T11:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6114"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:24:06","slug":"us-will-suspend-immigrant-visa-processing-from-75-countries-over-public-assistance-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/23\/us-will-suspend-immigrant-visa-processing-from-75-countries-over-public-assistance-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"US will suspend immigrant visa processing from 75 countries over public assistance concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>the Trump administration suspended immigrant visa processing for citizens from 75 countries, citing concerns over &#8220;public assistance&#8221; and the potential financial burden on U.S. taxpayers. This sweeping executive action targets nations with high rates of citizens who utilize non-emergency government benefits, effectively halting a significant portion of legal immigration. The department said the suspension does not apply to non-immigrant (tourist\/business) visas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 16, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-immigration-visas-79909bd01e9e1e3dedde144f865a1b9d\">apnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Trump administration suspended immigrant visa processing for citizens from 75 countries, citing concerns over &#8220;public assistance&#8221; and the potential financial burden on U.S. taxpayers. This sweeping executive action targets nations with high rates of citizens who utilize non-emergency government benefits, effectively halting a significant portion of legal immigration. The department said the suspension does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration-and-integration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6118,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions\/6118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}