Full List: President Trump Mulls Travel Ban on 43 Countries | United States President Donald Trump is considering imposing a travel ban on dozens of countries.
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In a report on Saturday, Reuters cited an internal memo and officials familiar with the matter.
The memo lists a total of 43 countries divided into three groups: red, orange, and yellow.
The list includes several African countries, with African economic powerhouses like Nigeria, South Africa, Algeria and Egypt were not included.
The red group consists of 11 countries- Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Cuba, Bhutan, Venezuela, North Korea, Yemen, and Somalia- whose nationals would be barred from entering the US.
The orange group includes 10 countries whose visas would be sharply restricted. They contain Russia, Belarus, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Pakistan, Laos, Turkmenistan, Haiti, and Eritrea.
The countries in the most recent group were given 60 days to address concerns.
The nations on the 22-country yellow list contain Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Vanuatu and Zimbabwe.
The New York Times had foremost reported the list of countries earmarked for the proposed visa ban.
However, an US official told Reuters that there could be varies on the list and that it was notwithstanding to be agreed by the administration, containing Marco Rubio, the secretary of state.
The proposal is portion of an immigration crackdown that Trump launched at the start of his second term in January.
ISLAND COUNTRIES SELLING CITIZENSHIP TARGETED
Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St.Lucia—island countries on the yellow list—are popular options for purchasing citizenship by investment.
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In 2023, the European Union (EU) deepened security concerns over the trade in ‘golden passports’ after finding that the Caribbean states sold citizenship to 88,000 individuals from nations like Iran, Nigeria, Russia and China.
The EU had disclosed it was seeking to review its visa-mechanism in countries that offer investor citizenship schemes to countries with corruption perception and poor human rights records.
Dominica, an island with a population of just over 70,000, had reportedly issued 34,500 passports as of 2023.
St Kitts and Nevis, with a population of 48,000, was disclosed to have issued 36,700 passports.
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Published 3/15/2025