The Trump administration recently announced plans to expand its
travel ban to include six additional countries
The new order suspends immigrant visas for citizens of Nigeria,
Myanmar, Eritrea and Kyrgyzstan. Meanwhile, citizens from Sudan and
Tanzania are now barred from the U.S. diversity visa program.
Tourist, business and other non-immigrant travel visas will remain
unaffected, however.
Why expand the travel ban?
The administration cited security concerns as the rationale
behind the expanded ban, pointing to insufficient information
sharing from the countries' governments about criminal and
terrorism data, a lack of electronic passport systems and issues
with Interpol reporting methods.
