US President Donald Trump has banned or restricted visas for travel to the United States from eight countries.
This is the next step in what began as his travel ban from six Muslim nations.
The new presidential order keeps restrictions on five of those six countries — Iran, Lybya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, lifts restrictions on visitors from the Sudan and adds new restrictions on visitors and immigrants from Chad, North Korea and Venezuela.
Trump has also blocked the issuance of all visas from North Korea and Syria, while for Iran, nearly all visas were blocked except those for students and exchange visitors.
Issuance of all immigrant visas and business and tourist visas was suspended from Chad, Libya and Yemen.
The order also blocks visas for government officials on business or tourist travel from Venezuela.
For Somalia, the order blocks visas for immigrants and provides that other travellers will be subject to extra scrutiny.
The restrictions take effect October 18 for Chad, North Korea and Venezuela.
For the five remaining countries, which were part of the original executive order, the exceptions to the visa ban imposed by the Supreme Court for close relatives will remain until October 18.
Source: NBC
