The United States of America has announced plans to review green cards issued to nationals of 19 countries as part of a broad review of immigration records with Nigeria excluded.
The Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Joe Edow, made this know in a post on X on Thursday.
According to available information, the move is part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants following the shooting of two National Guard members by a suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, from Afghanistan.
Edow wrote: “At the direction of @POTUS, I have directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern.
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“The protection of this country and of the American people remains paramount, and the American people will not bear the cost of the prior administration’s reckless resettlement policies.
“American safety is non negotiable.”
The 19 countries include Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, and Haiti.
Others are Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.
The USCIS said when vetting immigrants from those 19 countries, the agency will now take into consideration “negative, country specific factors”, which includes whether the country is able “to issue secure identity documents”.
