Andrew Sage

They talk about corruption.

They talk about places where birth certificates are just written by hand.

They talk about places where the government does not control all the territory, prevalence of crime, places which offer citizenship by investment without physical residence.

They also talk about some of these countries not being willing to accept their nationals to the U.S.

deports.

And again, visa overstay rates, right, which is what they spoke about last time.

What is getting less reporting, or at least was this morning when I looked, was that they have removed exemptions which existed for the previous 19.

These include family member visas, right?

So that means that, for instance, someone who could have themselves become a permanent resident or even a citizen now cannot stay.

bring a family member, say a spouse, a sibling, et cetera, across, even though those people were previously vetted.

And it appears there is certain categories of SIVs are exempt, but I believe not all SIVs.

So that's a special immigrant visa, right?

The vast bulk of SIVs will be Afghan people who worked with the U.S.

military in Afghanistan.

Right.

The 19 countries who are now partially restricted are, I'm just going to read them off, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, The Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

For some reason, the first five of these are underlined on the White House website.

I don't know if someone copied and pasted them across with hyperlinks.

I don't know.

I'm unable to work out why.