This move was much needed.
The Trump admin has halted all immigration applications from Afghan nationals.
The USCIS in a post on X, shared it has halted all reviews of immigration applications of Afghans until they are able to provide better vetting protocols.
Take a look:
Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols.
The protection and safety of our homeland and of the American people remains our singular focus and…
— USCIS (@USCIS) November 27, 2025
Full text:
Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols.
The protection and safety of our homeland and of the American people remains our singular focus and mission.
The move by the USCIS comes just moments after President trump called for all Afghan’s allowed into the U.S. under Biden to be reexamined.
Watch President Trump here:
Backup here if needed:
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump says that EVERY SINGLE AFGHANI brought in under Biden will be RE-EXAMINED
“We are NOT going to put up with assaults on law and order by people who shouldn’t even be in our country!”
“We must now reexamine every single alien who has entered our… pic.twitter.com/9LCFWSWFKG
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 27, 2025
Axios provided further details on the move by the Trump admin:
The Trump administration suspended all immigration applications from Afghan nationals with immediate effect on Wednesday night following a shooting in D.C. that critically injured two West Virginia National Guard members.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ announcement came soon after President Trump in a video address vowed to “re-examine every single” immigrant who had entered the U.S. from Afghanistan during the Biden administration, after confirming that the shooting suspect is an Afghan national who arrived in 2021.
The Trump administration says the suspect arrived under former President Biden’s “Operation Allies Welcome” program, which was designed to support vulnerable Afghan refugees following the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
“Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols,” the USCIS said on X.
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