The Trump administration is pausing all immigration applications for people from the 19 countries it deemed "high-risk" that were already subject to U.S. travel restrictions imposed in June.

According to a Department of Homeland Security memo posted Tuesday on the website of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the measure affects people from Venezuela, Cuba , Burundi, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan , Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti , Iran , Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen .

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"USCIS has considered that this direction may result in delay to the adjudication of some pending applications and has weighed that consequence against the urgent

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